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    Graphics Card Overclocking

    Before I run off and try this over the weekend, I just want to make sure I got this right and not missed anything off.

    1. Use RivaTuner to set Fan profiles.
    2. Use RivaTuner to overclock
    3. Use AtiTool (I think it's called) to stress test the GPU to see if it passes.
    4. Overclock one bit at a time and monitor temperatures.

    Nothing I have missed out on, is there?

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    Re: Graphics Card Overclocking

    FurMark in stability mode will stress your graphics card a lot more than ATitool but it doesn't have an error detection facility, but then again the artifacting screen or just blankness should give that away

    And yeah one thing at a time to determine the max for each then start playing with more than one at a time.

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    Re: Graphics Card Overclocking

    I overclocked my 8800GT the other week and managed to get the clock to 702MHz (from 600MHz) but, interesting, the memory wouldn't even go up by 4MHz without becomming unstable :S

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    Re: Graphics Card Overclocking

    I use Rivatuner for the overclock and the just run something like Crysis, CoD4 or 3DMark to test the stability.

    First find the limit and then reduce the overclock by 10ish Mhz, should be fine after that.
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    Re: Graphics Card Overclocking

    Yea, I used Rivatuner + CoD4 and it didn't really take long at all. If you've clocked it too high, you should know about it very quickly.

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    Re: Graphics Card Overclocking

    or use ati tools thingy(whats it call again? the cube ) as that is a very good way of helping in making sure its stable, if you see yellow dots quickly stop and drop it before it currupts lol.
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    Re: Graphics Card Overclocking

    I played around with my 9800GTX+ last week. Managed to get it to 802MHz at core, 1998 shaders and 2400 memory, but got a few random driver hand-ups after some time in games, so lowered that somewhat. But that wasn't on maximum fan settings (don't really like that much noise), so I might still get there =)

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    Re: Graphics Card Overclocking

    Am I the only person who just whacks up the clocks & jups straight into a game to test clocks? Risky I guess but this whole 'raise by 1mhz then bench for 17hours' thing would annoy the hell out of me!

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