Overclocking and Tearing

[12am]

Hi I have my gf2 gts overclocked to 230/400 ... now I get minor bits of (snow) little white dots on my screen they aren't too bad I can live with it.... (I can only see about 5-10 at a time)... now I know this is due to the ram overclocking... now what I want to know is will this damage my ram?? will exposing the hardware to these little blips fry my card in any concievable way?

 

[12am]

BuMp

 

[MilkPowderR]

It can.. if it's overclocked hard enough on the core and the memory to cause artifacts on the graphics. But it doesn't mean your card will die automatically. I would try clock down the memory until the artifacts go away and if your card freezes during gaming often, try clocking down the core to 220. have fun

 

[12am]

ok found the sweetspot... now I've heard bumping up the core over 215 won't do anything because of mem bandwith bottlenecks... is this true... have any of u experienced this?

 

[MilkPowderR]

<< ok found the sweetspot... now I've heard bumping up the core over 215 won't do anything because of mem bandwith bottlenecks... is this true... have any of u experienced this? >>




Yes u're correct. At least with the GF2 series cards don't get hardly performance improvement upping the Core speed from default. usually 210- 220 core is good spot. After that point, I get 0.1- 0.2 FPS increase on the Q3A if I only increase the core from 220 to 230. But the memory increasing at that rate give me extra 1.0+ FPS haha. My GTS 32mb is running at 220/370.