MSI 6600GT Overclocked or NOT?

[LiquidAnimosity]

First of all I've read somewhere people use coolbits to oc their msi 6600gt. Does ocing increase the cards performance noticeably? When I goto properties I have a section where it says MSI Overclock or something and all you gotta do is drag a bar and put apply to the mhz you want to run at. Is this actually ocing the card or some bs to make you think that you are? gives me 3 options 2d - 300mhz 3d- 500mz core 900mhz!

Thanks for your help!

 

[NatePo717]

yes that will overclock the card. NVIDIA cards are really simple to overclock. If you really want to feel like your overclocking the card get RivaTuner. That has a lot of different options for graphics settings and you can put in different game profiles and everything.

 

[formulav8]

I was messing with a customers card and it oced VERY nice. IT is a MSI 6600GT PCI-Express.

Core was watercooled and clocked at 604mhz

Memory didn't have anything on it and clocked up to 1299mhz.

Almost 9% increase on the core, and 23% increase in the memory.

Your memory is probably the same 2ns memory that the 1ghz memory cards came with. At least a Rosewill brand that was AGP was factory clocked at 900mhz but easily clocked to 1ghz. I didn't try higher. It did have the 2ns memory on it too.

I don't think it can hurt to try. But of course do it at your own risk.


Jason

 

[kmmatney]

I use coolbits to overclock my MSI 6600GT. My benchmark scores increase when I overclock, but I'm not sure the difference is noticable in games.

I get artifiacts if I up the core to 575. You should be able to get to at least my settings, though. 550 for the core, and 1050 MHz for the memory.