Simviation Forum - Some noob questions

Dec 16^th, 2005 at 8:39am

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I am not yet familiarized with tweaking and o´clocking, so I have some questions...
I have a pentium 4 2,66 Ghz, running at 1.99 Ghz...is that normal?
My graphic card has a Mem Clock of 223 and a VPU clock of 398, and I think it should be FAR more...even after using TRIXX, the o´clocking tool from ATI the Mem goes to 245 and the VPU to 507 only. I think it should be VPU 550 and Mem 600 at least; my old GeForce 4 MX 440-SE
had a Mem Clock of 400!!!

any suggestions welcome!

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Reply #1 - Dec 16^th, 2005 at 6:01pm

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Well if your processer is running slower than it should be, then thats a problem. As far as the video card, use ATi Tool, it will be a better overclocking utility.However what is your GFX card? if its something like a 9600 dont push it over 400mhz core, as unless its watercooled it just cant handol the heat.

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Reply #2 - Dec 17^th, 2005 at 5:24am

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if its something like a 9600 dont push it over 400mhz core, as unless its watercooled it just cant handol the heat.

Unless he has a 9600xt, because they run at 527MHz core, and 650MHz memory as standard. (Well the Fireblade model does) Wink

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Reply #3 - Dec 22^nd, 2005 at 5:30pm

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ok I used the ATi Tool, works well, I save my settings but when I look at the specs of my card there are still the default settings, no matter what I change with ATi Tool! How can I really make the changes?

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Reply #4 - Dec 22^nd, 2005 at 5:42pm

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Save your overclocked settings to a profile. Then go into settings. Tell ATi tool that you want it to start up with windows useing your overclocked profile.

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Reply #5 - Jan 26^th, 2006 at 10:27pm

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This is an aging post, but here is my blog on it.

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ok I used the ATi Tool, works well, I save my settings but when I look at the specs of my card there are still the default settings, no matter what I change with ATi Tool! How can I really make the changes?

You can't, because your card doesn't support those speeds, that's why they won't "stick". Correct me if I'm wrong.....

You can't just download an overclocking utility and blast away, you will fry something. Learn about your architecture first, it's default speeds, and what others are achieving when overclocking the hardware.

Video cards die quickly at the hands of noob overclockers.

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