Video Card Overclocking Guide, for those who are new to it

get on to http://www.futuremark.com/
General heat limit: Depends...varies from card to card..probly something like 60degree load temp...
Good program to OC: Rivatuner

jjcom

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Originally Posted by shadowing

Well, where's the link to dl the free version of 3dmark? And what's the general heat limit for most cards? And what's a good program to oc the 6800 series?

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Riva Tuner
Use this to unlock pipes if its a non GT non ultra if they are usable.

3dmark03
and
'05
and
'01
'01 is more CPU dependant vs. 03 and 05 which are more GC dependant.
Hope this helps

its my memory thats giving me trouble. :( need to get my room nice and cold again sometime for a benchmark run :D

jjcom

Just to add Real time rendering this thing heats my 6800 up 6 or C over anything else I've tried..plus it looks pretty sweet :cool: This has just been officially entered as one of my required stress testers....maybe even a new background/screensaver

What's the latest nVidia driver out there? I think my driver is a bit outdated :(

I use 66.93 but there are newer versions I believe...beta are good to look into as well.

jjcom

I wanna say 66.97 are latest fully official but can't recall. go to guru3d and this page has all the nVidia drivers. When you click on one it will say if it's been okd for all cards or the quadro server cards...but you can usually use those anyways. Up into the 7x.xxs now.