Overclocking Safe or Not

[DarkWater]

Hi All

I have a

Gainward GeForce 6800GT AGP Goldensample

Default clocks are 350/1000 and goldensample clocks are 400/1100.

i've overclocked to goldensample speeds and ran 3dmark 01/03/05...no problems....what I did notice is that there is artifact tearing in titan quest's intro screen and thq video...but no problems in the game whatsoever.

so here's the rundown

350/1000 - stock
400/1000 - no artifacts in Titan Quest intro....all benchmarks clear
400/1100 - artifacts in Titan Quest intro but game runs fine...all benchmarks fine.

What do u people recommend....is it the game that is sensitive to overclocking...

 

[supersunbird]

It probably uses a certain part of the GPU and the memory to display those prerendered videos and those areas are sensitive to the overclocking...

/my uneducated guess

 

[Vl@d]

On my 7800GS Titan quest picked up spikes till I patched to version 1.15

Normal clockspeeds (350/1200) or overclocked (500/1400) didn't show any difference. But I did see just over 20K increase in Aquamark.......

 

[DarkWater]

Yes it only seems to do the artifact in intro thing when i overclock memory

 

[willirob]

probably overheating - get some cooling

 

[DarkWater]

Nope not overheating....Zalman Cooler

45 idle
52 load

 

[willirob]

memory probably maxed out

 

[DarkWater]

memory probably maxed out

nope.... according to gainward the golden sample guarantees 1100 Memory clock speed.