[hackm0d]

Well, I've been stuck at it for months now, and I just can't seem to get it right. People have gotten the 285 to O.C. tons on the stock cooler, and I can't even get it to one increment above stock O.C. without something artifacting.
So can somebody detail me completely, how do you overclock a GTX 285? Because I'm all confused. I've got the shader straps, and I use Furmark to test for artifacts.
What procedure should I follow? I've been using RivaTuner.

 

[grahamcrackuh]

Go to EVGA's website, and download EVGA precision and EVGA GPU voltage tuner! These are fairly simple interfaces that should allow you to easily OC it. Test for artifacts using ATItool.

 

[yabo]

Quote:

Originally Posted by grahamcrackuh Go to EVGA's website, and download EVGA precision and EVGA GPU voltage tuner! These are fairly simple interfaces that should allow you to easily OC it. Test for artifacts using ATItool.

This. I couldn't have said it better.

 

[FieryCoD]

If your card can't clock, it may be a dud card that just can't overclock. You can use the Voltage Tuner to increase the voltage, but otherwise you can't RMA the card just because it can't overclock.

 

[mtbiker033]

I don't think the 285 is compatible with the voltage tuner but get precision for sure.

 

[88EVGAFTW]

AFAIK, 55nm cards arent compatible with voltage tuners. only 65nm 260 and 280s

 

[grunion]

Read

And no the voltage tuner does not work with the 285.

 

[Zig-Zag]

EVGA precision and ATI tools for artifact scan

 

[hackm0d]

I know what software, but how exactly do I overclock? What steps?

 

[Zig-Zag]

Just move the core and mem clocks a little at a time and test test test run ati tools at least 15 minutes at a time and keep an eye on your temps.

 

[Blameless]

I had to underclock my card (BFG 285 OC) with the stock cooler to get it fully stable (flong runs of Furmark). However, It OCs fairly well with my new cooler.

ATiTool is getting pretty dated. Doesn't heat up cards well, and often won't detect artifiacts on obviously unstable speeds.

 

[Zig-Zag]

I can't say for the GTX card's but it works good for my card.

 

[hackm0d]

But there's a shader clock too.
What exactly am I supposed to do? Is there a comprehensive guide on this?

 

[T D]

The higher the better obviously. You keep raising the clock (+shader clock) until ATI Tool or whatever detects artifacts. Raise them one at a time and in small increments.

 

[jessec760]

Its fairly simple.

Core clock --------()--------
Shader --------()--------
Memory ---------()----------

This will be around what your evga precision looks like expect your core clock and shader will be linked. Always keep your core and shaders linked unless you know what your doing. Move your Core Clock and Shader to the RIGHT 10-20 numbers and push APPLY. So if your stock clocks are say for ex. (650 / 1650 / 900 ) Then your OCd clocks will look like 670 / 1670 / 920.

Also delete rivatuner if you havent already (no offense RT guys). Rivatuner is for a more "power user" crowd. If you want to have a nice looking simple interface, use EVGA precision. Its my favorite anyway.

 

[hackm0d]

I use RivaTuner for almost everything GPU related, seeing my GPU stats in realtime on my G15 LCD, controlling fan speed using profiles, forcing drivers to comply with it in driver emulation mode, showing available video memory, etc.
I know how to overclock, just don't know what and how the first steps should be.
People also say artifacts are like a tiny dot or small rectangles here and there, my card just ****ing crashes and displays a blank screen if I go too far.

 

[Angmaar]

Just download GPU Tool. Then press "find max core/memory".

 

[hackm0d]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Angmaar Just download GPU Tool. Then press "find max core/memory".

It sorta worked, for a few minutes, I think it passed 666MHz and 678MHz and then a big white screen came up and the thing froze.

 

[jessec760]

Quote:

Originally Posted by hackm0d I use RivaTuner for almost everything GPU related, seeing my GPU stats in realtime on my G15 LCD, controlling fan speed using profiles, forcing drivers to comply with it in driver emulation mode, showing available video memory, etc. I know how to overclock, just don't know what and how the first steps should be. People also say artifacts are like a tiny dot or small rectangles here and there, my card just ****ing crashes and displays a blank screen if I go too far.

You can do that with evga precision also just fyi. As stated above back your card off about 10 mhz or so with gpu tool and you should be fine. Assuming temperatures and artifacting arent a issue. Good luck.

 

[krameriffic]

I have had a quite interesting experience overclocking my BFG GTX 275. I picked it up the other day, uninstalled and driver cleaned my ATI drivers in safe mode, proceeded to install the 186.18 WHQL driver as well as EVGA precision and Furmark, Techpowerup's GPU test and OCCT 3.1. I raised up the clocks, tested, raised, tested until I was at 735/1584/1291 (648/1440/1152 stock) and found that it was perfectly stable in Furmark for over 30 minutes straight (~90C temperature with auto fan settings).

Next, I tested it on the other two stress testers, and the clocks functioned fine in both. Then I gleefully launched TF2, joined a server and crashed. So I tried it again, and crashed again. For a while I was a little put off by this fact... how could TF2 stress the card worse than TORTURE tests? So I tried a few other games. Crysis crashed, Company of Heroes crashed, CoD4 crashed, everything crashed at clocks that were perfectly stable in torture testing.

So I decided to drop them back to stock to try it and found it was perfectly stable, not a driver issue or bad card or anything. Next I decided to use CoD4 and Mirror's Edge as my stress testing games. I kept finding setups that would function in Crysis and TF2, but for some reason not in those two games. Finally I settled on my shader clock being the big limiter as I couldn't bring it higher than 1506 in EVGA precision without crashes. I settled on 717/1506/1248.

Now, I still can't for the life of my understand why clocks that are stable in far more taxing tests than any game on the market are not stable in games as trivial as TF2 and CoD4. Anybody have any ideas? Power supply doesn't make sense, neither does a bad card, I tried multiple different driver versions, different OC utilities, nothing worked besides dropping them back.