Right, ive been having a go at overclocking this. Whats the best way of stability testing this? What programs can i use? I have ATITool, but Vista wont let it play. No signed drivers. Ive been running the Scan For Artifacts, and my GPU temps go up to 81Degrees (GPU@621mhz, RAM@918mhz). So its obviously loading it. Whats the safe temps etc? Any pointers? There isnt a graphics card overclocking stickied . . .
Overclocking an 8800GTS
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Yeah, these cards go up to 100 safely (according to NVidia).
The problem is that the stock cooler is staying at low rpm
get rivatuner overclock and setup a fan profile.
Mine never goes over 62c under load with the fan at 75%
http://home.comcast.net/~boogieman1954/8800 fan speed guide.htm
get rivatuner overclock and setup a fan profile.
Mine never goes over 62c under load with the fan at 75%
http://home.comcast.net/~boogieman1954/8800 fan speed guide.htm
so far my gts 320 goes to 655 and 975
i have cut off the bottom plastic section of the cooler and purchased a blower(sucker actually) which matches up very nicely to the now exposed heat sink section.
temps are 47idle and 60-66load maybe upto 70 on a hot day
oh, also i have reapplied some zalman paste which knocked off 3 degrees
good luck.
i have cut off the bottom plastic section of the cooler and purchased a blower(sucker actually) which matches up very nicely to the now exposed heat sink section.
temps are 47idle and 60-66load maybe upto 70 on a hot day
oh, also i have reapplied some zalman paste which knocked off 3 degrees
good luck.
i use ntune in vista 64 bit, and your right it doesnt keep your settings, but you can save a custom profile, and just load it when you want to play games etc.. thats what i do.. takes 2 seconds once its booted up.
mines oc'd to 625 / 850 but it works fine at 650 / 900 too, just i dont really need to push it to the max, as a casual gamer.
under load oc'd im sitting at 69 - 72 degrees but i have a 120mm fan slap bang next to it in the case.
mines oc'd to 625 / 850 but it works fine at 650 / 900 too, just i dont really need to push it to the max, as a casual gamer.
under load oc'd im sitting at 69 - 72 degrees but i have a 120mm fan slap bang next to it in the case.
Neal said:
Ive tried this with my vista x64 and ntune, i can overclock and adjust the fan speeds.
Ive saved away a new profile but when I load a profile up it doesnt change any of the settings, overclock and fan speeds stay the same. Ive checked and the profile is saved away with the new settings but it just doesnt do anything when i load it back up?
