How to OC your recent video cards!!!

[Eagle Eye]

Para Franck it really starts with card itself on the manufacturing level, cheaper card cheaper parts. If every video card was built equal we would all be running inexpensive videocards at the highend level, the reason your overclock might not stay stable anymore is the stress on the components not capable of handling it for extended periods of time or its operating near or at its limits. I honestly believe that theres a limitation of to every part to a computer and with all stressing and overclocking that has become very popular its pretty simple to see that the manufacturers have responded with higher qaulity parts. Take a look at your average motherboard we talk more and more about the qaulity of solid state caps, better VRM or ferite chokes and even the caps used in powersupplies its all relative in the end because in turn the more expensive boards tend perform better then the ones without the better parts especially when we overclock.

[CTA]

Originally Posted by enaberif

Nope.

Its absolutely an article I would not pay attention to.

If you want to know how to do it properly then ask.. theres enough people around who has done this properly.

please post a very good article (link) or post your own article....

i am interesting to know new method of OC the video card... i mean i never tried OC before... because of my 6 years old gaming/entertainment computer (of course it works very well)

[AFG34]

hopefully i can get a few more fps from my 3850 :)

[mchutch]

Originally Posted by enaberif

Third DON'T use nTune.

Agreed....

[nige]

i used the overdrive tab on my catalyst software to bump my 4850 up a little bit. I will make 1 change, then go play one of my games for a few hours to see if i can make the card trip up and crash the game. It takes a long time and i still haven't found the limit of the card. I like how they added a fan controller to the overdrive tab, so if you gpu starts to get a little warm, you can turn up the fan speed and cool it back down again. I haven't tried overclocking my cpu, but once i find the limit of the GPU, i will start to tinker with the cpu.