First Overclock Baby!

[bigdawgfoxx]

I have no GPU cooling or case fans...should i definently not overclock with no airflow?

Also, Adam...what is the diff between a Quadro and a Geforce? i mean i know the Quadro cost way more..but why? lol thanx man

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@8 October 2003 - 20:19
I have no GPU cooling or case fans...should i definently not overclock with no airflow?

Also, Adam...what is the diff between a Quadro and a Geforce? i mean i know the Quadro cost way more..but why? lol thanx man

airflow is key to keeping things cool.


ALso, could you give some links guys on softmodding and overclocking Geforce cards? I just used Rage3d Tweak on my Radeon, but havnt went looking for Nividia overclocking progs.

[adamp2p]

Forget the Quadro bit. The Quadro is a card marketed to CAD folks. I actually tried the mod on my dad's computer (Geforce MX440 SSE), and it does not work; it works better with the plain geforce 4 cards.

The following is a copy/paste from guru3d.com

Yes it's finally here. You can force the professional Quadro4 family on your normal GeForce4 without soldering on the PCB to force the Device_ID, all that with a little software patch and a little help from some anonymous friends that is.

read more about it here

Soft Quadro is a registry mod that is built into the Riva tuner. Get it even if you do not want to do the mod. You can do low level overclocking, hardware level overclocking and LOD bias settigs.

I installed Riva Tuner on my dad's computer he has your exact card I think. It works really well. I wish there was such a utility for ATI (well actually Rage3d tweak is great, but the user interface of Riva Tuner a bit nicer in my opinion).

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by _John_Lennon_+9 October 2003 - 01:43--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (_John_Lennon_ @ 9 October 2003 - 01:43)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-bigdawgfoxx@8 October 2003 - 20:19
I have no GPU cooling or case fans...should i definently not overclock with no airflow?

Also, Adam...what is the diff between a Quadro and a Geforce? i mean i know the Quadro cost way more..but why? lol thanx man

airflow is key to keeping things cool.


ALso, could you give some links guys on softmodding and overclocking Geforce cards? I just used Rage3d Tweak on my Radeon, but havnt went looking for Nividia overclocking progs. [/b][/quote]
an even easier way to oc ur nvidia is to go to:
http://www.caneage.com/modules.php?op=modl...&artid=7&page=1

dl the registry thing, and follow some very easy instructions

[DarthInsinuate]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@9 October 2003 - 13:09
dl the registry thing, and follow some very easy instructions

the &#39;coolbits&#39; driver-level overclocking tool is a bit irritating - the screen does this annoying blinking thing at startup

Rivatuner allows low-level overclocking so you don&#39;t get that

[abu_has_the_power]

yea, i sometimes get that screen flickering thing. how do i remove it?

[DarthInsinuate]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@9 October 2003 - 21:52
yea, i sometimes get that screen flickering thing. how do i remove it?

reset your clocks to default, and use Rivatuner&#39;s low-level clock settings instead of coolbits

[abu_has_the_power]

how hot will the card get? like just a little bit of tweaking?

[abu_has_the_power]

Detonator 5.08 or higher NVIDIA reference drivers for Windows 2000 / Windows XP.

where do i get a driver like that? i have like 45.23 or something

and the thing is hollowed out. wtf?

here&#39;s a scrnshot:

http://www.freewebs.com/ihaveabu/rivatuner%20prob.JPG

[DarthInsinuate]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@9 October 2003 - 23:08
how hot will the card get? like just a little bit of tweaking?

it shouldn&#39;t get any hotter than if you over clocked with coolbits

Detonator 5.08 - sounds like an ancient driver, Rivatuner should support any Nvidia card