Thread: Frustrating Over clock

I'm trying to over clock my new video card and I can't seem to get it to go up in 3dMarks at all. I've been using Ati tool to stress it, Riva Tuner to change the settings, and GPU-Z to confirm the changes. I looked up and have found many settings. I currently have my water block installed and its stable at 43 idle and about 45 load some times up to 47 for a short time.

One setting is core 700 and Mem at 900
Second setting core 875 and Mem 1118.


I don't see any difference on any thing when I hit apply on the settings and I even ran a full 3dmark06 test with not one more point. I actually think I went down... Please help.

did you try a small bump of the gpu and leaving the memory alone? it may sound weird but just try it. if you get a higher score then great. what i was learned to do was leave the memory alone and bump up the gpu and run 3dmark or some benchie that stresses graphics, then keep bumping it up a bit by bit until my score stops increasing (or actually goes down). then reset the gpu to stock and repeat the process for memory. record the best clock rates for each and then set the gpu and mem at the same time to what you recorded and you should be in the ballpark for your highest performance. if you have sufficient memory cooling then you will be fine, if not then i would take it down some for your 24/7 overclock.

I usually get the best performance out of my 8800 GT with 733/1900/2000 clocks, anything higher just brings down my score (3dmark06).

Ill try that when i get home, thanks.

rub your balls on it. that might work.

if not, try adjusting your resolution or you could try what blue said.

I don't have much experience over clocking video cards so I didn't know i could push it that far and it not fail... CPU's you can push and push, but then they start to fail... LOL