Overclocking

[RedrumSalad]

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

[Scott]

Talk to Steve hes pretty good with overclocking.

[.Simon.]

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.

[RedrumSalad]

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

[RedrumSalad]

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":

[Mstenger404]

PFffff windows xp

[RedrumSalad]

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

[Steve]

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

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

[RedrumSalad]

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