Nvidia overclocking procedure

[Melectricus]

I'm generally confused on how to ramp up a nvidia card to find a 'sweet spot'. I've used various oc'g programs that allow you to vary core and memory frequency. But, I just up both settings the same percentage. I have 3 slow cards: gforce 2 ultra ( kills me to think I paid over $300 for it years ago ), gforce 3 ( Tigerdirect rebate never came ) and a geforce 4 mx440se ( for a cheap - non gaming build). I'm upgrading later in the year on two cards and donating one system, but want to learn how to better play with them. I just can't seem to find some "user experience" article that pulls it together for me without randomly trying various permutations.

So here's my question: is there a procedure to raise one setting first then the other or however. Or do you just do what I do and raise both the same. All three cards crap out at about 9% oc after an hour or so hard use, and all are stable at 6-7%. If anyone knows of a good article or procedure, I'd appreciate it. thanx.

 

[modedepe]

You should raise one at a time, so you can tell when one is stable.

Decide on the increments you want to go up in, say 5mhz. After each increase, you should test it. If it's stable you can try raising it another 5 mhz. If it's not stable go back to the speed where it was last stable and increase 1mhz at a time. Just keep doing this till you hit the max speed while maintaining stability. After you've overclocked one thing, go through the same process with the other.