Overclocking a Geforce 4 ti 4280P

[gigercom]

I have an 128MB Albatron Geforce 4 Ti4280P and I'm new to overclocking,..is ther any good resources (programs, tutorial websites, etc) that can help me out with overlocking?

What do I have to look out for when overclocking a video card?
Also,..how do yo "Benchmark" a card?

I have also heard that playing Half Life 2 cuold be a problem with this card? Is this true? Could overclocking help?

Thanks!!!

-Chris

My system:

Dell Dimension 8200
(Yeah I know,... it's a Dell, oh well, it works good for me)
Pentium 4 Processor at 1.9 Ghz
250W MAX Power supply
Windows XP Professional
512MB PC 800 NON-ECC RDRAM (2 - 256MB RIMMS)
Albatron NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X 128Mb (Ti4280P)
Creative SB Live! Value (WDM) Sound Card
1.44 MB Floppy Drive
WDC Internal EIDE Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM 40GB HD
WDC Internal EIDE Ultra ATA/100 7200RPM 60GB HD
Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI Controller Card
External SCSI Drive Bay Quantum Atlas III 18.2 GB HD (With power supply)
Internal SCSI Zip Drive
Internal USB 2.0 PCI Card (4 Ports)
10/100 PCI Ethernet NIC
SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616 16X
TDK VeloCD CDR-RW Drive CDRW161040
20.1" Dell Ultra sharp 2000FP LCD monitor

[Darthgary]

I have an 128MB Albatron Geforce 4 Ti4280P and I'm new to overclocking,..is ther any good resources (programs, tutorial websites, etc) that can help me out with overlocking?

For a good overclocking proggy try this

http://66.227.107.157/ps.htm

What do I have to look out for when overclocking a video card? how do yo "Benchmark" a card?

Instability...... To benchmark a video card, go to www.futuremark.com and download the free version on 3D Mark 01 for DX 8 testing, for DX9 testing then download 3DMark 03.
When you overclock using power strip take the core up little by little untill you see artifacts in the video which looks like little glitches or it starts to lock up your system, when you reach the maximum you can do withought seeing artifacts then do the same with the memory clock

[tony_j15]

I have also heard that playing Half Life 2 cuold be a problem with this card? Is this true? Could overclocking help?

No, HL2 will run fine on your card. Of course, you wont be able to run it with all the eye candy turned on. HL2 is DX9 and your card is only DX8.

[gigercom]

I am kind of new to all this overclocking and stuff,...what exactly is Direct X? I really am not sure.... Thanks so much this would really clear up alot.

-Chris

[Darthgary]

www.nvidia.com

"Direct X is a hardware abstraction layer API from Microsoft that is integral to the Windows® operating system. The DirectX standard includes Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectDraw, DirectVideo, DirectPlay, and DirectInput. Microsoft continues to revise DirectX to make it the industry standard consumer graphics API"

www.microsoft.com

At the core of DirectX are its application programming interfaces, or APIs. The APIs act as a kind of bridge for the hardware and the software to "talk" to each other. The DirectX APIs give multimedia applications access to the advanced features of high-performance hardware such as three-dimensional (3-D) graphics acceleration chips and sound cards. They control low-level functions, including two-dimensional (2-D) graphics acceleration; support for input devices such as joysticks, keyboards, and mice; and control of sound mixing and sound output. Because of DirectX, what you experience with your computer is better 3-D graphics and immersive music and audio effects.