AGP voltage and overclocking

[Munky]

I've searched around, and it seems like nobody mentioned this, but when you OC your video cards, do most people raise the AGP voltage? Because I installed an aftermarket cooler on my card, and so it gives me more room to play around with OC settings, and I found that raising the voltage from 1.5 (stock) to 1.65 lets me OC higher before I get artifacts (like 445 vs 460). Does anyone else do this, or is there a risk of damaging your card if you raise the voltage?

 

[JBT]

It really shouldn't help your OC unless you AGP freqency is out of spec. Also supposidly it is dangerous to run the AGP voltage at highier than defualt though I have NEVER actually heard of a card dying.

 

[bjc112]

1.6v definitely won't hurt anything, and i typically put it there for stability reasons.

Even if i don't overclock a system, and it has 2 sticks of ram, i bump Vdimm to 2.6 or 2.7..

Just one of those things I guess..


OP: It's nice that you are seeing some rewarding gains from doing so..

460 is nice.. what's the card?

 

[Munky]

The card is a 9800p, with a zalman vf700. Pretty much everything in my system is OC'd.