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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Graphic cards => Topic started by: Pampos on February 03, 2011, 03:08:43 pm
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Hi,i just want to ask if there are any recomended overclock settings for my card. Is it better not to overclock?
Help me please :)
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Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte forum.
Your card is overclocked already. That is what the SOC stands for Super Over Clock I doubt that you would be able to get any significant extra out of it.
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Yeah, considering high clocks out of the box with the SOC series you're most likely looking at a very slight gain. If you're really hardcore then with voltage increase you could probably get a more significant result. Take note that that would substantially increase power consumption and heat levels which would cause an increase in fan noise. There's also shorter life-time of the card to think about.
Anyway, here's a link to what you should expect: http://www.guru3d.com/article/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-460-soc-review/18
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thanks, im not a hardcore games just want to OC my card a little more,i didnt try to tweak voltake. Think only 10-15 mhz up would be ok!
I was trying to understood how you OC but now i thing it's ok running at 830mhz, and shader clock 1660 mhz and memory 1020mhz. Any advise for not much OC will be accepted :p
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Just run some benchmarks with stock clocks and then overclock little by little and compare results each time. As long as there are no artifacts / crashes and your score / fps increase compared to lower clocks it'll be fine.
Better monitor card temperatures as some benchmarks ( like Furmark ) result in higher power draw and temperatures than games.