Overclocking your video card
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A friend of mine asked me if it was possible to overclock your video card and if it was safe to do so.Well obviously pushing something harder then it was intended for could cause problems like overheating (which is why I installed an aftermarket VGA cooler on my card).
Anyways, I sometimes overclock my ATI X1600 Pro using the Catalyst Control center, "ATI OVERDRIVE" feature. I like it because it can help determine a "safe" overclocking mark for you. I have had success with this feature in XP, but overclocking the same card in Vista caused screen artifacts. I wrote a post on the artifacts, click here to read it.
For NVIDIA based cards, I pointed him to RivaTuner, I think this is a great utility for overclocking. I never used it for my Radeon cards, but it is suppose to do a great job with ATI cards as well.
With my experience using NVIDIA cards, it worked very well.
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exactly, Thats how I bought my card is overclocked when I bought it ^_^ I reccomend EVGA cards to ANYBODY looking for GOOD low profile performance cards and for amazing air cooling cards if you dont care about the size look at sparkle cards the heatsinks are HUGE and they have some pretty good designs, I believe i was lookin at a 9800 from sparkle with a lcd screen on the side displaying temp in celcius so it would be useful if you had a plexi side panel.
My video card was the shit in 2006! haha
This is why you buy a GOOD video card and don`t bother overclocking it. When will you kids learn, spend the extra money and buy the best!
Although my card is overclocked to 720 core clock standard for a 8600 is about 540-580 or so i have a 8600 gts but something different about my card is i have a low profile stock cooler on it and it runs 45 or under idle and 52 or so playing DoD:S and about 62 in Cod4 with about 120 fps constant all on high.
it depends to the extent
Actually I see screen artifacts with my card being stock in windows xp etc... bushes in DoD:S are rainbow colored or white colored sometimes even checkered etc.