Help on overclock my video card

Roxflynorth · Post #1 » by **Roxflynorth** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:32 am

I've a evga 7300 GT AGP 512 video card and I tried to overclock in Vista. However no matter what software I use (rivatuna, ntune, atitools...) after I set the clock up and then 1 sec later it just went back to its default value. Is there anyone here expert on Computers can help me? thx

Texas Longhorns · Post #2 » by **Texas Longhorns** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:42 am

hmm..

tha_rock220 · Post #3 » by **tha_rock220** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:10 am

Do you have the latest drivers for your card??

Jaykoolzboy · Post #4 » by **Jaykoolzboy** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:17 am

Roxflynorth wrote:I've a evga 7300 GT AGP 512 video card and I tried to overclock in Vista. However no matter what software I use (rivatuna, ntune, atitools...) after I set the clock up and then 1 sec later it just went back to its default value. Is there anyone here expert on Computers can help me? thx

Couple thing I am going to inform you

1. There is no point to OC a 7300GT, you won't see any legitimate improvement, if i am not mistaken it's a 4 pixel shader pipeline and 2 vertax shader design. That means you probably going to get 1 fps or less for most of the modern game.

2. If you really want to OC, use Rivtaner for all Nvidia card - go for system setting in rivatuner then check mark the enable driver level hardware overclocking, after than switch the standard 2D to performance 3d, then tweak your clock speed and memory speed to your ideal speed (use ati tool to determine whether there is artifacts or not) if you see artifacts in Ati-Tool slow down your clock frequencies and lower it to the last non-artifacts speed. after that check mark the startup setting then check the apply overclock speed at windows start up .

3. You probably need to adjust your fan speed as well to make sure your card isn't OH.

Again I strongly not suggest people do OC with low ended card like GF6200,7300,ATi x550,x1300, basically you gain nothing but shorten the life spam of the card.

Last thing is that I am a Technician, if any Rockets fan having any kinda of Computer related question, Don't be hesitant to PM or ask me.

midnight · Post #5 » by **midnight** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:28 am

nvm, i got it working :clap:

Roxflynorth · Post #6 » by **Roxflynorth** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:30 am

[quote="Jaykoolzboy"][/quote]

Thx for your advice. The problem persist even when I click the "apply overclocking at startup" and I restart the machine. I turn the monitor thing on to check the core speed and it turned its value back to its default value after all. I did try to go to other forums and someone suggested me to flash my bios but I felt its not safe. I did update all my driver (forceware to 169.25) and riva tuner to 2.06. The reason I want to overclock a bit because I play pes 2008 normal display mode a little slow (very little).
I don't know if there are issues overclock in vista because many people say xp is more compatible for overclocking. I don't know if there are any hardware conflict. But anyway, heres my sysinfo:

P4/2.8/800(overclocking to 3.0)
ASUS P4P8X-SE
EVGA 7300GT AGP
3GB PC 3200
WinVista 32-bit Ultimate