Well, i just decided to OC my graphics card (yep i know its lame, but its all i have for now) and well, all seems to be going good so far. The card is a geforce 4 ti4400 (its a creative labs card) and is using its stock cooler. I havent modified anythign on the card. At stock speeds the card runs at 275/550. I am wondering how many mhz the "average" graphics card overclock would get. This is the first time i have tried overclocking anything, and i dont want to take it too far but i still want as much out of it as possible. I have currently got it set at 305/610 and it made it through Aquamark3 no problems. During the benchmark i didnt notice anything strange either. How do you know when you have taken it too far (obviously before it gets to the stage of being unusable ). Do you think i should be ok to keep upping it still? I have been upping it in 5mhz increments for the clock speed, and doubleing it for the ram. I have also been benchmarking in between each stage. Heres how my scores are doing so far (my system is lame, i know) 280/560 - 16,624 285/570 - 16,830 290/580 - 17,146 295/590 - 17,441 300/600 - 17,606 305/610 - 17,646 I noticed how the last increment in clock speed didnt have the same jump in Aquamark score too... Well if anyone can help it will be much appreciated Edit: Well i decided to continue increasing it but didnt get far. 310/620 ran the full test and i didnt notice any graphical defects or anything and it made a score of 17,958. So then i went for 315/630. It didnt manage to complete the test. The screen "messed up" and the fps and frame counter in the top corner start flickering and vanishing completely. Will i be ok leaving it on 310/620 and then lower it even more if anything begins to go wrong, or should i play it safe and lower it some more?
That's what I do, if I see artifacts then I lower my clock speeds. You can get utilities like Atitool (name would suggest it's only for ATi cards that will attempt to find your maximum overclock, but I find that they err on the extreme side of caution, Atitool tells me my mem clocks should be 20MHz lower but I ignore it and just keep my card at a speed that looks good to me. It's all subjective.
