I'd really like to use Riva Tuner to beef up my 6800 but for some reason my just-built PC doesn't want to download it, from anywhere. It's so bloody annoying. I hate to do this but do any of you happen to have a recent version of Riva Tuner that you wouldn't mind attaching to a post as a zip file? Thanks so much, and sorry about mooching off you guys like this.
There really isn't any need at all to overclock your 6800, if you've got a new system i would just use it as it is, the 6800 will run new games such as HL2 / Doom3 on full graphics at a very nice frame rate, even at multiplayer level. There really won't be that much performance gain for you, and you risk the fact that you might damage the card.. and i wouldn't use Riva Tuner i would use the inbuilt overclocking utility called "Coolbits 2.0" goto your desktop: right click, goto properties, goto "Settings", at the bottom of the box, click "advanced" - in the new box thats opened select the tab that says: "GeForce 6800" now you'll get a small menu appear as an addon on your left of the new box, select "Clock Frequency Settings", then you select: "Manual Overclock". Make sure you have selected "Performance 3D" under the drop down menu called "settings" (by default it says "Performance 2D") Now don't do anything yourself.. here click the: "Detect Optimal Frequencies" This will safely find your cards maximum overclock - and it doesn't take long If you don't have this option available it's because its hidden, Nvidia disabled it automatically via a registry string, so download and run this: Enjoy :good:
Thanks ProcalX, that is actually what I did shortly after I installed XP and loaded all my drivers. Coolbits is a great program, I'm glad it was included on the driver CD. You don't think I'd notice 4 extra pipelines and 1 additional vertex shader though...?
Okay, I did some tweaking and got myself RivaTuner, I'm pretty sure I enable the extra pipelines but I don't know for sure. How do I figure out whether it worked or not? I guess I could try FarCry again and see if it helped, I ran 3Dmark03 and it didn't make a difference on the first test so I quit. Also, I thought I had overclocked my video card but whenever I go back into display preferences and look at my cards clock frequencies they say what they did when I first installed the darn thing! Why won't it overclock? I've tried this same process at least 4 times to no avial, whats up with it? Thanks.
