Nvidia overclocking

Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully OCed
their Nvidia GPU?

Most people are still trying to get the video card to act as per
specification and you are worried about over clocking with unfinished
drivers. Do you like pain?

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User


"Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
> rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully
> OCed their Nvidia GPU?

Glutting for punishment! Always ...LOL


> Most people are still trying to get the video card to act as per
> specification and you are worried about over clocking with unfinished
> drivers. Do you like pain?
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban MVP
> Microsoft Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
> news:90E94375-A920-4832-A5AE-...
>> Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
>> rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully
>> OCed their Nvidia GPU?
>

Are you talking about OCing under Vista or in General. I've OC'd a 6800GT
before, but at the end of the day. The most I ever got was about 5-8 more
fps. OCing a Video card, tends not to have the same benefits as OCing, CPU
and memory.

Now some people (like me) have bought ATI X800 plain cards, and if it's the
right make and model, you can convert it from a 12 pipe to 16 pipe card and
flash it with a X800XT-PE bios and get some actually gains out of it. Of
course, it's a bit of a risk, since if one of those other 4 pipes are
defective, then you're going to have a defective card

a 6200 is bottom of the barrel card for gaming. Even if you were able to
overclock it by 75 more Mhz, I don't think the card by it's design has
enough juice to do anything useful. it lacks the pipes and the memory to be
a solid card (of course, that's up to personal interpretation)

I suspect after about 50Mhz, you're going to see some screen corruption and
if you're running the stock Heatsink\Fan, then heat will be an issue. Unless
it's a BFG card, they make some good heatsinks for their cards, but since
they already OC'd the card, you're not going to get much more out of it.


"Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
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> Glutting for punishment! Always ...LOL
>
>
>> Most people are still trying to get the video card to act as per
>> specification and you are worried about over clocking with unfinished
>> drivers. Do you like pain?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban MVP
>> Microsoft Windows Shell/User
>>
>>
>> "Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
>> news:90E94375-A920-4832-A5AE-...
>>> Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
>>> rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully
>>> OCed their Nvidia GPU?
>>

Hey Richard !!...Now That is funny !! I agree but it is funny !!
"Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
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> Most people are still trying to get the video card to act as per
> specification and you are worried about over clocking with unfinished
> drivers. Do you like pain?
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban MVP
> Microsoft Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
> news:90E94375-A920-4832-A5AE-...
>> Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
>> rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully
>> OCed their Nvidia GPU?
>

Sorry, you don't have the 6200. I was looking at the post blow yours and had
it in mind. Which card do you have ?

"Dale White" <> wrote in message
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> Are you talking about OCing under Vista or in General. I've OC'd a 6800GT
> before, but at the end of the day. The most I ever got was about 5-8 more
> fps. OCing a Video card, tends not to have the same benefits as OCing, CPU
> and memory.
>
> Now some people (like me) have bought ATI X800 plain cards, and if it's
> the right make and model, you can convert it from a 12 pipe to 16 pipe
> card and flash it with a X800XT-PE bios and get some actually gains out of
> it. Of course, it's a bit of a risk, since if one of those other 4 pipes
> are defective, then you're going to have a defective card
>
> a 6200 is bottom of the barrel card for gaming. Even if you were able to
> overclock it by 75 more Mhz, I don't think the card by it's design has
> enough juice to do anything useful. it lacks the pipes and the memory to
> be a solid card (of course, that's up to personal interpretation)
>
> I suspect after about 50Mhz, you're going to see some screen corruption
> and if you're running the stock Heatsink\Fan, then heat will be an issue.
> Unless it's a BFG card, they make some good heatsinks for their cards, but
> since they already OC'd the card, you're not going to get much more out of
> it.
>
>
> "Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
> news:02F259E3-46C3-4420-B774-...
>> Glutting for punishment! Always ...LOL
>>
>>
>>> Most people are still trying to get the video card to act as per
>>> specification and you are worried about over clocking with unfinished
>>> drivers. Do you like pain?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Richard Urban MVP
>>> Microsoft Windows Shell/User
>>>
>>>
>>> "Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
>>> news:90E94375-A920-4832-A5AE-...
>>>> Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
>>>> rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully
>>>> OCed their Nvidia GPU?
>>>
>
>

"Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
news:90E94375-A920-4832-A5AE-...
> Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
> rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully
> OCed their Nvidia GPU?


Richard makes a great point. I just installed the Nvidia 101.41 drivers,
finally have SLI working with my two 7950Gt cards, but my 3D graphics
experience rating went down from 5.9 with only one card working to 5.8
with both!

--
Jim

More details about my computer


Component Details Subscore Base score
Processor AMD Athol(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 4.9 4.2
Determined by lowest subscore

Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB 4.2
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS 5.9
Gaming graphics 751 MB Total available graphics memory 5.8
Primary hard disk 35GB Free (75GB Total) 5.6
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium

System
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Manufacturer System manufacturer
Model System Product Name
Total amount of system memory 3.00 GB RAM
System type 32-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
64-bit capable Yes

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 75 GB
Disk partition (C 35 GB Free (75 GB Total)
Media drive (D CD/DVD
Media drive (E CD/DVDCD/DVD

Graphics
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Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Total available graphics memory 751 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 256 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 495 MB
Display adapter driver version 7.15.11.65
Primary monitor resolution 1280x1024
Secondary monitor resolution 1024x768
DirectX version DirectX 9.0 or better

Network
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Network Adapter Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter
Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller






"JimR" <> wrote in message
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> "Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
> news:90E94375-A920-4832-A5AE-...
>> Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
>> rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully
>> OCed their Nvidia GPU?
>
>
> Richard makes a great point. I just installed the Nvidia 101.41 drivers,
> finally have SLI working with my two 7950Gt cards, but my 3D graphics
> experience rating went down from 5.9 with only one card working to 5.8
> with both!
>
> --
> Jim

For the hard core enthusiast, we have been overclocking our 8800 series card
in Vista for a while now. All you have to do is figure out what speed you
want to be at, use nbitor to create a custom BIOS for the card, and flash
the video card. Instant overclocking in Vista! My XFX 8800GTS came stock at
513 core and 796 memory, it is running right now at 600 and 925 respectively
in Vista Ultimate. I determined those speeds from running under XP for a
bit.


"Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
news:90E94375-A920-4832-A5AE-...
> Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
> rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully
> OCed their Nvidia GPU?

Yes I have been looking at some mobo over clocking to bypass vista all
together.I have a asus a8n32-sli deluxe cool pipe with lots of over clocking
options. I managed to get the same performance as in XP.
"keith schaefer" <> wrote in message
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> For the hard core enthusiast, we have been overclocking our 8800 series
> card in Vista for a while now. All you have to do is figure out what speed
> you want to be at, use nbitor to create a custom BIOS for the card, and
> flash the video card. Instant overclocking in Vista! My XFX 8800GTS came
> stock at 513 core and 796 memory, it is running right now at 600 and 925
> respectively in Vista Ultimate. I determined those speeds from running
> under XP for a bit.
>
>
> "Mark Maylon" <> wrote in message
> news:90E94375-A920-4832-A5AE-...
>> Is it possible to overclock your nvidia graphics card with cool bits or
>> rivatuner? I have read mixed rewiews on the subject.anyone sucessfully
>> OCed their Nvidia GPU?
>