Video Card Overclocking

02-27-2005 Video Card Overclocking

Keith and Stavos are both avid video over clockers, but I never saw much of a need to over clock until my embarrassing benchmark results in comparison to Keiths setup. A disciple of the church of "less is faster" when it comes to software installs on windows I avoided installing a 3rd party over clocking application and never got to over clocking my video card. Recently, however, I found this article which has registry modifications to enable the NVIDIA clock speed utility already installed as part of my video driver. I quickly found that 400Mhz core and 800Mhz memory clock speeds were the fastest I could safely handle, which is about 20% faster than factory configuration. The benchmark reflected an 18% speed improvement which was noticeable, and most importantly, free. Geeks just get a kick out of knowing they are getting the most out of any kind of electronics component.

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