Re: How safe to overclock?
 

Don't go by how your computer smells or feels, just go straight to the source. Look at the temperatures in the nVidia driver. But just as a precaution, I tried never to use the actual recommended clock speeds. For some reason your computer is giving you reccommendations about 40MHz lower than mine did, but I always lowered the speed a little after detecting my optimal frequencies.

Re: How safe to overclock?
 

I can't find any temperature monitors. I even downloaded nTune and I got no temperature reading.

Re: How safe to overclock?
 

right click your desktop, click "properties", click "settings", "advanced", your gfx adapter, select temp from the pop out side menu

Re: How safe to overclock?
 

I have no temperature settings option. It just is not there.

Re: How safe to overclock?
 

Use coolbits to get the temp

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=815

Re: How safe to overclock?
 

Do you have MSI cards, by any chance?

Re: How safe to overclock?
 

My card is MSI and I have Temp monitoring.

I suggest you download nTune.

If you have an nforce motherboard, it should have came with it. I think it is only compatible with nforce motherboards, but you could give it a shot.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_2.00.23.html

Re: How safe to overclock?
 

He has no temperature reading. He downloaded nTune, and using Coolbits wont work since it only unlocks another part of the menu the temperature should already be displayed in.

Just a wild guess, but is it possible that you using SLI is causing a problem? Maybe if you remove one card you'll get a reading? Or just buy one of these. It's pretty accurate but inexpensive. I have one and I just throw it in a drawer and pull it out when I need it. It's backlit, has an alarm and plugs into a molex connecter. I think it might fit in a 3.5" drive bay, but I have no idea.

Re: How safe to overclock?
 

do you have current drivers? the only reason i dount overclock and unlock my 6800 is because i have a warrenty and if something happens i dount want to void it.

Re: How safe to overclock?
 

I do have the current nvidia drivers, and I've left it off over night, and booted it up today, left it running for a while and it was cool. I think the way I have my PC positioned may have something to do with the case being hot, because it does not have very good airflow, and when I actually follow the flower of the air I just end up seeing that it's sucking in the hot air it's just expelled out the front.