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No more overclocking in nvidia drivers...?

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I recently sold my radeon 9500/softhack -> 9700 to a friend and had to dig an old 5900 out of a box.

I remember there used to be an overclocking tab on the drivers....no longer! I also tried rivatuner....and the overclocking properties are greyed out.

help!

Rob
 
Robstar said:
I recently sold my radeon 9500/softhack -> 9700 to a friend and had to dig an old 5900 out of a box.

I remember there used to be an overclocking tab on the drivers....no longer! I also tried rivatuner....and the overclocking properties are greyed out.

help!

Rob
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I haven't used a Nvidia card in a couple years but I believe someone who has one will be happy to point out the Coolbits registry hack to enable overclocking.
 
A very good friend of mine, who is currently not on AIM, has a 5900. i'll be sure to bug him about it for you, and come back with the results
 
Robstar said:
I recently sold my radeon 9500/softhack -> 9700 to a friend and had to dig an old 5900 out of a box.

I remember there used to be an overclocking tab on the drivers....no longer! I also tried rivatuner....and the overclocking properties are greyed out.

help!

Rob
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Linkage to Nvidia Coolbits at Guru3D
 
I talked with my friend, and this is what he had to say:

Friend: I still dont get his problem
Grim Incarnation: the new drivers dont let OCing
Friend: well he just doenst know how to do it, since they do
Friend: these n00bs think coolbits is the only way to OC a card, lol
Grim Incarnation: yeah, so... thats it?
Grim Incarnation: yes, no?
Friend: tell him to use low level hardware OCing
Friend: and that the 56.56 betas are still better for OCing than the 60 series
Friend: he can also try to use hacked drivers, as they are better for OCing generally
 
You can't use hardware overclocking on the 5900 cards. They dont allow it. You have to overclock through the drivers. Just download CoolBits and add the registry file to unlock the option in the nVidia drivers. If you still can't get it to work i can tell you exactly where to go in the registry and what to add. You only have to add one string.
 
M4d-K10wN said:
Bah, just flash it to 5950U.
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I already did :p

Back flashed it when I thought it was my card that was dying during install of new motherboard, turns out it was a bad board, just havent gotten around to flashing it back.

On particular note of flashing the 5900 to 5950 ultra, mine, it would wind up with some minor desktop artifacting while in windows so I set cool bits to lower the memory from 950 to 925 and all was good for the last 6 mo.
 
Hmm, I have a custom one that's 490core 980mem. Doesn't help your cause, though.
 
The coolbits trick worked.

Low level hardware overclocking was greyed out in rivatuner.

Thanks for the help guys!

Rob
 
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