8800gt Overclocking method

[valo123]

I just purchased a BFG 8800gt from best buy about three weeks ago and have been extremely careful with overclocking it as I am new to this whole OC thing. First I'd like to say that my 8800gt was idling at 49C with the original HSF when i first installed it at 625/1565/1800.

Now I have been increasing the core clock in increments of 4-6 each day, once a day, since I purchased it. I don't know why I chose to do it this way, just seemed like overclocking it all in one day would pose as a bit of an overload to the card. I felt as though the card would get used to the OC if i were to slowly introduce the higher clock frequencies.

Getting to the point...I know the card has a bad rep of overheating but under my overclocks of 4-6 each day (i have the shader and core linked) my card as it stands today at (702/1758/1900) is idling at 51C, only 2 degrees more than day one, and is at the most 62C under full load.

Has anyone else tried OCing like this? And if so what are your temps? I have a well ventilated case (antec 900) but I'm just shocked at the minimum temp rise of this card even after I've significantly overclocked it. Does anyone care to share their temperatures before and after overclocking so I can compare? With or without stock HSF.

Thanks


I forgot to mention that I have my gpu fan running at 35% up until 55C then it switches to 45% then at 60 it switches to 60%. If it happens to get to 60C (which it rarely does) it cools down within a matter of seconds with the fan on 60%

 

[Syntax Error]

Search for threads referring to 8800GT overclocks, it's somewhere around. It'll have a lot of information you would look for.

I run an EVGA 8800GT, I overclocked it on the first day from 650/900 to 720/975.

 

[valo123]

Thanks, I'm mostly just curious about this particular method. I haven't seen anyone discuss over clocking over a duration in the thread you're referring to.

 

[error8]

I really don't see any sense in your method. If your card would reach 800 mhz on the core, you would need a whole month to get there and I'm pretty sure that nobody has tried doing this before. And temperature during overclocking doesn't increase too much, except when you volt mod the card.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Agree with error8. Clocking it up slow is no better than doing it in one night. You find out immediately if it's going to be stable and run hot or not. Just clock it up, run some sort of benchmark to stress it, and you know right then. If you had clocked it up to where you have it now the first night you had it, you'd still be running fine and at the same temp.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: valo123
Thanks, I'm mostly just curious about this particular method. I haven't seen anyone discuss over clocking over a duration in the thread you're referring to.

Because there's no reason to do so. If the card will reach 800 mhz, it'll reach 800mhz the day you bought it, the day after, a month after, etc...

There aren't moving parts in a video card that need to be broken in like a car engine or something. Which is where I think you're getting this idea from.

The only possibly compelling reason to hold off on overclocking was if i you reseated the heatsink and were waiting for the thermal paste to cure (and even then that's a stretch). But since you're using the stock heatsink and have done nothing to it, there's no reason to wait.

 

[Tempered81]

how can i monitor the temp of my 8800gt while ingame in crysis or cod4? is there an osd in rivatuner or everest?

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
how can i monitor the temp of my 8800gt while ingame in crysis or cod4? is there an osd in rivatuner or everest?

There's a temp monitor in rivatuner that will graph temps over time. You can just run it while you play and see the results after. If you want to monitor in real time, open a temp monitor app and play your game in windowed mode.

 

[Chriscross3234]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
how can i monitor the temp of my 8800gt while ingame in crysis or cod4? is there an osd in rivatuner or everest?

Rivatuner does have a OSD temperature monitor... access it in the hardware monitoring settings for core temperature.

 

[pcmax]

Originally posted by: Syntax Error
Search for threads referring to 8800GT overclocks, it's somewhere around. It'll have a lot of information you would look for.

I run an EVGA 8800GT, I overclocked it on the first day from 650/900 to 720/975.

You sir freak me out. You have a core2 begging to be overclocked running at stock but then you overclock your vid card from day one :/

 

[valo123]

I suppose theoretically it wouldn't matter if you did it in one day or over a period of a month. It just seemed odd that my temps didn't really change.

Also, i saw someone mention that overclocking serves only for benchmarking purposes and doesn't matter when you're actually running a game, is this true?

 

[Syntax Error]

Originally posted by: pcmax

Originally posted by: Syntax Error
Search for threads referring to 8800GT overclocks, it's somewhere around. It'll have a lot of information you would look for.

I run an EVGA 8800GT, I overclocked it on the first day from 650/900 to 720/975.

You sir freak me out. You have a core2 begging to be overclocked running at stock but then you overclock your vid card from day one :/

Hah, yeah. I'm not professing to know everything there is about overclocking, but a combination of laziness and ignorance is keeping me from overclocking my C2D right now.