12.41 Detonators and overclocking GeForce2 GTS Win98SE

[Trentelshark]

Howdy,

I followed the CoolBits tutorials on the anandtech web page, rebooted, and went to my video cards additional properties. To my surprise, there was no overclocking utility in there. Did NVIDIA change the way that you enable CoolBits, or did I most likely type something wrong. Below is a step by step of what I did. I am using a 3D Annihaltor Pro 32 on Win98 SE Detonator 12.41.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/NVIDIA_CORPORATION/GLOBAL/
Added: NVTweak key
Added: DWORD CoolBits under NVTweak
Changed: DWORD value to 3 (hexidecimal)
Rebooted

No changes under additional properties. Still the same old ones.

Thanks in advance

Shark

 

[Brian48]

Coolbits has been disabled in the v12.41 drivers. Not a big deal to re-enable since it's only one file. Download the beta v12.40's (or similiar v12.x) from one of the many nVidia fan sites and just copy/paste the nvcpl.dll file into your c:\windows\system directory (overwriting the existing). This will allow the hardware overclocking slider to be visible.

 

[Trentelshark]

Just out of curiosity, what kind of effect will overclocking the RAM by 50 MHz and GPU by 10 MHz have on the lifetime of the card? Am I going to seriously kill it within the next couple of months?

Shark

 

[OmegaXero]

No, your card should be fine. Just make sure that the fan keeps working. I run a GeForce 2MX and, by default, the card is clocked 175MHz core speed and 166MHz memory speed. I have it overlocked to 200 core and 200 memory just fine. Although I do have a good amount of airflow in my case (4 80MM 41CFM fans) I still have a fan on the card itself as well. If you are concerned about the overall life of your card the most important part to remember is to keep that baby as cool as possible.