[farksy]

Irritated by those testing of your clock settings problems ?

Fear no more ! With this guide, i ensure no software restraints of your Overclocking for graphics cards !

Ok. After facing some irritance from the testing and limits of Rivatuner, I fooled around with Riva's Poweruser section in a bid to make graphics card overclocking less of a hassle. I don't know whether this has been posted or not, but i'll just post it. =D

With this, you have a limit-free clock frequency for setting, and no need to test for settings before you can apply them! Doesn't it sound great ?

Note: This might cause your graphics card to have artifacts. By reading this, you take full responsibility to any damages caused to your graphics card.

Note: I'm also using a nVidia Graphics card now, so for Ati users you can try but i won't guarantee success.

First things first. I hope you have overclocked your max speeds on your graphics card on a 'locked' Rivatuner. This will make sure it doesn't crash and gives us a rough benchmark to set the speeds.

Instructions

Next, open up Rivatuner.



Go to the poweruser tab and ignore any warnings if any.



Search for -> Rivatuner 2.08 \ OVERCLOCKING \ GLOBAL.



Follow and set specified settings.



Search for -> Rivatuner 2.0 RC 15.8 \ NVIDIA \ OVERCLOCKING.

Set specified settings.




Walah ! There you have it ! Effortless overclocking !

I can't show screenies of the disabled clock test but i can show the difference in maxclock limit.

Before



After



If still not enough, change those values to above 100. Then from now, add 1-3Mhz on the core to test and memory. Once you can clearly detect artifacts, please revert the settings or risk damaging your card permernantly.

[farksy]

Addendum:

More Tweaks



As suggested by Bliondi007.
Reset protection .... i haven't have a memory clock reset yet; so didn't have the need to do so. =P
Lowpower 3D control is what i really missed out. I could change performance 2D/3D but i can't set Lowpower3D.
Lastly EnablePerfLevelForcing i still don't know what that means, but if Bliondi put it, it must be important !

Originally Posted by yantronic

DisableInternalClockTest, similar to DisableClockTest.

DisableMemResetClkProtection prevents the memory from throttling down in 2D/3D switching.

EnableLowPower3DControl prevents core clock from throttling down in 2D/3D switching.

EnablePerfLevelForcing allows constant Perf3D mode so the card does not throttle down to 2D clocks in 2D mode.

This is all AFIAK so no guarantees

[Credits to Bliondi007 for these infomation]

Unlocking the 6200

I'm not sure what card you can unlock but this is for 6200 only[6200TC DOESN'T WORK]. Some of the other cards you can flash the bios to unlock, but i don't know how to do it, and it's OT as this is on Rivatuner only.

Load up RivaTuner and click the box by the red dot, then click the first option that pops up on the little bar.




Next, click the Nvstrap tab at the top of the screen and hit Install down near the bottom. Check the checkbox down by the red dot in the picture, change the dropdown list to custom, and click customize.



Once inside, click the checkbox by the red dot, click ok. Then hit apply, and ok. It will tell you it needs to reboot your computer.



Once back into windows, go back into RivaTuner. If your screen looks like the picture below, Congratulations! Your card now has all of it's pipes unlocked.


*The line with the read dot reads 128-bit NV43(A2,8x1,3vp) with 128MB DDR.

*Credits to http://www.doomedpc.com for having this great review !

[farksy]

Originally Posted by yantronic

Enabling PerfLevelForcing will not prevent 2D/3DL/3D from switching.

Just set to Force Constant Performance Level to "disabled".

UPDATE:

I was prompted a question on internal clock test a while back on RC16, which lacked the line "DisableInternalClockTest".

The solution is as follow:

Normal tweaks.

STFU tweak.

For users who hit the end of the bar, and can go further, under MaxClkLimit set a large value ranging from 300~5000 or so.

Originally Posted by yantronic

To reduce fan noise, especially when you are using older nVIDIA cards with cross blowers (eg the 6800GS), you can drop the fan speed in RivaTuner's "Fan" tab.

Should the 25% limit be insufficient, you can further alter the fan speed.



Change the value to 0.



Now you can use fan speeds below 25%. In this case it allowed the inno3D 6800GS to be inaudible on the desktop.

*Both from Ah yan himself.

[bliondi]

good job bro!

[rascal]

up for a sticky.....gd job there

[blackevil_2000]

sticky~~~

[maverick317]

Nice guide farksy Sticky plz!

[Quad Master]

Nice job there farksy , Keep it up.

[stoned22]

Is there a way to force card to not run lowpower 3D while still letting it throttle down to 2D mode? Seems like EnablePerfLevelForcing will prevent it from switching to 2D mode?

[farksy]

Originally Posted by stoned22

Is there a way to force card to not run lowpower 3D while still letting it throttle down to 2D mode? Seems like EnablePerfLevelForcing will prevent it from switching to 2D mode?

lol basically i set all @ the same setting so it doesn't really throttle much. only used for benching. If not i'll downclock for playing games.

[kensanctuary]

I have 1x ASUS 6600GT and 1x MSI 7600GS.
Can any1 tell me how to use Rivatuner change it to Quadro for use for MAYA?
Please help!!

[Shmutt]

Time to add glue to this and make it STICKY!

[lukey]

sticky...

[ah_cleo]

perfect

[yantronic]

Originally Posted by stoned22

Is there a way to force card to not run lowpower 3D while still letting it throttle down to 2D mode? Seems like EnablePerfLevelForcing will prevent it from switching to 2D mode?

Enabling PerfLevelForcing will not prevent 2D/3DL/3D from switching.

Just set to Force Constant Performance Level to "disabled".

UPDATE:

I was prompted a question on internal clock test a while back on RC16, which lacked the line "DisableInternalClockTest".

The solution is as follow:

Normal tweaks.

STFU tweak.

For users who hit the end of the bar, and can go further, under MaxClkLimit set a large value ranging from 300~5000 or so.