Overclocking
 

Hey guys, I have been having kinda low performance with ARMA 2 (who woulda guessed?) and i got nTune (a clocking program from nVidia) and was wondering: who knows how to correctly overclock or just boost the performance of my nVidia Geforce 9500GT using nTune? i did try the "fine tune" option that takes 3 hours, but it crashes my computer...a lot (it said that it will crash and "hang" but will resume upon reboot) and 3 hours later it was only 20 minutes in :(

so i wanted to manually clock it, and decided to see if anybody here knows how to

Thanks

Talk to Steve :) hes pretty good with overclocking.

If you don't have one or haven't already done it, but a fan for your gpu ;P I've looked into overclocking a few times and temperatures seem like the biggest limitation. Airflow is importatnt for performance.

the only thing i've messed with is the GPU settings. idk how GPU demanding ARMA 2 is, but i did notice quite a bit less lag when i messed with it....then, unfortunately, an error occured when i was in a battle i set up, causing the display to change weird colors. it happened in the middle of another battle in the same session i was playing, i pressed ctrl+alt+delete, then went back to the game and it fixed it. but the second time, it didn't work and as i rebooted my computer it said that the system has recovered from a serious error.

oh, and steve, if you look at this thread, please help :)

I tried an automatic "Coarse tuning" yesterday, and it saved a prfoile called "best setting"...it f***ed up the display so i had to do a system recovery to the day before :(

someone please help.

just in case, here's a picture of the summary of my computer in "Speccy":

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/893/speccyspecs.png

PFffff windows xp :rolleyes:

haha, shut up. its the only windows os that i like lol

yeah arma is a bit of a bitch on the system, it's hungry for whatever you have cpu, gpu, ram, hard disk.

i think it's more dependant on CPU if i remember correctly, i have an ok system but struggle a bit with arma, the guys with quad cores seem to be having a better time.

arma has an interesting feature, it streams textures off your hard drive only when it needs them but i think this causes a lot of problems for players, it would be pretty handy to have arma installed on a different drive i would think.

ive never been into overclocking the gfx card because ive never seen that much gains and have borked the memory on more than one card :D

if it screws up the memory it starts to look like this: http://i28.tinypic.com/2vct7ac.jpg
http://attachments.techguy.org/attac...pt-display.jpg

but dont worry to omuch, just take it easy and push up the speeds slowly... yeah it's a pain in the ass but hey not as much as a dead gfx card.

grab gpuz: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ it will tell you everything you need to know about your card and a ton of things you dont.

here's a guide for nvid overclocking, ok it's a differeent card, but the software is the same, http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforc...rclock-guide/2

plenty of youtube guides which seem to be pretty good these days compaired to pages of text.




overclocking phenom x4 :D http://www.guru3d.com/article/phenom...g-masterclass/

OK Steve, thanks. I'll look into overclocking Phenom x4, because i don't have a problem with my current graphics

EDIT: woah woah...liquid nitrogen!?! bulls**t!

EDIT (again): OK, thanks Steve, i got it at 2.7ghz from the previous 2.3ghz