Ocing My Video Card

[aarone]

I have a radeon 9100 with omega drivers.

 

If i start bumping up the voltage and mem voltage should i get one of those fancy heat pipes for a vga chipset?

[CmpFreak88]

From what I hear upping the voltage only fries the card unless you mod the card to up the voltages.

[AMD_Wannabe]

jsut adjust the clock speeds, use the radlinker program

[aarone]

thats what i meant....will i run into heating problems when i do this?

[virus]

Well generally no and yes it all depends on how far you go. eventually your start getting artifacts and "snow" and that basicly means that heat is a problem for you now. so it all depends on how far you go, but better cooling is never a bad thing.

[aarone]

should i just run the find max GPU clock speed to detect when i will get artifacts?

[virus]

Ya you can do but im pretty sure that, that is the max speed without a load on it. so if were to put it on that high oc and play a game it would most likely just freeze up on you.

 

I would recommend that you just start upping the core or memory at once or at the same time. Up them a little and go run like 3dmark03 or you could just play a demanding game for a few. and if you dont see any artifacts than go ahead and raise it some more. Take your time its never a good idea to OC in a hurry.

 

Once you start to see artifacts just lower it down a notch untill there gone. and there you go you will of succesfully OC'ed your card, and now run some benchmarks and see the improvement.