[SOLVED] Video Card OC
November 17th, 2013
I know how to OC the card. I’ve done it on an old 8400gs years ago.
And heat would not be a problem on my 9800gt, I only hit 54 Celsius under load.
Anyways, thanks for any help you can give!!
All parts of your computer are dying at a slow rate, increasing the throughput on your capacitors will increase the rate at which it dies (See: 80+ Certified Powersupplies).
However, the rate of this isn’t an overnight thing, and would be something like changing the life from 6 years to 5, etc, and that’s probably over guessing it.
If your heat is fine, the OC is stable, and you’re not running into any problems, go for it, but understand that there is always a risk with overclocking. Another idea is to SLI that card if you can.
80mm fans are typically no good.
Try a 120mm fan with a high static pressure.
Skyrim is slightly CPU intensive.
You didn’t take in account of the voltage regulators, you can’t measure those temps without IR thermometer.
I would buy another video card, 9800GT just doesn’t offer enough kick these days.
The 80mm fan was just there to move air through the heat sink.
This is the card here.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/16612-bfg-9800-gt-512mb-thermointelligence-passive-cooling-review-4.html
I’m planning on an upgrade in four months. But for now, I’m just wondering if OCing the card will give me that slight boost for the game. My CPU is OC enough to handle it, but my graphics card can drop my fps to 25fps at times. Running at 30fps in town is fine for me. Because with my hardware. That’s all I’m going to get.
I’m not planning on increasing voltage to it. In reality I’ll probably only get an extra 50 – 100mhz max of the cores. And I’m not going to touch memory clocks, because of the fact BFG were dumb and never sinked them.
Why don’t you just try to see for yourself.
This feat might have been done before but no one really bothers to post up that information, since most people just overclock for fun and they know that the 1-3 fps boost is often realistic.
have you tried OC your processor instead ? alot of ppl including me see a bigger frame increase with a CPU OC for skyrim.
Ste#. replied: have you tried OC your processor instead ? alot of ppl including me see a bigger frame increase with a CPU OC for skyrim.
All depends on what is bottlenecking you and what processor he has.
I got a GTS 250 and have absolutely no fps lag, but my old processor gives me a slight input lag, about 120ms delay in my character responding to the buttons I press.
PS: For a card that old, you could use RivaTuner to easily OC. Its not been supported since 2009 but works fine with older nVidia’s and the 200 series.
http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/
I use Msi afterburner and have a similar card.
I didnt notice any performance increase with overclocking
I play Skyrim on high 1024/768p 85 herz on a crt monitor and geting 50/85 Fps
My overclock settings are:
Core clock 611Mghz
Shader clock 1527Mghz
Memory clock 1049 (2098 Mghz Data)
driver 285,79
Temperature on full load is 63C but in skyrim its 47C.
Ste#. replied: have you tried OC your processor instead ? alot of ppl including me see a bigger frame increase with a CPU OC for skyrim.
I’ve already maxed out my CPU clock at 2.94ghz from 2.2. Any higher is unstable regardless of voltage. It never hit above 90% utilization while playing.
The_collective replied: I use Msi afterburner and have a similar card.
I didnt notice any performance increase with overclocking
I play Skyrim on high 1024/768p 85 herz on a crt monitor and geting 50/85 Fps
My overclock settings are:
Core clock 611Mghz
Shader clock 1527Mghz
Memory clock 1049 (2098 Mghz Data)
driver 285,79
Temperature on full load is 63C but in skyrim its 47C.
I’ve read about people pushing those 600mhz cores to over 700mhz.
Dragon Core replied: Why don't you just try to see for yourself.
This feat might have been done before but no one really bothers to post up that information, since most people just overclock for fun and they know that the 1-3 fps boost is often realistic.
So it shouldn’t really do anything to kill the card in the short term then? As long as I’m conservative and careful about the OC of course. Setting a profile to only raise clocks in the games I select should also help boost the life span I’m assuming.
Im unable to go any further. Anything above even for 1mhz my card crashes.
And if i am not mistaken my is a 500mhz stock clock core.
The_collective replied: Im unable to go any further. Anything above even for 1mhz my card crashes.
And if i am not mistaken my is a 500mhz stock clock core.
Mines 600mhz core/900mhz memory/1512mhz shader stock.
Just bought a PCI fan, it’s not an exhaust fan. It’s just blowing air up. I had a dead zone at the bottom back of my case, that would cause my temperatures to rise. Everything’s about 7 degrees Celsius cooler now. Even my motherboard dropped from 42 to 35.
Now I know with CPU’s, it’s usually not the clock that or voltage that kills it. But the temps. So with those nice low temps on my gfx card, I’m guessing I should be safe to OC without wrecking the card.
SicK020 replied: So it shouldn't really do anything to kill the card in the short term then? As long as I'm conservative and careful about the OC of course. Setting a profile to only raise clocks in the games I select should also help boost the life span I'm assuming.
Personally I wouldn’t care, its a very old card.
Dragon Core replied: SicK020 replied: So it shouldn't really do anything to kill the card in the short term then? As long as I'm conservative and careful about the OC of course. Setting a profile to only raise clocks in the games I select should also help boost the life span I'm assuming.
Personally I wouldn't care, its a very old card.
I only care about it for the next four months. Then I’ll have my new PC!!
Though I’d rather have a computer until then. That’s why I want to know if the risk is low or high. Under load, with the extra cooling, it’s only 51 Celsius under max load using the ATI tool. This is with stock clocks.
Oh I did some minor overclocking before on a new card, it died within 2 days.
Must have been a dud.
This is unpredictable, but often its fine according to many sources.
Dragon Core replied: Oh I did some minor overclocking before on a new card, it died within 2 days.
Must have been a dud.
This is unpredictable, but often its fine according to many sources.
Alright, thanks everyone. I’m just going to go ahead and do it. If it blows up, guess I’ll be getting my 560 early.