OverClocking your Video Card

[JollyRoger]

Are you looking for a little more from your video cards
If you have an NVidia Card and your running the Latest Drivers
You can unlock a tweak to the NV hides in their Drivers Called
Coolits

Here's How (Warning Registery Hacking)

1. Nav to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE|NVIDIA CorporationGlobalNVTweak

2. Create a New DWORD Value

3. Name it: Coolbits

4. Modify it and give it a value of 3

now Reboot your system and you'll now have acces to thing such as Clock Freq., Cor Freq., Memory Clock freq.

You can get to it from you Advanced Video settings

ATI

You guy can D/L a program called PowerStrip from here.
http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtml

Not sure how this works I don't use ATI



[Edited on 5-16-2005 by JollyRoger]

[JollyRoger]

Well I ran the Coolbits Stuff for my Card and here are the results.


Factory
BFGTech NVidia 5700LE OC
Core Clock 275 Mhz (250Mhz Standard)
Memory Clock 400 Mhz
Average FPS in UO 41

OC by Jolly using CoolBits
Core Clock 328Mhz
Memory Clock 510Mhz
Average FPS in UO 79

Now take in to mind that my system is very Jacked so if I had
a clean install the FPS number for both would be alot better
But that show that it works.

'night all

[ZWarrior]

You OC'd a BFG card?  That's a bit risky since they are already OC'd at the factory right?

[JollyRoger]

Si But I their only Clocked up to 275Mhz from 250Mhz
and so far I have it running stable.

Coolbits has a featue that will detect the highest most stable setting. So lets hope this stays stable.

[Mr_Anderson]

With my video card, it already came with some software that I could use to overclockit.

It is the ATI Catalyst Control Center.

I can get the VPU to 624 MHz and the Memory to 594 MHz, but it becomes very unstable.

So far I don't really need to overclock it, so I'm just going to leave it alone.

[JollyRoger]

did you try Mt other link for Powerstrip?

[Mr_Anderson]

I haven't tried that, but for right now I don't need to.