help using EVGA Precision

[mattk1045]

Hey all. I am trying to OC my comp and being a prebuilt one I have learned I cannot do this through the bios. So, I downloaded evga precision and cpuz and I could use some help with both programs. I want to OC my graphic card and my cpu and ram.
I am new and have no idea how to go about this correctly or safely without possibly messing up my comp.
All help would be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Abstract Hero]

ok so I just familiarized myself with precision to discover its nothing like ntune as its only a GPU tuner. Which means either a. we need to figure out how to get ntune working for you or b. find a different program.

Suggestions anyone?

 

[patonb]

What card do you have.. my stratagy is that I find the highest clock sold by gthe manufacturer, and bump up my core/shader and memory 15mhz then test. I run 3dvantage but you can use furmark as its a smaller d/l.

You should get hwmonitor as it monitors everything.

For software oc....i'd stay away from it....... What board is it.. I think ntune is nvidia chipset only.

 

[Abstract Hero]

It's a compaq board with a nvidia mcp61 chipset and he cant overclock through bios obviously so I suggested ntune but he cant get it to run and he wants to overclock everything he can.

 

[mattk1045]

Thank you Abstract. I couldn't have said it better myself.

With that said here is what I tried so far. Amd Overdrive which didn't work bcuz I don't have a 7 series chipset.
Cpu-z which I guess is supposed to let you change everything through SPD but I have no idea how.
Evga Precision which as u stated only works for my GPU which is half the battle.
Nvidia Ntune which is not working for me.
Finally I downloaded the most recent driver for my GPU, I havn't installed yet bcuz im waiting for some help to do this correctly.

Is that program hwmonitor anything like CPU-Z or should I get that as well?

Thanks for the help so far. Still more input needed please

 

[Yami]

I use EVGA Precision, it's good. I would follow what Paton said - overclock each one by 15MHz, then run a stress test, repeat until it starts getting too hot (exactly what's too hot depends on what card you have).

 

[mattk1045]

ok on my precision it does not show temp for my GPU and the test button is greyed out. So in order to run a test I would have to just set the settings and let it run. Also what about the gpu ram?

 

[patonb]

What card is itg?

A gpu is a basically computer that only does graphical stuff, yes i know about cuda etc\, so like a computer it has ram, a cpu and a shaders chip..

If temp doesn't show, you might not want to oc very much. It means that te temp sensor isn't readable by the system.

hwmonitor is a beefed up version of cpu-z, made by the same folks too.

But unless you can get a temp reading, i woluldn't go beyond a factory oc.

 

[mattk1045]

In Hwmonitor I get a lot of temps. I don't know what they are all for. I could post a screenshot but I don't know how to post the image. Do I need to upload the image to a site or can I post the image direct to the post?

my graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce 6150SE nforce 430

 

[RichM499]

In Hwmonitor I get a lot of temps. I don't know what they are all for. I could post a screenshot but I don't know how to post the image. Do I need to upload the image to a site or can I post the image direct to the post?

my graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce 6150SE nforce 430

Upload it to Photobucket or something like that.

Then put the link in this:

 [img] www.photobucket.com/ThisIsMyImageLink.jpg [/img]

Also. That onboard 6150 is almost a waste to even overclock. You're not going to get any performance out of that thing regardless of what you do to it.