Is overclocking video cards a no no here?

[thasainted41]

No one lately has talked about overclocking their cards when it seems it can help those with a middle of the line video card. Me i'm running a pentium 4 2.80 ghz pc with 2gb ram and a ati radeon hd 2400 pro card.

i was averaging 20 fps on high settings now i average 30 fps on high using
ATI-TOOL app for overclocking. i probably can get more fps but i'm not
ready to push my card hard yet.

[noballer08]

I have a Dell XPS M1530 with an 8600GT. I use RivaTuner and pretty much just jack it up just enough to get me a 5-7 FPS increase or so. I also make sure the temp is under 80 (it stays around 76 during 5v5 gameplay). I run player textures on Ultra High, everything else on High, and crowd on Medium, and get between 30-40 FPS.

[Oreo.]

i wouldnt mess around with stuff you highly don't know about.

plus it's one game, i wouldn't damage my computer over it.

[noballer08]

i wouldnt mess around with stuff you highly don't know about.

plus it's one game, i wouldn't damage my computer over it.

As long as you use a safe, understandable program and you don't decide to overclock it so much that it would fry your card, there's nothing to it. However, 9 times out of 10 overclocking will void your warranty.

[Oreo.]

i wouldnt mess around with stuff you highly don't know about.

plus it's one game, i wouldn't damage my computer over it.

As long as you use a safe, understandable program and you don't decide to overclock it so much that it would fry your card, there's nothing to it. However, 9 times out of 10 overclocking will void your warranty.

yeah, for that just get a new card if you can afford it at these times.

[JWL3]

Video cards don't have a high tolerance for overclocking. Some of them are even already factory overclocked beyond ATI and Nvidia's specs.

Unlike CPU's where (some) you can get +25% or better performance (A Q6600 with stock 2.4Ghz has been known to be OC'd to 3.8Ghz, + 59%), video cards can do at best +10%. And you'd be stressing it significantly. A part of this is because Vcards have shit heatsinks whereas with CPU's you can plug in a massive heatsink or even water cooling.

Tom's Hardware Guide overclocked a Radeon 4850, 4870, Nvidia GTX 260, and 280 and squeezed out only about 10% of performance on average. Not worth killing your $300 card over.