Can someone tell me the basic procedure? I am most curious if this is hardware (soldering and the like which I don’t want to do) or just software tuners.
Thanks!
Did u find out anything about your GeForce to 200? What is “overclocking” and why would u want to do it? Thanks for helping out an obvious newbie.
i saw an article somewhere about overclocking a ti 200 to almost ti 500 speeds. I’ll see if i can find it and post a link for u. oh, and i think you can do it througn software with rivatuner.
edit: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q4/…orce-ti-27.html
http://www.guru3d.com/rivatuner/
RivaTuner. It has a good overclocking utility and SoftQuadro. If you’ve got an nVidia based card RivaTuner does pretty much everything you could need.
nebula1, overclocking is simply running hardware at higher speeds than default. It’s mostly associated with CPUs, where someone changes motherboard settings to run their 800 Athlon at 1200, for example. Since most parts can run faster than what they’re sold as you can get a free performance boost. Manufacturers tend to be conservative in the speeds that they sell products at; if CPUs, RAM, etc. aren’t being run at their limits they have less failures. In the case of video cards you end up with a software program that can alter the clockspeeds of both the video processor and video memory in order to squeeze extra performance out of the card. The only difference between a Ti200 and Ti500 is clockspeed so you can buy a Ti200 for half the price of a Ti500 and get the same performance if you can overclock it to Ti500 specs.
Overclocking can damage hardware and will void your warranty but done with care it’s quite safe as long as you don’t get too crazy. The main thing is to never sacrifice stability for a small increase in performance. I mildly overclock my machines (using quality cooling) but I don’t do it when I build machines for other people unless they specifically want me to.