How much should I overclock?

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#1 ia-sneakpeek
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How much should I overclock my geforce 8600gt 256mb if the tempreture is 57 celcius when Im not playing games?
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#2 bkrawk
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what's the temperature when u do play?
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#3 ia-sneakpeek
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I'm not sure. But I think its about 78 celcius when I play crysis
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#4 dayaccus007
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make a medium overclock and run 3dmark 2006, watch the temps too, if they go over 80C you will have problems while gaming
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#5 ia-sneakpeek
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And whats and medium overclock too you?
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#6 dayaccus007
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something like 70-80Mhz to GPU and 120Mhz to memory
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#7 yoyo462001
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something like 70-80Mhz to GPU and 120Mhz to memorydayaccus007
ye that is what you should be able to get on stock cooler...
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#8 BLKR4330
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Maybe I'm oldfashioned, but if you want to overclock I think you should know what you are doing and put some effort into it. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Raise the frequencies in small steps, test stability and temperature and repeat the process until you find that sweet-spot.
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Maybe I'm oldfashioned, but if you want to overclock I think you should know what you are doing and put some effort into it. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Raise the frequencies in small steps, test stability and temperature and repeat the process until you find that sweet-spot.BLKR4330
Easier said than done when you have no previous OCing experience.
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#10 rickykemp
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[QUOTE="BLKR4330"]Maybe I'm oldfashioned, but if you want to overclock I think you should know what you are doing and put some effort into it. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Raise the frequencies in small steps, test stability and temperature and repeat the process until you find that sweet-spot.Spartan8907
Easier said than done when you have no previous OCing experience.

and you know what else is easier when you have no experience overclocking?

destroying that expensive new GPU by following the advice of someone to just jump straight in and bump up the clock speeds, regardless of the fact that we know nothing about their system.