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Name: PC Freak
Date: April 21, 2008 at 12:19:06 Pacific
OS: Vista Home/Business
CPU/Ram: 2.2GHz/1GB DDR2
Product: Custom
Comment:

Hello, I just overclocked my nVidia GeForce 8500GT...

Core Clock: 459MHz to 727MHz
Memory: 800MHz to 930MHz

What I would like to know is, how much heat can a GPU handle before overheating?

PC1:
- Asus M2V-MX SE Motherboard
- AMD Athlon 64 4200 X2 Dual Core CPU, 2.2GHz
- 1GB DDR667 Memory Module, DDR2
- nVidia GeForce 8500GT 512MB

PC2:
- Core2Duo Laptop/1GB DDR2



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Response Number 1
Name: PC Freak
Date: April 21, 2008 at 12:25:36 Pacific
Reply:

The Overheating alarm on nVidia Monitor is set to 127C default, is that to high? I just ran a benchmarking program after overclocking, and the GPU hit over 70C, is that to hot?

I don't know much about overclocking so any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

PC1:
- Asus M2V-MX SE Motherboard
- AMD Athlon 64 4200 X2 Dual Core CPU, 2.2GHz
- 1GB DDR667 Memory Module, DDR2
- nVidia GeForce 8500GT 512MB

PC2:
- Core2Duo Laptop/1GB DDR2


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Response Number 2
Name: npham01
Date: April 21, 2008 at 15:44:09 Pacific
Reply:

couple of questions....
1) What mfg?
2) What did you use to OC?
3) Did you check tech specs?


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Response Number 3
Name: lil leo
Date: April 21, 2008 at 16:14:36 Pacific
Reply:

ask for dragon on these forums, he has best knowlege jam and ohill are amatuers

u need ram to clock ur card too


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Response Number 4
Name: jam
Date: April 21, 2008 at 16:38:54 Pacific
Reply:

The 8500GT isn't a very good card to begin with...overclocking will help performance somewhat, but it can't make up for the fact that it only has 16 stream processors. I'm guessing that the card you have uses GDDR2 memory. The "better" versions uses GDDR3.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...

But for about the same price, you can get an 8600GT w/32 stream processors.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...

BTW, lil leo, "u need ram to clock ur card too" is a pretty "amatuer-ish" statement in itself. Please honor us with your extreme PC knowledge & elaborate.


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Response Number 5
Name: krayzii
Date: April 21, 2008 at 17:23:25 Pacific
Reply:

i've only clocked my 8600GT to 650MHz and it's running fine :D

lil leo you monkey stop trolling


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Response Number 6
Name: jam
Date: April 21, 2008 at 18:13:37 Pacific
Reply:

The "Alpha Dog Edition" comes factory overclocked at 620MHz

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...


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Response Number 7
Name: PC Freak
Date: April 22, 2008 at 11:35:56 Pacific
Reply:

The program I used to OC was just nTune.

PC1:
- Asus M2V-MX SE
- Athlon 64 4200+ X2 @ 2.2GHz
- 1GB DDR2 @ 667MHz
- nVidia GeForce 8500GT 512MB OC @ 729/932MHz

PC2:
- Core2Duo Laptop/1GB DDR2


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Response Number 8
Name: quarantinedjk
Date: April 25, 2008 at 19:49:44 Pacific
Reply:

i got a en8500gt in my htpc..

got a 77c without oc
80c when oc 700/930
+100c when load

these temps are too hot...

solution..

screw a 80mm slim fan on the gfx card heatsink

49c when idle
51c when oc
62c when load


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Response Number 9
Name: ...
Date: May 11, 2008 at 17:57:02 Pacific
Reply:

It all depends on your exact video card. No two cards will perform exactly the same. If you are going to do a big overclock like that, you really need to introduce more cooling. It might run fine when you're word processing, but it'll skyrocket when you get into high-intensive games.


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