I have an ASUS Geforce 2 MX V7100 video card. I was bored the other day and wanted to enable the clock frequency and followed the directions given by Anantech's article link because I was curious as to what my video card's core clock and memory clock frequencies were. No serious. Yes, the temptation to overclock is there or else I wouldn't have read when it first came out and re-read the article just a few days ago. I have an AMD Duron 700 on an ASUS A7V board and the cpu was unlocked when my friend and I put the system together but I have not adjusted the settings. Anyway, I noticed within the article that it mentioned that the video card itself didn't have to have any active or passive cooling systems. And I noticed from dusting out my case that my video card did have a heat sink. And that made me wonder as to what settings my video card was set, comparable to someone who bought a system from a vender and wondering if the cpu was an overclocked one or not. Or close enough to that sensation.
I ran regedit and went to to the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\] and I couldn't follow instruction number 2 because there was already a key named NVTweak. I was able to follow directions 3, 4, and 5. However, within NVTweak, there were already two DWORD values, DesktopManager and QuickTweak. I rebooted and was able to pull up a similar menu. The picture from the article had a menu for Hardware Options. Mine's was a menu called Clock Frequencies. It was the same screen with a different name tag. However, when I clicked on the Allow clock frequency adjustments and clicked restart and restarted and went back to that menu, it didn't seem to have enabled it. I have since repeated the process a few times but still the same result. The system won't remember that I wish to enable the setting. I don't know if it was because my hardware failed the test. I don't see any reason why, but it could be a possibility. Or my other thought was that maybe the new nVidia Detonator XP v21.81 that I installed added those two DWORDS and disabled the ability to overclock, or made changes that conflicted with what I wanted to do and thus, I am unable to change things on my own. I don't know enough to tweak on my own so that's all that I've done. Anybody have an insights into this?
Psyche_Nemesis
I ran regedit and went to to the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\] and I couldn't follow instruction number 2 because there was already a key named NVTweak. I was able to follow directions 3, 4, and 5. However, within NVTweak, there were already two DWORD values, DesktopManager and QuickTweak. I rebooted and was able to pull up a similar menu. The picture from the article had a menu for Hardware Options. Mine's was a menu called Clock Frequencies. It was the same screen with a different name tag. However, when I clicked on the Allow clock frequency adjustments and clicked restart and restarted and went back to that menu, it didn't seem to have enabled it. I have since repeated the process a few times but still the same result. The system won't remember that I wish to enable the setting. I don't know if it was because my hardware failed the test. I don't see any reason why, but it could be a possibility. Or my other thought was that maybe the new nVidia Detonator XP v21.81 that I installed added those two DWORDS and disabled the ability to overclock, or made changes that conflicted with what I wanted to do and thus, I am unable to change things on my own. I don't know enough to tweak on my own so that's all that I've done. Anybody have an insights into this?
Psyche_Nemesis
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