Oc'ing with ATItool

[baballin328]

I'm sorry if this is the hundredth thread like this, but I want to know how to overclock my PNY 7900GS with ATItool in Vista. When I start ATItool it says my mem and core speed are 0. Is this normal?

 

[Smoove910]

Why are you trying to use an ATI utility to overclock an Nvidia card? That's like trying to throw an AMD processor in an Intel LGA socket.

 

[Zero82z]

Why are you trying to use an ATI utility to overclock an Nvidia card? That's like trying to throw an AMD processor in an Intel LGA socket.

ATITool supports ATI and nVidia cards. I use it to monitor my 6800GT's temps in my system tray since RivaTuner can't do it.

To the OP, try using RivaTuner instead. Though ATITool is capable(or should be) of overclocking nVidia cards, RivaTuner will give you more options to tweak it and it will probably work with your card. If not, download and use the Coolbits registry hack and overclock through the nVidia control panel.

 

[baballin328]

Riva Tuner doesn't work with the Nvidia Vista drivers

 

[Zero82z]

Then it could be a problem caused by Vista itself.

 

[baballin328]

Well in this thread: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1115606&highlight=overclocking+vista the guy oc'ed his 7900gs with ATItool....

Mine run at 600/1600 without any issue Currently back to stock since i'm running Vista RC2 without any way to enable the overclocking tag in nvidia panel.

My nvidia tag has no OC option; I just used ATITool.

 

[heero884]

I'm sorry if this is the hundredth thread like this, but I want to know how to overclock my PNY 7900GS with ATItool in Vista. When I start ATItool it says my mem and core speed are 0. Is this normal?

just curious, why do you want to overclock your gpu in vista? right now vista is the biggest hindrance to your video card. if youre into gaming its best to stick with xp for now.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/vista-performance-preview_11.html

 

[baballin328]

Because I don't like all the viruses and spyware XP has, so can someone please tell if I can somehow overclock my vc in Vista?

 

[heero884]

Because I don't like all the viruses and spyware XP has, so can someone please tell if I can somehow overclock my vc in Vista?

the only way you can overclock your video card in vista right now would be to mod the bios

 

[Solar]

I have the same problem with ATI Tool in XP. On first install it'll catch the Video card and proper settings. But when I restart, suddenly it can't find it anymore and XP wants to add a new piece of hardware (ati tool) to the system. I've found that reinstalling the program is my best solution if I want to get accurate readings again. As a result... lets just say that I don't use ATI Tool too often.