Overclocking Graphics:
Now graphics overclocking is probably the easiest way to squeeze a few more fps out of you gear, it involves raising the clocked speed of your chip, Shader cores and memory of your graphics card. Now in my opinion the best program to use for this is Rivatuner (http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner).
Now after you have downloaded and installed Rivatuner all you have to do is boot her up, it may ask you to detect hardware of whatever just click yes. Now that you have the program all up and running go to the "main" tab and click the dropdown menu to select the correct monitor and adapter. Next you will see a small triangle in the bottom right hand corner of the box underneath (where still in the "target adaptor" section). Click it and it should come up with several icons, select "low level system tweaks". You should now see 2 or 3 sliders "core clock", "Shader clock" (only on some cards) and "memory clock". Now the core clock is going to give you the biggest boost in performance, the memory clock will help with large resolutions and the Shader clock is usually linked to the core.
Simply drag the core clock up in chunks of around 10, test with a programs such as Furmark (http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/), use the torture test for this, to make sure it is stable (to start with you could probably go a little more than 10 MHz but if you feel nervous or anything just be safe and stick to smallish numbers). Ok, now keep going in sections and testing with Furmark until you see some Artifacting (crazy shizz on your screen, you'll know it when it happens). Once this crazy shizz has occurred back your clock down a few MHz until it becomes "stable" again. All the time while you’re doing this you should be monitoring the temps of you card (or cards), this also can be done through Rivatuner or Furmark. Overclocking Shaders can be done separately to the core but it’s easy to leave them linked, you may be able to squeeze a little more out of your card by doing it separate, i guess it depends on how patient you are
You do the same with the memory clock; generally the memory should be able to overclock further than the core, but this isn’t always the case. On a side note never overclock both the memory and core at the same time, because when it starts Artifacting you won’t be able to tell which one is doing it. Artifacting will occur differently for your core as opposed to memory or Shaders. Its best to take not of what each type of Artifacting looks like in case you come upon it in the future, this will allow you to determine what values to lower. If need be you can also raise the fan speed on your card using Rivatuner, alternatively you can also set up a plan for the fan to run off for certain temperatures, but I’m not explaining that here. for most cards you won’t see damage to the chip until the mid 90 degrees range, but every card has a different limit, its best to search your card and find that limit so that you don’t damage hardware. If you’re having trouble overclocking your graphics card you can also do what is known as a "voltage mod", in short it’s just shorting 2 or more circuits in order for the card to use more voltage. this is dangerous and will most certainly kill your warrantee, once again it’s up to you (some cards ((very few)) allow you to do this via a softmod, i.e. an application that will come bundled with the card. i think XFX and EVGA may do it for certain cards, just search Google to find out).
That’s about it for Graphics cards, if you don’t understand anything or need help post or pm me.
Now graphics overclocking is probably the easiest way to squeeze a few more fps out of you gear, it involves raising the clocked speed of your chip, Shader cores and memory of your graphics card. Now in my opinion the best program to use for this is Rivatuner (http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner).
Now after you have downloaded and installed Rivatuner all you have to do is boot her up, it may ask you to detect hardware of whatever just click yes. Now that you have the program all up and running go to the "main" tab and click the dropdown menu to select the correct monitor and adapter. Next you will see a small triangle in the bottom right hand corner of the box underneath (where still in the "target adaptor" section). Click it and it should come up with several icons, select "low level system tweaks". You should now see 2 or 3 sliders "core clock", "Shader clock" (only on some cards) and "memory clock". Now the core clock is going to give you the biggest boost in performance, the memory clock will help with large resolutions and the Shader clock is usually linked to the core.
Simply drag the core clock up in chunks of around 10, test with a programs such as Furmark (http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/), use the torture test for this, to make sure it is stable (to start with you could probably go a little more than 10 MHz but if you feel nervous or anything just be safe and stick to smallish numbers). Ok, now keep going in sections and testing with Furmark until you see some Artifacting (crazy shizz on your screen, you'll know it when it happens). Once this crazy shizz has occurred back your clock down a few MHz until it becomes "stable" again. All the time while you’re doing this you should be monitoring the temps of you card (or cards), this also can be done through Rivatuner or Furmark. Overclocking Shaders can be done separately to the core but it’s easy to leave them linked, you may be able to squeeze a little more out of your card by doing it separate, i guess it depends on how patient you are
You do the same with the memory clock; generally the memory should be able to overclock further than the core, but this isn’t always the case. On a side note never overclock both the memory and core at the same time, because when it starts Artifacting you won’t be able to tell which one is doing it. Artifacting will occur differently for your core as opposed to memory or Shaders. Its best to take not of what each type of Artifacting looks like in case you come upon it in the future, this will allow you to determine what values to lower. If need be you can also raise the fan speed on your card using Rivatuner, alternatively you can also set up a plan for the fan to run off for certain temperatures, but I’m not explaining that here. for most cards you won’t see damage to the chip until the mid 90 degrees range, but every card has a different limit, its best to search your card and find that limit so that you don’t damage hardware. If you’re having trouble overclocking your graphics card you can also do what is known as a "voltage mod", in short it’s just shorting 2 or more circuits in order for the card to use more voltage. this is dangerous and will most certainly kill your warrantee, once again it’s up to you (some cards ((very few)) allow you to do this via a softmod, i.e. an application that will come bundled with the card. i think XFX and EVGA may do it for certain cards, just search Google to find out).
That’s about it for Graphics cards, if you don’t understand anything or need help post or pm me.
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