Vista and Video Card overclocking

  • Thread starter Thread starter Roger McDonnell
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Roger McDonnell said:
can anyone tell me how i can overclock with Vista!!

You can't but then you couldn't with XP either.

Overclocking is down to either the drivers you install from the card
manufacturer, or 3rd party utilities from some of the fan websites and the
like.
 
Nvidia cards you can overclock through the nvidia control panal download add
on NTUNE. I used the xp version and it did fine for me under every driver
version for vista so far.

Ati has a similar feture but I am not familiar with it . Hope this helps.



ADM Dual core 4200 +fx 2.75 Ghz
Total amount of system memory 2.75 GB RAM
System type 32-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
64-bit capable Yes

Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 373 GB
Disk partition (C:) 223 GB Free (298 GB Total)
Media drive (D:) CD/DVD
Media drive (E:) CD/DVDCD/DVD
Disk partition (F:) 72 GB Free (75 GB Total)

Graphics
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Dual Sli Nvidia 7900 GS
Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Total available graphics memory 750 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 256 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 494 MB
Display adapter driver version 7.15.10.9746
Primary monitor resolution 1280x1024
DirectX version DirectX 9.0 or better

Network
 
Download two free programs called NiBiTor and NVFlash. Use NVFlash to create
a bootable floppy that will flash the video card's BIOS. Then go into NiBiTor
and use it to create a new BIOS for the video card. Just go to tools>read
BIOS>select your card>Go back to tools>Read BIOS>Read into NiBiTor. This will
bring up your clock speeds. You can manually enter in the new Core and memory
clocks and then save the file to the floppy with Nnvflash. This will update
the BIOS. Just rememer what you name the NiBiTor file because you will have
to specify by typing nvflash <the file name>.rom.

ex: a:\nvflash modified_BIOS.rom

Just follow the prompts and it will update it very quickly. Just remember to
also save your original BIOS on the floppy as well in case anything goes
wrong. I did this in small increments until I reached a performance wall.
Worked Great!
 
Sorry, I forgot to specify that this is only for Nvidia cards. I did this on
n 8800GTX
 
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