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ok, i just started to overclock my vid card. its an nvidia geforce fx5500 pci card. no, not pci-e, just pci. please, dont laugh. anyhow, the stock core frequency is 270mhz, and ive got it to 290 right now. the stock memory clock frequency is 400mhz, and i have it to 420. its running stable no problems. a few questions: how much more might i be able to do without frying the card and, is my card gonna last long now that its overclocked? how long might it last?. please reply asap. thank you very much!
 
umm.... I don't have much experience with pci graphic cards but i'd imagine they behave much like agp cards. 20mhz oc isn't that much so you current settings look ok.

To test the card's stability, run a couple of runs of 3dmark01, 03, or 05 and see if you can spot any noise in the pictures or if your card shuts down.

You probably won't fry it if you don't give it too much voltage and I don't think you can add voltage to the PCI bus. Just try to increase the clockspeed by 2-3 mhz at a time and run the benchmarks to see if there are artifacts on screen. If you don't see any, you can go up more. Same thing with memory speed. Have fun ocing :)
 
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