How do you overclock a video card?

[swifferman]

I just got a PCI XTASY 9200SE at Best Buy for $50 and it doesn't even have a fan on it and I know overclocking makes it hotter, so if I added a fan, couldn't I overclock it safely quite easily?

Right?

Could someone please tell me how?

(That thread the speed stick made is gone thanks to the asswipe)

[C.J.]

If you don't know how to, you probably shouldn't be doing it. ;)

[swifferman]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
NukeBlaze edited my post. What did it say before about David?

I can't remember...

:(

[=NukeBlaze=]

I usually edit posts with swearing in my forum. ( It actually said everything you had , except with "asswipe" greyed out. (P.S. - Grey does note exist.)


The best overlocker for graphical cards would be "Powerstrip". You can get it here. PowerStrip (http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm)

I would be cautious in overclocking, you card does not have an active (A fan) heatsink for your GPU on the Graphics card. And the Radeon 9200 is not a very speedy card, handicaped further by the SE symbols. Should have consulted someone before buying that card!

I suppose you could try to mount a fan, but I would be careful. There are almost "0" safe ways to pop off the old heant sink, so I would not reccomend attempting to remove it.

[r33hash]

Your computer is going to catch fire and fry your hands and eyes!


Good luck

[Nights]

Hmmm

I have a 9800 pro so I never had a reason to overclock it.

There are radeon programs to overclock the older cards.

[swifferman]

Yeah but it was dirt cheap nukeblaze. $70 with a $20 mail in rebate at best buy. It's PCI btw, and i had a bitch trying to find one for cheap (Canadian dollars)

See what I'm going to do is just get like 3 Big fan's and put em in my case and screw em to the case not directly on the card but only like 5 cm away. I figure I'll have some nice big fan's circulating and cooling my computerator that it should be fine.

Thanks for the link nukelbaze!

(not a typo...That's your new nickname)

[speed stick]

^Thats should keep the Card cool. If I had a desktop computer I would go ahead and overclock my video card. But I have a laptop and can't risk killing the video card that is build into the processor.

If the video card is cheap and can be overclocked, I would try it out so you can get the feel of how to do it when it comes down to a good expensive video card.

[=NukeBlaze=]

AHHHHH! PCI BASED GRAPHICS CARDS!

[MrX]

Hey i have a S3 Savage4 Agp by the way :headbang: it has a big ars heat sink but i have like 3 fans in my comp one on the hard drive one on my video card and one on my memory they are 4 in each.

[sniper006]

I have a similiar graphics card (Ati9200SE stealth) its 128mb if yours is 128mb i dont see why you would want to overclock it in the first place unless you really wanna play a game at the highest resolution with decals on highest.