My question is: How hot is too hot? I want to know how hot my card could get before it's considered unsafe. Thanks!

Overclocking my video card
#1
Posted 21 July 2005 - 11:31 PM

My question is: How hot is too hot? I want to know how hot my card could get before it's considered unsafe. Thanks!
#2
Posted 22 July 2005 - 12:28 AM

When you see smoke, then it's definitely too hot!My question is: How hot is too hot?

Just kidding! Now why do you feel compelled to overclock your card? I'm just curious?
I run an old Radeon 9800Pro and it does fine in FarCry and Doom (not great, but fine). I have never felt a need to take the chance of blowing something up for the sake of a few megahertz.
But, anyways, good luck.
makai
#3
Posted 23 July 2005 - 03:27 AM

I am just testing to see if a few MHz makes a difference. If it doesn't, then I will just leave well enough alone. But, if it does, then I wanna just be sure of what temp I should watch out for before i melt my card...why do you feel compelled to overclock your card?
If a little OCing gives a lot of performance, then i will buy an extreme GPU cooler and see how far I can go!
#4
Posted 23 July 2005 - 07:03 AM


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Edited by RogueComGeek, 23 July 2005 - 07:09 AM.
#5
Posted 23 July 2005 - 08:39 AM

Just use ntune if you are using nvidia by the way its more reliable.
#6
Posted 23 July 2005 - 07:33 PM

Overclocking a vid card gives almost no real performance increase
really? Then how come i hear of so many people doing it? Is it a common misconception?
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