You know you've overclocked it if you see smoke billowing out of your computer...

No, this is not a "best ship" thread. Hold your fire.

I don't want it to go that far...

i had a friend of mine that had a graphics card that warned if it got too hot. the comp shuts down like 10seconds after. you'll know if you've gone too far if either:
1) smoke starts billowing out of somewhere within the depths of ur comp
2) when ur comp starts, a msg pops up sayin ur grphics card is at 90'C <WARNING>

generally speaking Xeno stick to about a 25% to 33% increase in clock speeds, I've found that to be a safe increase; u get noticeable extra performance without instability or unexpected weirdness. In theory u can overclock up to anything (just like tuning a car) but the higher u go the shorter it lasts and the more unstable it gets.

for example, my PIV 2.4 is ocd to 2.8 and is rock solid but if I up it to 3.0 it dies very quickly. I also keep my RAM and AGP clocks in step so they are ocd to about the same proportion too. I chuck in a slight extra voltage for overclocking as well, just adds an extra incentive for stability.

2.4 runs @ 2.8, 133 fsb upped to 150
300 mem runs @ 366
266 agp runs @ 333

I hope u r using a dual bios mobo, these are invaluable when ocing experiments go tits up, the system just recovers to its original settings.

I looked into ur particular card and you can get that up to 333/233 no problems, just keep it cool like uv bin told and u will b fine.


Edited by - Tawakalna on 03-09-2003 19:52:02

i good investment if you are going to clock a card is one of the little flat fans that sit in the space above the agp port in your case / mobo they can noticeably drop the card temp even helps a bit with the cpu temp as the card dumps almost all its heat outside the case
i dont know where you get them in the US but in the uk ive only managed to get them from maplins

I still say crank that f**ker up, man.... I think it's funny as hell when a computer bursts into flames.... especially yours. *L*

thats not *very* nice, is it?

..you think you're done with the past; but the past isn't done with you..

Well, yeah, I know, I know.... but I'm not *very* nice, myself... *L*

Yes, absolutely everything I post, including this, is spam.
Bite me.

i have got it going at 125%/115% of origional so its goin good.