Answered: Overclocking 9600GT in SLI

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Sam1990

Discussion Starter · Nov 26, 2009

I'm trying to overclock my 9600GT's. The cards are in SLI mode right now and I will be overclocking them that way. At the moment that isn't my problem. My question is, what program can I use to test the video card so I can find out if it's stable? This is the first time I'm overclocking a GPU and from what I read I'm supposed to be looking for any distortion or pixelation on the screen. From what I found, people are getting this card to about 800MHz before it starts crashing... well I'm at 810MHz without any thing showing up on my screen...

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BLADEY

· #2 · Nov 26, 2009

Use riverturner to overclock dual video cards.

The usual stresstesting for single cards it Atitool, Furmark. Since your in SLI run continuous loops of 3Dmark06 usually 50 minutes i would call it rock stable but also test your games because sometimes the result can change, eg my video card will pass 20 minutes of furmark and fail COD4.

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Sam1990

Discussion Starter · #3 · Nov 26, 2009

I'm using EVGA Precision to overclock the card, it's a nice program. I'll try 3DMark06, thanks.

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Sam1990

Discussion Starter · #4 · Nov 26, 2009

Well I guess FurMark works with SLI so I'll be using that to stress test the cards, file size for 3DMark06 is too big. Should I leave the core and memory clocks linked or set both of them myself individually?

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BLADEY

· #5 · Nov 28, 2009

Do these together, you will yeild higher perforance as one will be able to go further than the other one

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Deegan

· #6 · Nov 28, 2009

can you even sli and have different clocks on the cards? i was never able to when i had a couple 9600gt's

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Sam1990

Discussion Starter · #7 · Nov 28, 2009

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Originally Posted by Deegan

can you even sli and have different clocks on the cards? i was never able to when i had a couple 9600gt's

I don't think so, they will just underclock to match the other card. I have them synced with EVGA Precision so what I do to one automatically adjusts on the other.

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