ATI x1650 PCI express

[happeharkore]

i think its pro. is this an overclockable card? if so how would i go about doing this? im very noob on this, ive never done overclocking before

 

[hermeslyre]

You mean PCI-e? Yeah, anything that's utilizes a clock frequency to determine speed can be overclocked, you'd be surprised at the many thing you can try this on. But to OC a video card you'll need an inside Window application, like Ntune, rivatuner, or ATItool, any of these will work on your card. The actual overclocking process is fairly straight forward, using the program you would increase both core and memory clocks, checking for instability, artifacting and overheating (you can check temps with an app like pcwizard) along the way. test for these factor with a game, alternatively, atitool has a built in artifact detector. Artifacting is foreign junk on the screen, dots, lines, swerving vectors, crap.

Don't go crazy though! Most cards have a bit of overclocking headroom in the very beginning, you can afford a 20mhz jump at first, for example. afterwards smaller jumps. Pull back when the card becomes unstable, too hot, etc. Just remember that it's very hard to ruin anything while overclocking your video card. Even if you act like a mad-man and increase the clocks by a 100mhz, the pc will simply reboot, overclock gone.

Any questions?

 

[happeharkore]

You mean PCI-e? Yeah, anything that's utilizes a clock frequency to determine speed can be overclocked, you'd be surprised at the many thing you can try this on. But to OC a video card you'll need an inside Window application, like Ntune, rivatuner, or ATItool, any of these will work on your card. The actual overclocking process is fairly straight forward, using the program you would increase both core and memory clocks, checking for instability, artifacting and overheating (you can check temps with an app like pcwizard) along the way. test for these factor with a game, alternatively, atitool has a built in artifact detector. Artifacting is foreign junk on the screen, dots, lines, swerving vectors, crap.

Don't go crazy though! Most cards have a bit of overclocking headroom in the very beginning, you can afford a 20mhz jump at first, for example. afterwards smaller jumps. Pull back when the card becomes unstable, too hot, etc. Just remember that it's very hard to ruin anything while overclocking your video card. Even if you act like a mad-man and increase the clocks by a 100mhz, the pc will simply reboot, overclock gone.

Any questions?

i probably will in the morning when i actually try it out. i already downloaded ati tool cause i used that before when i was thinking of overclocking an older card. but i didnt see anything in there i understood how to do. but thank you for the info. anyone else or you can drop any useful tips here if you would. thanx again ^_^