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Re: How safe to overclock?

carl4286

January 27th, 2006 01:29 PM

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.

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Re: How safe to overclock?

January 27th, 2006 02:05 PM

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

2601084

Re: How safe to overclock?

January 27th, 2006 03:20 PM

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

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Re: How safe to overclock?

January 27th, 2006 03:34 PM

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

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Re: How safe to overclock?

January 27th, 2006 03:42 PM

Use coolbits to get the temp

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

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Re: How safe to overclock?

January 27th, 2006 05:39 PM

Do you have MSI cards, by any chance?

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Re: How safe to overclock?

rob.

January 27th, 2006 07:01 PM

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

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Re: How safe to overclock?

carl4286

January 27th, 2006 08:01 PM

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.

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Re: How safe to overclock?

January 27th, 2006 08:57 PM

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.

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Re: How safe to overclock?

January 28th, 2006 02:03 AM

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.