Overclocking Video Cards: How to go about it?

[Prince of Persia]

Geforce3 is already outdated, so I want to overclock this card as much as I can. I have the Gainward Geforce3, should I take a big leap and if i see artifacts go down or should I do small increments.

 

[Duvie]

I would go in small increments and start to see when they do appear...Then I would look at how high I can increase just the core and how high I can increase the memory to find the limit of each.....

IE the radeon 8500dv comes in like 215 core/195 mem though rumors have it the core can go to retail levels of radeon 8500 at 280 but memory can't go much past 215....My radeon le comes in 250/250 and I can raise the core to about 280-285 but the ram will not go much past 260. I know retail ATI 8500 cards do better and may be the quality of ram this manufacturer chose. Gainwards, especially the golden samples are made for the ocing and usually have some of the lowest ns memory in that vid cards class...

Once you hit limit you may want to invest in some ramsinks and a better hsf cooler for the gpu. I have noticed Gainward does do a nice job on theer cooling but I have seen ppl mod them and get a little bit more. Ramsinks if not already available may gain you another 5-10 percent in memory speed.

 

[ErikaeanLogic]

One of the main advantages to participating in an online community is that we can take advantage of the fact that our questions have usually been asked before, and that by utilizing the Search function, we can find the answers to these questions.

BTW, wrong forum. You should try the Video Forum.

Good luck!

E-link-aeanLogic

 

[Prince of Persia]

I know sorry about that I searched afterwards and found out about it.
My Geforce 3 is running at 235/510 right now smoothly! Any idea on how the geforce3 can go?

 

[Telsari]

Just push it up in small 5Mhz+ increments and test in something like UT2003 or the like. Check for artifacting.

I have a WinFast GeForce 2 MX400 32MB. It came at 175Mhz, 166Mhz mem. I overclocked it to 200Mhz/200Mhz. Runs quite fine... in my experience (and in other peoples' too) you can easily get a overclock yield of at least 11%.

 

[fluxquantum]

my gainward geforce 3 ti-200 128 MB golden sample can only reach 230/500 with artifacts. don't understand. did i get ripped off? if i go a little beyond that, say 235/510 it locks up on me.

 

[kingbob]

It could be that he has better airflow in his case...