overclocking video card?

[wahoyaho]

how do i know if it's stable? what are the signs of it not being stable and i should tune it down 10mhz on each

i have it up to 500/1200 and i ran some games, rtdhtiablablabl (whatever it's spelled), and 3dmark05 and i don't see anything different than in 470/1100

also what's the highest temp i should let it go to? it gets to about 65 on load right now

 

[AltTabbins]

how do i know if it's stable? what are the signs of it not being stable and i should tune it down 10mhz on each

i have it up to 500/1200 and i ran some games, rtdhtiablablabl (whatever it's spelled), and 3dmark05 and i don't see anything different than in 470/1100

The only difference you are going to see is your score on 3dmark05... which means pretty much nothing in real world apps/games.

Its stable if you can run it for 30 minutes without any kind of artifacting.

 

[wahoyaho]

artifacts are just triangles from what i've heard? :x (that's what i meant by when i said i don't see anything different)

but if i oc i'll get better frame rates in games right?

 

[AltTabbins]

not a whole lot more framerates.. but a slight improvement.
Artifacting is ANYTHING out of the ordinary (shading problems, "triangles", total crashes etc).

 

[D3v01D]

Umm... what kind of vid card are we talking about?

ATItool seems to work good for me. You can't use it to overclock an nVidia card, but the ' Scan for Artifacts ' works well enough. It will get your card really hot, I don't know what it is about that harry little cube but it gets my gpu up into the mid 70's