Underclocking a video card?
Posted in Hardware on July 29th, 2008
My PC's been going through lots of overheating problems. Sometimes, even in desktop, i get a few coloured dots that show up. In intensive games, like crysis i get loads of these, but they are dots and barely visible.
I heard that underclocking my video card can help lower temperatures. If i do this, i know it lowers performance, but does that mean that i can't play games that i could before?
how far can i underclock my graphics card without losing too much performance, aswell as cooling it down?
nVidia GeForce 7900GS
Latest drivers
256 MB memory
Core Clock 450 MHz
Memory Clock 660 MHz
Answer:
Just so the asker knows, I recommend you do not follow the advice of the person directly above me. The 8600 GT is garbage, and performs far worse than the 7900GS you currently have.
Answer:
Purchase a new graphics card that thing's garbage. Try a GeForce 8600GT. It'll solve your overheating problems and increase performance.
But if you wanted to underclock it the ideal way would be to limit the video card's performance through the BIOS. Just Google “underclocking GPU BIOS” that should help you.
Answer:
put an aftermarket cooler on it with arctic silver 5. i use this cooler and my GPU never gets above 40C at 100% load…
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as…
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