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How do you determine stable graphics card overclocking? - 2007/10/27 00:36 How do you define stability and what program do you use? I use ATITool with my NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra AGP card. If I go above 440MHz core and 1190 MHz memory then I start to see yellow dots on the cube gradually and the higher I go the more dots I see but it takes a decent number of dots before ATITool flags it as artifacts. So my question is when all these people are posting in their sigs with GeForce 8800 GTS and their overclocking settings what are you guys doing to determine if it's stable or not? I know everyone is different, but I'm wondering what the general consensus might be as to what is condsidered a stable overclock?

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Re:How do you determine stable graphics card overclocking? - 2007/10/28 06:22 For me personally it's as long as I don't see any artifacts, crashes or lock-ups. That's just me... For instance I once had a GeForce 6800 Ultra and ATITool would detect artifacts but when I was actually playing a game I never saw to my eye any artifacts and had no lock-ups or crashes. Though I must say I have no need to overclock my GeForce 8800 any as it's plenty fast, though I wouldn't mind the few extra frames in Crysis.

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Re:How do you determine stable graphics card overclocking? - 2007/10/28 13:43 Well ATITool is a good tool to get a view somehow on the overclocking potential but in the end it all depends on if you encounter issues like viewable artifacts in games and benchmarks or lock-ups and so on. That is done individually by each person while overclocking. The best is to never see acrtifacts cause as of then you are damaging the hardware, well maybe not at the beginning but still with all my hardware I don't want to see artifacts and my stable clocks will always be a bit less than the speeds that show artifacts, just to be save.

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Re:How do you determine stable graphics card overclocking? - 2007/11/27 02:02 Get the highest and stable clock from ATITool and try your new setting with real time benchmark such as playing some of the newest games. After played it for 8 hours and there ain't no artifacts on your monitor so it could say that your new setting is stable... That's how I test my overclocked card.

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Re:How do you determine stable graphics card overclocking? - 2007/11/28 19:17 x86 wrote:
Get the highest and stable clock from ATITool and try your new setting with real time benchmark such as playing some of the newest games. That's how I test my overclocked card.

Thanks mate, that is exactly how it should be done to be sure as ATITool is a good tool to get an idea but it is not always the best clock speed, or the most stable results, but it is a very good indication to start from.

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