Help overclocking a Leadtek 7600 GS

2007-03-25 15:54:48

#1

coke: Aye up duck!; +440|7174|England. Stoke

Been trying to overclock my card and so I downloaded cooltweaks thing. I found a few guides and they said I could get it up to 475/950 from the stock of 400/800 effective. First of when I went onto overclock the memory speed was 700,it showed 400 (800 effective) on the guides so wtf. Anyway I tried a fewer lower settings then went to the settings I found in the guides, and it improved my 3Dmark05 score by about 600. So does this seem alright too everyone do I need to change anything? And how risky is doing this (in terms of something getting damaged)? Finally will this allow me to up any of my settings on BF2/2142 or should I just leave it and look for improved FPS?

Last edited by coke (2007-03-25 15:55:41)

2007-03-25 15:58:24

#2

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7309|Alberta, Canada

Well a 475/950 is alright, but I bet you could get more out of it. Try a little higher speeds, then check out your GPU temperature. If it starts raising, lower it a bit, or get another fan to cool down your card.

In terms of damaging your card, you can't. Only way to really harm it is to increase the voltages, which you shouldn't need to even touch. If you increase the clock speeds too much, you will begin to see artifacts in the game. They are just spikes and lines and weird things that shouldn't be there. If you encounter this, just lower your speeds and try again.

Also, if you get artifacts and you lower your clock speeds, let the card cool down a bit before trying again, because it might still be hot, causing the artifacts to stay.

You may be able to increase the settings in game, but the only way you will know is if you try. You will get better FPS for sure though.

Last edited by Ryan (2007-03-25 16:00:55)

2007-03-25 16:21:21

#3

coke: Aye up duck!; +440|7174|England. Stoke

The option to overclock seemed to disappear from the nivida panel so I reinstalled it and now i wont let me change the settings from the ones it gets when I run find optimal, when I up any further I click test and it just resets them to the optimal one?

Edit: what sorta temps should I be getting it at about 45c at idle.

Last edited by coke (2007-03-25 16:27:59)

2007-03-25 16:32:03

#4

The#1Spot: Member; +105|7005|byah

No point to overclock anymore its time for you to upgrade. 7 series are really cheap now.

2007-03-25 16:35:24

#5

coke: Aye up duck!; +440|7174|England. Stoke

I dont wanna upgrade when I do it will be a totally new system as all of it is old, but I cant afford to do it at the mo. So I thought I would try and overclock what I got a bit...

2007-03-25 16:59:10

#6

The Stillhouse Kid: Licensed Televulcanologist; +126|7107|Deep In The South Of Texas

Best way to overclock is by bumping the speeds by 5 or 10 MHz at a time and testing with ATiTool's artifact scanner. And yes, even though it says ATi it does work with nVidia.

As for temps, lower is better, but as long as you don't go over 80°C on a full load you're not in danger. Anything below 70C is ideal.

2007-03-25 17:39:27

#7

coke: Aye up duck!; +440|7174|England. Stoke

Got it now at 502/940 if i go much higher it wont apply them, but if I turn one down I can turn the other up.
Which is more important it get higher the clock speed or memory speed.
When I close the panel though and go back they have lowered to 495/900? Why wont they stay at what I set?
And I guess I want it so that I have no artifacts showing at all on the ati scan?

Last edited by coke (2007-03-25 18:01:19)

2007-03-25 18:12:40

#8

Ryan: Member; +1,230|7309|Alberta, Canada

Are you sure there isn't a box that says Keep changes or something like that? Did you click apply?

2007-03-25 19:12:32

#9

coke: Aye up duck!; +440|7174|England. Stoke

It seems to save now when I close the panel, but I applied and clicked "apply these settings at startup" so I restart and now the settings back at stock again!!?? And it keeps varying slightly between what settings it will and wont let me apply?

Last edited by coke (2007-03-25 19:15:24)

2007-03-25 22:11:56

#10

MofoTheSickO: Member; +5|6980|Florida

I use a program called RivaTuner for overclocking you can get it here http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18 and read the FAQ it works on all cards up to the 8 series and you can find it in the download section. Give it a try, its a pretty good program and has a lot of adjustments you can make to your card.

2007-03-26 04:29:59

#11

killinzero1: Member; +14|6853

The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Best way to overclock is by bumping the speeds by 5 or 10 MHz at a time and testing with ATiTool's artifact scanner. And yes, even though it says ATi it does work with nVidia.

As for temps, lower is better, but as long as you don't go over 80°C on a full load you're not in danger. Anything below 70C is ideal.

will it work for vista?

2007-03-26 07:42:41

#12

coke: Aye up duck!; +440|7174|England. Stoke

MofoTheSickO wrote:
I use a program called RivaTuner for overclocking you can get it here http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18 and read the FAQ it works on all cards up to the 8 series and you can find it in the download section. Give it a try, its a pretty good program and has a lot of adjustments you can make to your card.

I downloaded this and seems pretty good, a bit more complicated but the guides it pretty easy to get up and running. I just hope this will save my settings properly...

2007-03-26 09:01:11

#13

coke: Aye up duck!; +440|7174|England. Stoke

Had to set it back down to 475/465 any higher and I was getting artifacts in BF2. Temps were only getting to 54c, but it looks like these are about the settings I can get, unless anyone can suggest something?

2007-03-26 09:30:57

#14

The Stillhouse Kid: Licensed Televulcanologist; +126|7107|Deep In The South Of Texas

killinzero1 wrote:
The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Best way to overclock is by bumping the speeds by 5 or 10 MHz at a time and testing with ATiTool's artifact scanner. And yes, even though it says ATi it does work with nVidia.

As for temps, lower is better, but as long as you don't go over 80°C on a full load you're not in danger. Anything below 70C is ideal.
will it work for vista?

Yep:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=26246

- Added Vista support for ATI
- Added Vista support for NVIDIA
- Added Driver level OC option for improved compatibility
- Added X1950 Pro support via Driver level OC

This release does not work out of the box on Vista 64-bit. You need to disable driver signing.

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