Is the Nvidia Ntune program good for Overclocking?

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Just out of curiosity, I downloaded the ntune program, and am wanting to run the whole 3 hour program, but not sure if it works well or not.


Your thoughts?
 
if u really want to oc i´d recommend to u, Rivatuner or Powerstrip, nice little programs. there is also ATI Tools but i haven´t use it yet.
stay away of ntune :D
 
i´ve had bad experiences with ntune, but then again it just might´ve been my setup.
 
I agree with RussianHAXOR, Rivatuner is by far the best Nvidia overclocking program out there. I'd personally stay away from ATiTool just because it's setup for OCing with ATi cards :rolleyes: , I mean it's a great tool and all but theres WAY better for Nvidia cards.

If you're looking for something overly simple too I'd also recommend coolbits. It adds the clock frequency and a few other menus to your Nvidia panel and is a lot easier to grasp over Rivatuner. It's just a simple registry entry too, nothing to install or run, just add it and go! :D
 
SuperKeijo said:
Just flash the bios with overclocked settings, best way to overclock IMO.
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Yea but that can be a hassle sometimes, having to reboot and flash reboot and flash, it much easier to find a card's max OC in windows THEN flash it to those settings if you must. :D
 
SoCalDJ said:
Yea but that can be a hassle sometimes, having to reboot and flash reboot and flash, it much easier to find a card's max OC in windows THEN flash it to those settings if you must. :D
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True. But finding max clocks for shaders requires a little flash and reboot because there isn't a way to overclock shaders (with geforce 8 series) via os at the moment I think..
 
SuperKeijo said:
True. But finding max clocks for shaders requires a little flash and reboot because there isn't a way to overclock shaders (with geforce 8 series) via os at the moment I think..
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True, I'm not sure about the shader clock, does the new Riva Tuner have an ability to OC that?

So I guess the lesson is OC the regular clocks in windows, find the max, then flash away to max out your shader clock!! :cool:
 
Rivatuner doesn't allow for separate shader frequency adjustment, it does increse with a fixed ratio when overclocking the core, but the core usually chickens out before shaders do, so the only way to find max stable shader frequencies is with bios flashing.
 
SuperKeijo said:
Rivatuner doesn't allow for separate shader frequency adjustment, it does increse with a fixed ratio when overclocking the core, but the core usually chickens out before shaders do, so the only way to find max stable shader frequencies is with bios flashing.
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that sounds very risky, and what would happen if your card just won´t post after a OC flash ?
 
leSLIe said:
that sounds very risky, and what would happen if your card just won´t post after a OC flash ?
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I don't see why it wouldn't. Just back off ALL overclockings before flashing. It takes like 5-10 seconds for nvflash to flash the bios and after the flash it verifies it (don't know what'll happen if the verification isn't successful..). AND even if something gets messed up, it isn't hard to blind flash the card again. I've flashed my 8800 GTS atleast 10-15 times when playing with shader clocks and all has gone well everytime, even when I set the shaders to 1670 or something LOL. Using nibitor to adjust the frequencies and nvflash to do the flashing, it's really just a walk in the park..
 
leSLIe said:
that sounds very risky, and what would happen if your card just won´t post after a OC flash ?
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So long as you know what you're doing there's little or no risk at all when flashing the bios.

Here, great site with alot of info on bios flashing and some guides on how to as well.

http://www.mvktech.net/

If you card doesn't post after a flash, 99% of the time it means you flashed the wrong bios to the card. This can be fixed by making an Emergency Flash Disk AKA - The Blind Flash disk.

Just make sure you take the proper precautions and double check to make sure you're flashing the right bios with the right commands, and you'll be fine. :D
 
Here is what i suggest...

Get Rivatuner and install it as your overclocking/monitoring system

Then, install ATi tool but dont use it to overclock...

use ATitool to stress test your videocard while still overclocking in Rivatuner and monitoring your temps in Rivatuner. You tend to get better results since you can see where you start artifacting so you dont cause damage to your videocard while using the better of the two overclocking programs.
 
RussianHAXOR said:
Here is what i suggest...

Get Rivatuner and install it as your overclocking/monitoring system

Then, install ATi tool but dont use it to overclock...

use ATitool to stress test your videocard while still overclocking in Rivatuner and monitoring your temps in Rivatuner. You tend to get better results since you can see where you start artifacting so you dont cause damage to your videocard while using the better of the two overclocking programs.
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i agree :p
 
firebyyrd said:
dangerous, if you flash it wrong...
there goes your graphics card :p

Rivatuner is great. fan speeds can be changed too!
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I don't agree. The only way to flash it wrong would be to reboot while the flashing is in progress. Nvflash won't allow to flash a bios with a different ID number, so you can't flash a GTX bios on a GTS card without changing the ID code. I don't see how the bios could be flashed "wrong". And as I said in my previous post, the card isn't dead even if you did somehow mess uo the flashing because it can be blind flashed. This is done by booting up with the messed up card using the same disk and writing "nvflash *biosname.rom*" and after few seconds pressing "y"- Not too hard a task to do.
 
jordan12 said:
Just out of curiosity, I downloaded the ntune program, and am wanting to run the whole 3 hour program, but not sure if it works well or not.


Your thoughts?
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No. nTune is a joke.
ATITool will work for all nVIDIA cards.
That is what I use.

And I am sitting at 690/1050 on my 880GTS 640MB.
 
ShiningHolden said:
No. nTune is a joke.
ATITool will work for all nVIDIA cards.
That is what I use.

And I am sitting at 690/1050 on my 880GTS 640MB.
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I want to see a screenshot of atitool artifact scan running atleast 10 minutes with those clocks, sounds too unbelievable.
 
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