Familiarize yourself with your videocard’s warranty before overclocking it—some manufacturers are more tolerant of overclocking than others. Asus, for instance, will flatly refuse to honor a warranty on a videocard that’s been overclocked after leaving the factory. Diamond’s senior marketing manager, Lisa Legnante, told us, “Overclocking is not promoted or recommended; however, we know that it happens.”
EVGA and XFX, on the other hand, have a liberal attitude about the matter. “EVGA will warranty cards that a customer overclocks as long as there is no physical damage to the product,” said EVGA’s director of technical marketing, Joe Darwin. EVGA and XFX both allow you to change the card’s cooler, too—provided you don’t damage the card in the process and that you retain the original cooler in case you need to return it to the manufacturer.
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PhoneyVirus
September 04, 2009 at 7:23pm
Just Tracking Thanks
RivaTuner I think you should get the right videocard for playing games before overclocking your videocard to get what 10FPS more.
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CadonMado
January 13, 2009 at 1:56pm
Just Curious.. do you think this would work for say laptop video cards?
I have an ASUS G2S-A1 (Specs as follows)
- Operating System
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium- Processor & Cache Memory
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T7500 2.2GHz, 4MB L2 Cache,800MHz FSB- Main Memory
2048MB DDR2 667Mhz (1GBx2)up to 4GB- Display
WUXGA (1920x1200)- Video Graphics & Memory
NV 8600M GT 256MB GDDR III (DX10)- Hard Drive
160GB 5400R SATA- Optical Drive
Super Multi w LS- 1GB Turbo Memory
My Video Card handles every game I play save Fallout 3. I know my problem stems from only having 256MB of VRAM when the Game Recomends 512MB min spec.
I am hoping that slightly goosing my video card might help ... but wanted to get a few knowledgeable opions before inadvertantly nuking my vid card.
Thanks in advance for any assistance/advice!
Cadon Mado
b00tpwnz4ll
March 17, 2008 at 12:33pm
There are a lot of different quality heatpipe kits out there so be gentle with yours and get to know it. Typically, the generic reference cooler design (as shown in this article) will jump as much as 30 degrees celsius from idle to load, so kinda base your findings off that. Idle averages are at ~53 degrees celsius and ~83 degrees celsius under heavy load (read: crysis) ... So if you're doing better than that with your heatpipe cooler, then by all means, give it some more juice. And yes, your case fans are a heatpipe system's best friend!
gleep
February 27, 2008 at 11:15am
My video card, which is in the lower-mid level range, has a heat pipe for cooling instead of a fan. Do you guys think overclocking this card is a bad idea? I can always increase the speed on my case fans to try to make up for extra heat.
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