I have nvidia GeforceFX 5200 128M 8xAGP from pandex and I was just wondering if I should overclock this? What is a good program to overclock this? What does it make when you overclock videocards? When to go know that you over limit it. Doesn't the video card will burn out in 1 - 2 years? Does it make any difference? Thanks!

"What is a good program to overclock this?" Powerstrip (www.entechtaiwan.com) is a great program for this. But it cost $30. Search google for coolbits tweak to do it for free. "What does it make when you overclock videocards?" It makes the videocards memory and gpu (graphics processing unit) run faster that they are supposed to. "When to go know that you over limit it." Your pc will lock up or reboot. Artifacts on the screen are also a key symptom. "Doesn't the video card will burn out in 1 - 2 years?" Yes it will make your videocard die sooner then it would not overclocked. I don't know how much sooner. I ran one videocard oc'd for three years without any problems. If you add extra cooling this is minimized. "Does it make any difference?" It really depends on how much you can overclock the card by. I have my card oc'd to 333/433 (default is 250/333) and it does make a difference. Sandman An Official Microsoft Minion. ÿ

*Fill rate is the speed at which a graphics card can render pixels. Raw pixel fill rate is calculated by multiplying the number of pixel pipelines in the GPU by its clock speed. The R3x0 core used on the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro has eight pixel pipelines, with a single texture unit per pipe, and is clocked at a default speed of 380mhz. Using the formula above, we find that the 9800 Pro's peak pixel fill rate is 3.04 gigapixels per second (8 pipelines x 380mhz = 3040 megapixels per second). If the clock speed of the core is raised to 400mhz, the peak fill rate becomes 3.2 gigapixels per second, an increase of 160 megapixels per second. Because the GPU can draw more pixels on the screen when its overclocked, its thus capable of producing higher frame rates. The avalible memory bandwith between the GPU and onboard RAM also goes up with higher clock speeds. To derive the total memory bandwith for a given product, multiply the memory bus width in bytes by the speed of the memory. Looking at the specifications of the ATi Radeon 9800 Pro, we see that it utilizes a 256-bit wide memory interface with memory clocked by default at an effective speed of about 680MHz DDR(340mhz actual). To get the bus width in bytes, we must first divide 256 bits by 8 (8 bits equals 1 byte), which give us 32 bytes. Now that we have all of the neccesary values, we plug them into the formula to find that a stock Radeon 9800 Pro has a peak of 21.76gbps of memory bandwith. Should the memory's clock speed be increased to 720mhz DDR(360mhz actual), the total amount of memory bandwith then jumps to 23.04gbps. Overclocking the GPU core will also allow it to process complex shader instructions more quickly, which will improve performance in the increasing number of games and applications that use them.* -CPU / PC Modder Magazine Error : Your cpu is not 1337 enough to view my sig

My friend, he has a Radeon 9800 PRO 128M... He still overclocks it to the max as well as hes motherboard. But nothing to working... He has 10 silent cooling fans and water cooling. Thanks for the info guys, but I choose not to overclock my card. Since I do not want it to burn out. Thanks!

Wise choice :) Most of the time the difference isn't that noticeable. Sandman An Official Microsoft Minion. ÿ

hye, well according to me u should not go for overclocking, since it may cause u to loose ur gfx card, it may blast off or burn withing 2-3 weeks. If u are asking for the overclocking only because of the lagging of certain games then u should not go for overclocking, but try slash down ur memory usage of ur comp. Since u are a XP user, this facility is easily available to all the XP users and tht is, right-click on my computer, then go to properties and then click on Advanced tab, there u'll see a option for visual effects there u select the checkbox which says "Adjust For Best Performance". This will definitely increase ur system speed causing u to play most of the games smoothly. Please reply to my opinion to my email id therock_inc84@hotmail.com, and dont reply here, u may also add me to ur msn contact list to chat with me anytime. cya bye take care

um..theROCK, overclocking will shorten the life span of the hardware but it will not burn out in 2-3 weeks(unless it has very bad cooling). I am overclocking my processor (Pentium 4 2.6ghz overclocked at 231 FSB at 13x Multiplier = 3.03 ghz) right now, and im having no problems right now. same with gpu, 440/760 w/o artifacting and overheating. there are certainly more ways to improve performance. you can set up raid0 using two hd's, add more ram, disable start-ups, enable dual-channel, etc. desktops & visual effects should never be a problem if you have a very fast processor, and they will barely(0.1%?) increase your gaming performance even if you set its option to *Adjust For Best Performance* Error : Your cpu is not 1337 enough to view my sig