Can those of you overclocking your Visiontek GF3 Ti200 video cards please report your results?
I'm testing the overclocking potential of my cards to see if I can "delay" upgrading my video cards (I have 2 pcs with these same cards and I'd prefer to wait until after X-mas to upgrade them both
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Reportedly...this card has been successfully overclocked (when the card first came out by a "review" web-site) to 230 Mhz for the core and 500 Mhz for the memory. I've read in the past that these specific cards where generally good overclocking and commonly were able to hit GF3 Ti500 speeds. The default settings are 175 MHz core and 400 MHz memory. The core has a HS/F and the memory chips have heatsinks (aluminum I believe).
I don't want to "burn" up these cards because I have many nephews that I can pass them to when I do upgrade my cards (i.e., I'd rather overclock them less and pass them to a relative than to overclock them to the max and burn them up within 6 months).
I'm running mine at 205 Mhz core and 460 Mhz memory at the moment and watching for any problems while playing BF 1942 at res. of ~800x1000 with remaining details on high (i.e., 4x AA, etc.).
I have ~7 fans in each case (2 intakes, 1 exhaust, etc.) and the room the PCs are in is the coolest room in the house (downright CHILLY as my place is a colonial
Also...the cards have been "in-use" for ~2 years, is overclocking an "old" card generally "worse" than overclocking a "new" card (i.e., do computer chips retain any kind of "memory" with regard to the frequency they have been running at?). I understand that my cards are "old" and therefore, overclocking them will likely "decrease" the life they have left in them (same as overclocking a new would do).
Thanks,
Bud
I'm testing the overclocking potential of my cards to see if I can "delay" upgrading my video cards (I have 2 pcs with these same cards and I'd prefer to wait until after X-mas to upgrade them both
.Reportedly...this card has been successfully overclocked (when the card first came out by a "review" web-site) to 230 Mhz for the core and 500 Mhz for the memory. I've read in the past that these specific cards where generally good overclocking and commonly were able to hit GF3 Ti500 speeds. The default settings are 175 MHz core and 400 MHz memory. The core has a HS/F and the memory chips have heatsinks (aluminum I believe).
I don't want to "burn" up these cards because I have many nephews that I can pass them to when I do upgrade my cards (i.e., I'd rather overclock them less and pass them to a relative than to overclock them to the max and burn them up within 6 months).
I'm running mine at 205 Mhz core and 460 Mhz memory at the moment and watching for any problems while playing BF 1942 at res. of ~800x1000 with remaining details on high (i.e., 4x AA, etc.).
I have ~7 fans in each case (2 intakes, 1 exhaust, etc.) and the room the PCs are in is the coolest room in the house (downright CHILLY as my place is a colonial
Also...the cards have been "in-use" for ~2 years, is overclocking an "old" card generally "worse" than overclocking a "new" card (i.e., do computer chips retain any kind of "memory" with regard to the frequency they have been running at?). I understand that my cards are "old" and therefore, overclocking them will likely "decrease" the life they have left in them (same as overclocking a new would do).
Thanks,
Bud
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