JUST AN UNBOXING AND A LITTLE OVERCLOCKING INCLUDING A COUPLE OF BENCHMARK RESULTS
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BFG GTX 285 UNBOXING AND FIRST LOOK AT OVERCLOCKING
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Dry Ice Overclocking with Maximus..
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Clocking a E6850 with my maximus
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Overclocking your nVidia or ATi Video Card v2
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An updated version of my first video which is now Windows XP and Vista compatible. Overclocking your video card makes it run faster than factory settings, and can improve FPS in games. ***I AM NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES CAUSED IF YOU DAMAGE YOUR CARD FOLLOWING THESE INSTRUCTIONS. OVERCLOCKING WILL VOID YOUR CARDS WARRANTY (See your warranty for specific T&C)*** Links to featured tools: ati Tool: tinyurl.com GPU-Z: tinyurl.com Rivatuner: tinyurl.com rthdribl: tinyurl.com -
The Art of Overclocking a 3d Card
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By contrast to all that fiddling about with CPUs, 3D card overclocking is incredibly simple. It’s all done from within Windows, with no rebooting required, and in Vista you’ll even find that the system will recover from an unsuccessful overclock without locking up or bluescreening.
For an NVIDIA board, you want an app called nTune. It’s an official NVIDIA tool - grab it from nvidia.com/object/sysutility.html. Then you just need to head over to the NVIDIA Control Panel (there should be an option for it, if you right-click on your desktop) and click on ‘adjust GPU settings’ under ‘Performance’. If you select ‘Custom clock frequencies’ you can alter the core bus and the memory bus. As always, do it by tiny increments (10MHz or so) to identify the exact speed ceiling. There’s an option in the NV control panel called ’system stability’, and there you can run a looped render test to check the card can cope with the speed hike.
ATI cards are similarly straightforward. Load up Cataylst Control Center, again by right-clicking on the desktop and selecting its name. When prompted, choose ‘Advanced’ rather than the ‘Basic’ mode. From the list of settings on the left, you want the bottom one - ATI Overdrive. The best option whether you’re a first or a fourtieth timer at this is to click ‘Run automated clock configuration utility.’ This will test the card’s GPU and RAM at various different speeds, working out what’s safe to run at. It’ll take a little while, but once done you should notice that Overdrive’s added a few extra MHz. Click ‘Apply’, then gun up a few games and give them a quick run.
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Overclocking Your Cpu To The Extreme.
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NVIDIA Graphics Card Overclocking
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In the P4 era, CPU performance often comes up to our expectation while the video card is complained much more in the process of actual operation and playing 3D games. Then the enthusiasts who seek an increase in the performance of their computers think of overclocking, and today video adapter overclocking is nothing new to us.
Some people may tell that we can use some software such as PowerStrip or NVTweak to execute the graphic card overclocking. Yes, we can make it by loading them, but in my opinion, with its complex function, PowerStrip or NVTweak is a tool for masters-hand, not for all users, especially green hands.
Here, I introduce a very simple way to your NVIDIA Graphics Card overclocking.
No hurry to search and download PowerStrip or NVTweak from the net, the NVIDIA video card driver itself possesses the overclocking feature.
In the previous http://www.driverchecker.com/" rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" target="_blank" title="drivers" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.driverchecker.com');">Detonator drivers, there used to be AGP settings function, the Core and Memory clock adjustment functions, but the functions have been hidden later. Now the commonly used Detonator 40 driver also has such hidden functions, and it is very easy to enable them.
For instance, we open the clock rate Setting item. On the Start menu, click run and input “regedit” press the Enter key then the Registry is open. Find the item “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareNVIDIA CorporationGlobal”, and right click “Global” branch, create a new key “NVTweak” (if the “NVTweak” exists, no need to create one). After that, right click “NVTweak”, create a new dword key, named “CoolBits”. Finally, set the key “CoolBits” as “3″, and then you can open the hidden overclocking option of NVIDIA graphic adapter.
If you think opening the Registry is a nuisance, input the below words to a text file editor such as the WordPad built-in Windows.
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARENVIDIA CorporationGlobalNvTweak] “CoolBits”=dword: 00000003 The next step is to save this file with reg as its file extension (e.g. nv.reg). Double click nv.reg file then these contents can be run into Registry. What we mentioned above is risky, please be careful with http://www.driverchecker.com/" rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" target="_blank" title="Video card overclocking" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/www.driverchecker.com');">overclocking!
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Overclocking Tips
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Image via Wikipedia Like hot-rodders in the 1960s and 1970s, overclockers are a somewhat-new breed of enthusiasts. When an overclocker’s PC just isn’t fast enough, they don’t whine about it or buy a new CPU. Hell no. That would be too easy, and often times, too expensive. Instead, they do what any hot-rodder would do — they tweak what they’ve got and modify it for maximum speed and stability.
This guide is a compilation of my personal favorite CPU overclocking tips. Note that some of these tips can be found elsewhere on the Internet, and other overclockers’ opinions may differ from mine. Also, keep in mind that overclocking is considered by some to be dangerous and risky. This guide was written to help you, the average Joe Overclocker, reach new speeds (with stability) on your CPU overclocking adventure.
Also note that this article is not for total newbies. You’ve got to have at least a CPU and motherboard combination that allows overclocking and you need to have some overclocking experience and knowledge.
For more information on how to overclock a CPU, go to the How To Overclock a CPU article. With all that said, let’s get started…Cautions and Warnings: Is Overclocking Dangerous?
Several times you’ve probably heard people say that CPU overclocking is dangerous. Usually it seems like newbies, PC retailers, and CPU manufacturers say these things. Is overclocking really dangerous? Well, yes and no. And keep in mind, it’s “dangerous” for your CPU; not for you, personally. If you truly know what you’re doing, it really isn’t that dangerous. But even an experienced overclocker can kill a CPU if they aren’t careful or overlook certain things like voltage. For the average PC user, overclocking is more dangerous. The safety precautions that an overclocking veteran would take may be overlooked by a newbie. So, when Intel (for example) declares that overclocking is risky and can be dangerous, they are usually saying so for all the newbies out there that are new or unfamiliar to overclocking. It’s simply for liability. If Intel encouraged or even supported overclocking, there would be plenty more Celeron keychains and Pentium II paperweights available.
What’s the Problem?
Now that I’ve addressed a few issues, let’s get into the gist of things. Since you are in fact reading this guide, I’m guessing you are looking for a solution to an overclocking problem you’re having. You can’t get into Windows? Your PC flashes up random BSODs (Blue Screens of Death)? Your PC can’t get past the BIOS? Your PC doesn’t turn on when you overclock? Your PC freezes after about an hour of running? Phew. No problem…
There are way too many possible overclocking problems to cover in one article (or even five or ten articles), so I’m simply going to try to help you solve the some of the most common problems. Once you’ve decided on the problem, read on into the guide for tips on that specific issue.
Your operating system (Windows, usually) crashes after a period of time (several minutes or more), without running any extremely intensive programs:
If you didn’t run any intensive programs, this is most likely a heat issue. Consider lowering the voltage (unless it means sacrificing stability) or better cooling. Read on…Your operating system crashes immediately after a certain intensive program is run:
If a single game or program crashes your PC immediately after it has been launched, this is usually a sign of a few possible problems. The issue is most likely the CPU itself, but it could be the memory. The CPU is overclocked beyond its limit with the supplied voltage, or the CPU simply cannot go that fast (eek!). Try increasing the voltage as long as it’s in the “safe” range. Generally a CPU can withstand a .2 or .3 volt increase (over default) for long periods of time. I generally don’t recommend going higher than .3 over the default voltage.If you’re sure it’s not the CPU, check to see the speed rating of the RAM in your system. 10 ns SDRAM (PC66) should be good up to around 100 MHz FSB. 8 ns SDRAM (most PC100) should be good up to around 125 MHz FSB. 7 ns SDRAM or faster should be good beyond 133 MHz FSB. Anything beyond those values could result in problems from the memory. Another thing to try would be to set the CAS latency in the BIOS setup to 3 instead of 2 (CAS latency determines how much time the computer allows the RAM to recover between ‘column’ access). This could solve the problem.
Your PC doesn’t even turn on (maybe it turns on, but the monitor doesn’t receive a signal) once it’s been overclocked, or it can’t get past the BIOS:
This is one of the most frustrating problems for newbies, because they seem to think their PC is toast when it won’t respond to the keyboard or it won’t even display video. But hey, we all learn the hard way when it comes to these sorts of problems. To recover the original clock speed, you’ll need to do one of the following: 1) Find the jumper on your motherboard that resets the CMOS configuration, 2) Find the key on the keyboard that resets the clock speed, or 3) Re-jumper the CPU for a more stable speed on the motherboard or slocket. If you need to find the key or the jumper that resets the clock speed (usually for software CPU configuration), consult the manual. This is different on just about every motherboard.Now that you know how to fix the problem by returning to default values, you probably want to know how to make the old value stable, right? Well, if it doesn’t even receive a video signal, it could be either the CPU is not getting enough voltage (remember, .2 or .3 volts over the default is about the maximum I recommend), or the memory may not be up to it. Make sure your memory can handle such a high FSB speed on another PC if possible. Heat probably isn’t an issue at this point since this is immediately after you start the PC.
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