Hey,
I just decided to try my hand at some n00bile basic overclocking yesterday, and was a little frustrated by the results. I've got a geforce 6800 ultra card stock clocked at 400mhz/1100mhz. I used the overclocking menu in the nVidia drivers to bump it up to 410/1100. Then I went to 420/1100, and at that point it became unstable when heavy gaming(I tested in hl2, ended up with a lot of 'snow').
I must say I'm a little disappointed. Well, I guess not so much disappointed as confused. I'm new to the whole overclocking thing so I really don't know if what I've got is decent or not. I built my comp with overclocking at least a little bit in mind. Although I didn't get an aftermarket cooler for my vga, I did buy a Leadtek card just because the heatsink was massive and I heard it was effective. To me, my overclock seems a bit weak? Did I just get a bad card? Am I doing something/not doing something I ought to be doing?
The drivers read my gpu's temp. as 67 celsius idling at stock speeds. Is this a typical/good temp. for my card?
Any help is much appreciated.
With n00bile love and envy,
Luxar
I just decided to try my hand at some n00bile basic overclocking yesterday, and was a little frustrated by the results. I've got a geforce 6800 ultra card stock clocked at 400mhz/1100mhz. I used the overclocking menu in the nVidia drivers to bump it up to 410/1100. Then I went to 420/1100, and at that point it became unstable when heavy gaming(I tested in hl2, ended up with a lot of 'snow').
I must say I'm a little disappointed. Well, I guess not so much disappointed as confused. I'm new to the whole overclocking thing so I really don't know if what I've got is decent or not. I built my comp with overclocking at least a little bit in mind. Although I didn't get an aftermarket cooler for my vga, I did buy a Leadtek card just because the heatsink was massive and I heard it was effective. To me, my overclock seems a bit weak? Did I just get a bad card? Am I doing something/not doing something I ought to be doing?
The drivers read my gpu's temp. as 67 celsius idling at stock speeds. Is this a typical/good temp. for my card?
Any help is much appreciated.
With n00bile love and envy,
Luxar