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Who all here overclocks their hardware?
I overclock some of my stuff, mainly my video card. I don't have the testicular fortitude to mess with my CPU/RAM speeds, nor the money to replace the said part if it erupts into flames (or a similar death).
I first started out with RivaTuner on my Radeon 9550SE. Low level overclocking was still scary to me, but I overclocked it by about 25 MHz on the Core and Memory Clocks.
I then moved onto ATi Tray Tools with my 9550 SE, and overclocked it a bit higher, but sometimes it artifacted like a mother, so it wasn't really too beneficial.
Then I bought my NVidia 256MB AGP 8x Dual-DVI 6800XT (rumored to actually be a GS GPU) video card . That's when I moved on to nTune 5.0. It has many more features than ATi Tray Tools, but is much more costly to your system if you mess up.
I went from:
Core: 350 MHz
Memory Clock: 1000 MHz
to
Core: 400 MHz
Memory Clock: 1142 MHz
(With stock cooling, btw)
It got me a 2 FPS, 2,000 point increase in AquaMark3 trial version with Standard Measurement Benchmark Mode on from the factory clocks.
nTune also lets you modify Memory Timings, AGP Bus Speeds, CPU Bus Speeds, PCI-E speeds, fan speeds, etc. all from the nTune program. It also has temperature monitors and fan monitors, as well as a system diagnostic for testing stability. Very useful tool.
Anyways, who else here overclocks their hardware?
I overclock some of my stuff, mainly my video card. I don't have the testicular fortitude to mess with my CPU/RAM speeds, nor the money to replace the said part if it erupts into flames (or a similar death).
I first started out with RivaTuner on my Radeon 9550SE. Low level overclocking was still scary to me, but I overclocked it by about 25 MHz on the Core and Memory Clocks.
I then moved onto ATi Tray Tools with my 9550 SE, and overclocked it a bit higher, but sometimes it artifacted like a mother, so it wasn't really too beneficial.
Then I bought my NVidia 256MB AGP 8x Dual-DVI 6800XT (rumored to actually be a GS GPU) video card . That's when I moved on to nTune 5.0. It has many more features than ATi Tray Tools, but is much more costly to your system if you mess up.
I went from:
Core: 350 MHz
Memory Clock: 1000 MHz
to
Core: 400 MHz
Memory Clock: 1142 MHz
(With stock cooling, btw)
It got me a 2 FPS, 2,000 point increase in AquaMark3 trial version with Standard Measurement Benchmark Mode on from the factory clocks.
nTune also lets you modify Memory Timings, AGP Bus Speeds, CPU Bus Speeds, PCI-E speeds, fan speeds, etc. all from the nTune program. It also has temperature monitors and fan monitors, as well as a system diagnostic for testing stability. Very useful tool.
Anyways, who else here overclocks their hardware?