• Whats the safest level I can overclock my graphics card to?
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[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/2010-11-25_190606.png[/img] I was wondering if it was possible to clock my 5770 to a safe level, rather than default. I'm too scared to clock it myself. Or if overclocking it to that level isn't going to increase performance, let me know.
use HWMonitor to check temps if it's not artifacting and not getting too hot there shouldn't be any problem
[QUOTE=reapaninja;26299787]use HWMonitor to check temps if it's not artifacting and not getting too hot there shouldn't be any problem[/QUOTE] What would be considered too hot? Right now it's at 41C idle.
The ATI drivers have a nice panel showing fan speed, clock speed, and temperature. Look around in the ATI catalyst.
[QUOTE=Ducluck7;26300004]What would be considered too hot? Right now it's at 41C idle.[/QUOTE] probably above 80-85 on load, idle temps mean little
Get furmark, run it for an hour and at 59 mins record the temp. if it's above 80, go clean your PC move it to somewhere else where you get lower temps. You are now ready of OC. Get Afterburner from MSI and increase all of the clocks (Memory, shader etc.) by increments of 50 MHz, keep a 3d application like fur mark on the ready to check for artifacts (Artifacts are things that are wrong with the image rendered, like missing textures, noise, etc.) when you reach a max temperature of around 80, stop. Now you can enjoy your newly OC'd card.
doesn't Afterburner come with an MSI branded version of furmark
Overclock it 50MHZ at a time for both the core clock and shader clock. Then test with furmark under the highest settings your computer can run for 30 minutes each overclock. (Should be sufficient enough to see artifcats appearing on screen) once either the artifacts appear or your computer blue screens (not a bad thing) go to the last successful overclock you achieved. [editline]26th November 2010[/editline] Also, use HWMonitor to record tempatures.
[QUOTE=Encryption;26308973]Overclock it 50MHZ at a time for both the core clock and shader clock. Then test with furmark under the highest settings your computer can run for 30 minutes each overclock. (Should be sufficient enough to see artifcats appearing on screen) once either the artifacts appear or your computer blue screens (not a bad thing) go to the last successful overclock you achieved. [editline]26th November 2010[/editline] Also, use HWMonitor to record tempatures.[/QUOTE] OOOh. I made a mistake, 5-10 increments are for CPUS :argh:
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