Overclocking my Video Card

[Overcooked]

Hi Everyone,
I want to overclock my video card. It is a PNY FX5200 Ultra 128MB. I am going to get a new card in a couple of months when the prices drop when the new gereration cards come out. So i thought i would play around with this one.

Any way how do i go about doing this? It has stock cooling (heatsink and fan that covers the memory and gpu) and i have excelent air flow. Will i have to upgrade the cooling? I can stick a diode on the bottom to keep an eye on the temps.

Also how would i overclock the card. Do i have to adjust the bios or is there a program that will let me do it.

Thank you everyone and i look foreward to you advice.

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http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/a_coolbits/

with that card, dont expect great results in overclocking

[Overcooked]

Really?
I thought i might be able to get some kind of performance gain. Untill i get a new card. Thanks for the link.
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well the 5200 isnt a great card in the first place, so overclocking it wont really do much to the preformance. you might see an increase in benchmark test. but nothing to write home about

[Overcooked]

Ok,
I was hoping i could smooth out some of the lags i am having but i guess ill just have to wait. For a new card.

I am lookin at FX5900 or a Radeon 9800 Pro.

Any advice on what to get?

Thanks,
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[MitaDC]

9800Pro

[The Punisher]

How does the ti 4200 overclock, anyone have experience doing ocing with one of these cards or know anything about it.

[fpantovich]

The Ti4200 is probably the best OCer in the TI bunches of nVidia's card...do you have the 128MB or 64MB memory version? Overall, the 64's OCed a little better than the 128's only because they put much higher quality RAM on the 64's....I HAD a 4200 64MB card that I bought when they first started making the cards...very nice OC, don't remember the numbers, but I know it made a huge improvement, heh...that cards still running at stock speeds in my wife's computer now...depending on the manufacturer, you should be able to get atleast a 25-30% increase out of your card with stock cooling as I did...just remember to always go little by little...I went up in 5MHz increments until I hit a bad spot, then dropped it 10 and went up in 1MHz increments and tested every time I went up....that was for the CPU....the memory I went up 10MHz increments and then when I hit a bad spot dropped only 15 and went up in 1MHz increments testing every time...worked out pretty nicely...not many people take their time to OC their components and then they usually complain about not being able to OC their system as well as others even though they probably could if they knew how to do it properly, heh...good luck with the OC...

[Overcooked]

Well i ran 3dmark and got a 7329 with the default settings. After working with it i got it stable and scored 10078. That pretty good for me. I got the lags out of UT2004.

Thanks for the help!

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[douglas55]

I vote for the 9800 Pro