I'm in the process of overclocking my XFX 6600gt agp(please no comments regarding this card please) with coolbits 2. It seems easy enough but i have a few questions.
1- the settings were set at 300MHz and 900GHz, why? It seems really low..... (i'm using forceware 76.41)
2- When i "Detect optimal setings" it cranks it up to 560MHz and 1.12 GHZ. Should i trust this? or should i just do it manually?
3- When i look at "temperature settings" it's 43 C for gpu core and 33 C ambient temp at idle. I'm think that temp is fine but what can i expect temperature wise when i run games like doom 3 and so on? (it's not going to skyrocket up to 80C or 90C right?) also ( i have 3 fans in my case)
4- I know overclocking voids the warrenty but what kind of real damage am i doing to the card with the optimal settings or lower?
(higher then the default settings though)
5- can anyone(explain to me) or give me a link to what else i should do performance wise with coolbits 2 rather than just changing the clock frequencies?
I would really appreciate any help with regards to the questions above. Thank You
1- the settings were set at 300MHz and 900GHz, why? It seems really low..... (i'm using forceware 76.41)
2- When i "Detect optimal setings" it cranks it up to 560MHz and 1.12 GHZ. Should i trust this? or should i just do it manually?
3- When i look at "temperature settings" it's 43 C for gpu core and 33 C ambient temp at idle. I'm think that temp is fine but what can i expect temperature wise when i run games like doom 3 and so on? (it's not going to skyrocket up to 80C or 90C right?) also ( i have 3 fans in my case)
4- I know overclocking voids the warrenty but what kind of real damage am i doing to the card with the optimal settings or lower?
(higher then the default settings though)
5- can anyone(explain to me) or give me a link to what else i should do performance wise with coolbits 2 rather than just changing the clock frequencies?
I would really appreciate any help with regards to the questions above. Thank You