Questions on overclocking a G8

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Hello there, as you can see in my signature i am going to be buying a G8 and currently am looking at the BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express).

However, i was wondering do you think it would be better if i went for a cheaper card in the series and over clocked it to get the same result?

If so, which card (including make) do you think is better for over clocking?

What would happen to the warranty if i did over clock?

Also, how hard is it to overclock a G8?


Thankyou for your time :)
 
A good warrenty is always worth looking at, BFG, OCZ and EVGA offer lifetime warrenty's which are great if you intend to keep the card for a while (and when it comes to selling it for that matter).
As overclocking is done with software, their is no way a company can tell that you have changed the core or mem timings.
Iverclocking these cards is easy and i would say that Riva Tuner and ATI Tool are prolly the two best programs. Not all cards will hit the same OC but some companies do cherry pick there core/mem. Ive heard that OCZ only pick decent cores and mine has hit good speeds on water (in sig) but these are never guarenteed (unless buying a pre overclocked card).
I went for the cheapest i could get at the time (OCZ at about £350iirc) and overclocked it.
Tis always a bit of a gamble but you are getting a fantastically fast card when its at stock.
 
Well if you buy a pre-overclocked card, you have a warranty to make sure it works and if it doesn't, it'll be fixed. No need for you to worry about overclocking it yourself at all. Also the shaders have been overclocked too, and from what i've read you can't actually do this yourself.

With a standard card you can get your card close to or faster than pre-overclocked cards, however there is no guarantee to how well you can overclock the GPU. You lose your warranty when you overclock, so thats something to be wary about if you value having a warranty. Plus you can't overclock the shaders (from what i've read).
 
Thankyou for the fast replies.


You see, id pay this much money for a card if i had to to get a card that will last a long time and hopefuly come down in price after the G9s. Btw, how much do you think the prices will come down by on the G8s?


So do you think i should just buy this card and not buy a cheaper one and over clock it? And is it possible for me to still overclock this card further? Because id be worried if its already overclocked that its already at the optimum speed and might do damage to it if i tried any further!



On a side note, what does "IIRC" mean? its bugging the hell out of me that i dont know it :)
 
BlackDragon said:
. You lose your warranty when you overclock, so thats something to be wary about if you value having a warranty. Plus you can't overclock the shaders (from what i've read).
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The shaders overclock automatically as you raise the speed of the Core, most warentees allow for overclocking and there is no way of them knowing if you have or havnt.
Why would a companies advertise a product as a great overclocker if they forbid you from doing so.
 
Thanks :)

Im curious as to what i do about ram. I was going to get 8500+ but will i notice a difference in speed over the 6400? all i seem to read is that 8500 is better for overclocking. But i could still overclock as well on 6400 if im overclocking a q6600?

Does the difference to 1066MHZ only affect overclocking?


Also, im told id need to run it in 1:1 ... buit does that mean that my ram wont be running at its full capacity because its running i a ratio of 1:1 to my cpu, which wont be running at 1066MHZ.
 
U can flash a standard g80 card with a pre-clocked cards bios in a couple of minutes, Or overclock with rivatuner to same speeds or above, all very easy to do :)

The shaders raise when u overclock the core, or u can set them to anything u like in the bios ;)
 
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