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    Posted: 14 Nov 2008 at 9:24am
Hi all,
 
I'm a newb, and it seems that I can adjust my fan speed via EVGA Precision, but it also seems like I can OC if I wanted to.  I have an xfx 9800gtx+, and am running at:
740 core
1836 Shader
1100 memory
according to EVGA. 
 
Questions, 1) if I mess with this does it void my warranty (adjusting fan speed or other settings)?  2) if not, anyone know how high I can/should set them? 
 
Also, if this requires changing anything else in the PC, I'm not ready yet, but this looked easy, and it'd be my first "tweak".
 
Thanks in advance.
 


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Check Out This Thread and see if it helps any
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so do I want to go up 6% at a time, or that's all the increase I should go with?  My idle temp is 32 and in game (hellgate london) I saw it up to 43, but people were saying that 80's are ok, is that true with my card as well? 

Thanks for the link, it was very helpful
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i believe it was skyR who mentioned it in the thread, but increase in increments .  dont get to agressive , but play with it a little bit. you can only learn from your mistakes. i had mine up to high earlier and ran vantage and my system shut down. i brang it down a bit, and im stable and my temps are good . so fiddle with it, and see what you can come up with. just watch your temps .
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and as harley said , your not gunna see much of a difference with the high end cards like the 9800's and the 200 series . at least i didn't see much of a difference. maybe a couple of fps but nothing crazy
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well, I went up 6% on the core and shader, and a bit less on memory, played for 30 min, temps never were over 40.  Do I want to increase the core/shader (locked) and the memory proportionally, or one more than the other?
 
I think I have my benchmark vantage score somewhere, I'll play with this and see if it improves at all later.  Thanks for the help guys, much appreciated.
 
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so if I run the test each time and it passes, and my temps don't get to 80, I shouldn't wreck anything?
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ok, I'll leave it a 6% over then, run vantage and see if it matters
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well iv played with mine a bit and anything over 650/1399/1200 gets unstable and or to hot for my comfort. i'v been playing with it some , im sure i can push it a BIT more. but at those setting im seeing quality FPS
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what % over stock is that for you?  I ran 3dMark 05, and it looked terrible at one point with the OC, so I went back to stock.  I think my + is oc'd from the factory, so maybe I shouldn't go so high?
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Stock clocks for a 9800 GTX+ is ~730/1800/1100 so you do not have a factory overclocked card. You can get them pretty high if you have proper cooling and get lucky with a nice chip, ~850/2000/1200
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poser.... stock for me is 602/1296/1107 i have mine up to 675/1453/1200 and it runs awesome . thing is . i keep it at stock settings unless im playing a game. if im gunna be playing a game, ill load a profile in precision that has my OC'd settings set, but other then that i keep it stock.


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jtspectra2, that is a good way of doing it, rivatuner does the same thing, both are great apps.

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Actually OCing a GPU is worth it, especially if you game at high resolutions. OCing a 4870 X2's memory clock by just 50mhz can give you a 10-15 fps improvement.
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ok well after about an hour of fiddleing with it and getting BSODs and shutdowns cuase of my card being clocked to high , i finally found a sweet spot. this thing is BLAZING..

anyway for all you gtx280 owners out there. try this 712/1532/1254. seems to work wonders for my card. 
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Which GPU do you have HM ??
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Haven't had too much of a chance to play with it, but when I rand 3DMark05, I noticed that the picture got ugly in one of the more intensive scenes when I had the setting turned up 6%, so I've backed it back down. 

I thought the gtx+ (which is what my DSO ppwk says I have) is an OC'd card to begin with?
 
Also, would there be a reason to up the core/shader and not the memory, or vice versa.  I don't know much about cards, so I don't really know what each component of it is responsible for.
 
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your core and shader are more important then your memory.

for folding for example I only oc the shader and leave the core and memory alone.

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I saw something about folding@home on my ps3, but to be honest, I have no idea what it is, anyone care to explain?
 
What about for gaming?
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folding@home is a program that folds protein which then helps find cures for things like cancer and other diseases.

for gaming you want to concentrate more on core and some on memory

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lol dst 
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