Hi,

I like to try if I cane overclock my NVidea Geforce 9600 GT and see if that give good results, I can't overclock my MB so I hope to be able to fix it the other way with grafic card.

I have download and install EVGA Precision, ATITool,Riverturner and Prime95, but I do not know how and what to use (LOL), if someone use or know anything aboute tuse tool, please give me a hand and tell the secret.

Here are my spec:
AMD Athlon 64, 2,20 GHz
3328 RAM Memory
NVidia GeForce 9600 GT

Par

Rocket_Bird wrote on Sep 19^th, 2009 at 3:02pm:

Like Rocket Bird said, if you don't know what you're doing, don't overclock. You WILL ruin your hardware, and the warranty will NOT cover it.

...if it is working satisfactorily at the moment...

...leave it as it is!

Over-clocking can damage your Processor/Graphics Card health!... ...!

Paul...If it aint broke..don't try an fix it!... ...!

^ what they said. Overclocking can potentially damage or even kill hardware and if they find out you have been overclocking then it will not be covered by the warranty. Make sure to read this whole post first before you do anything.


1.Install Rivatuner.

2. Using Rivatuner find the overclocking tab, increase the Core clock speed by 10mhz. Make sure shader and core domains are linked and that "apply overclock settings at startup" is NOT checked (you can enable this later).  Click Apply.

3. Test using 5 minutes of ATi tool stability test. It might be called something else such as "scan for artifacts".

4. If it is stable (no visual errors, usually yellow dots in ATi tool), increase the Core clock again by 10mhz and once again do a stability test.

You can use 20mhz intervals if you want to save time, but then you're more likely to have a crash (and can then take longer to troubleshoot).

5. Rinse and repeat till it starts to crash (or error) within 5 minutes of ATi tool, reduce the clocks by 5mhz, then try running an hour of ATi tool, THEN an hour of Furmark extreme burn mode. If it's again unstable then back off on the clocks by 5mhz.

6. Once you have your maximum core clock, increase the memory clocks using the same process.

I usually run 5 - 10 mhz beneath the maximum clocks I can run stable at, just to be 100% sure it will work fine.

NOTE:

1. If it's too hot (over 85 degrees IMO) make sure to increase the fan speeds using Rivatuner. The 9600GT should be a relatively cool card so that shouldn't be a problem though. I wouldn't like temperatures any more than 5 degrees hotter than stock though.

2. If your computer crashes during this, then just restart and it will be back to normal.

3. With both the highest core and memory settings you want, set them with rivatuner and enjoy. If you want, you can enable it to set the clocks at start-up.

4. Yes overclocking can kill things, however that's usually when people mess with the voltage to attain even higher clock speeds, which you are not doing.

5. I would use GPU-Z (or FURMARK) for monitoring GPU temperatures. Some other programs can be WRONG.

6. Also, everything in this post is directed to FRASSE226. It may not work for all hardware setups.

7. In the unlikely event your computer stops working, then I am not responsible. This is, however, exactly what I have done to overclock my 8800GT which has been running for almost 2 years like this, with no negative effects.