What is the absolute best overclock tool for NVIDIA cards? Specifically a Ti4200?

[Tnvolsfan]

Just wondered what everyone likes the most.

 

[Harabecw]

just download coolbits. it'll add the OC tab to the control panel.

 

[Tnvolsfan]

It works fine with XP?

 

[Harabecw]

good question. anyone with a GF card around?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Harabecw
good question. anyone with a GF card around?

no, we all burned our geforces when nvidia was caught cheating, we all went back to 3dfx cards

btw, coolbits works fine in xp

 

[Harabecw]

speaking of which, what was the V5 5500's memory bandwidth?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Harabecw
speaking of which, what was the V5 5500's memory bandwidth?

5.3GB/s

 

[Harabecw]

really? thats decent. but it only had 32MB of real memory, right? since the 64MB was split among the 2 chips.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Harabecw
really? thats decent. but it only had 32MB of real memory, right? since the 64MB was split among the 2 chips.

it varried depending on resoulition and colour dept. basically you had MORE than 32mb of memory but LESS than 64mb. The voodoo5 was really a great card at the time. and it would be great today if it wouldav had had hw T&L. now this wouldave been the card. 3dfx had planed on it arriving soon after the 5500. it wouldhave had about 11gb/s

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[Harabecw]

just read AT's article. first impression is that the V5 5500 totally sucks, even against the GF2.
Today that kind of memory sharing would be ridiculous. if you have games that use 80+ MB of textures today, you'd have to have something like 128MB PER CHIP. Also, its 2.7GB/sec per chip...I'm not sure if it really translates to 5.3GB/sec total.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Harabecw
just read AT's article. first impression is that the V5 5500 totally sucks, even against the GF2.
Today that kind of memory sharing would be ridiculous. if you have games that use 80+ MB of textures today, you'd have to have something like 128MB PER CHIP. Also, its 2.7GB/sec per chip...I'm not sure if it really translates to 5.3GB/sec total.

the chips had indepent sepearte 128-bit paths to the memory, so yes it has 5.3gb/sec. the card really shined in UT. check out these benchies, and it is not even running in glide mode

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[Tnvolsfan]

TC guys!!

What should AA and AF be set at for the Ti4200 and 64MB of ram? PNY Card.

In XP #4 did not work even after rebooting.
1) Doubleclick on the file: w2k-coolbits.reg
2) Click the start button icon on bottom left corner of screen
3) Select the "run" option
4) Type the following and hit the "ok"
rundll32.exe nvqtwk.dll,NvHWCtl

 

[LesPaul]

i downloaded that version of coolbits too, and it didn't work.. Get it from Guru3d.com. The one they have is just a registry patch that when you double click it, it adds the info to the registry, and you're done. Then all you got to do to OC is go to your advanced display properties for your card, click the new tab coolbits added "Clock Frequencies" check the box to let you OC, it'll want to reboot to detect the cards current frequencies, let it.. once your pc restarts, go back to the OC tab, and OC'ing your card from here is as easy as moving the slider bars to the frequency you want. You'll have to click "test" after you set the new frequencies, then apply (check apply at startup first, once you get your card where you want it), and you're done.

I'm using a Ti4200, works great.

 

[BFG10K]

Use RivaTuner as it's far better than coolbits.

basically you had MORE than 32mb of memory but LESS than 64mb

IIRC it was usually an effective 40 MB-50 MB, depending on the application.

the chips had indepent sepearte 128-bit paths to the memory, so yes it has 5.3gb/sec

But due to data duplication the effective bandwidth was around ~5 GB/sec - more than the GF DDR but a little less than a GTS and Radeon.

 

[pelikan]

I like the omega driver. It has the overclocking feature built in to the install.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Use RivaTuner as it's far better than coolbits.

What he said, minus all the 3dfx fanboyism. 😉

- M4H

 

[yhelothar]

when you use riva tuner to oc.. don't use the low level overclock.. that kills cards FAST...

i used low level overclock at the maximum clock accuracy setting... my card died in a week...

i had my card on those clocks over a year with coolbits with no problem...


when you install rivatuner.. it automatically installs coolbits...