Quick Question for OC.

I currently have a 256mb nVidia 8600GT.

In stock clocks, when the gpu is stressed, the temperature never goes beyond 63* Celsius.

When I overclock to 625/525, the highest stress temperature is around 66-67* Celsius.

Now, I am wondering if that 3-4* Celsius temperature increase is tolerable for this overclock? In general, what should be the tolerable temperature for overclocking?

Thanks in advance.

 

Those are very good temps, even the OCed one.

Most gpus can handle 100*+, so ur well within limits

 

Yea, those temps are great. Mine is maxing out at 97C for my 8600M GT when OC'ed to 575/775. I need to find a nice notebook cooler for my machine.

 

100c is absolute max I prefer to see no higher than 95c for a max for a super overclock (mostly benchmarking) but for normal everday use I prefer to stay under 90c.

 

Holy bajeezus, you can literally fry an egg on ur laptop with temps like that. Wouldn't an oven like that take precious years off the life-expectancy of a laptop? I thought mine was warm but at max overclock it stays around 70c. Damn...

 

ATI x700 at 120 C in a laptop. I saw it. It works even today. No probs at all. If you wonder x700 core reaches 82 at 100% load. 120 was reached due to a small airpocket in the thermal pad. But It worked!

Cheers,

Ivan

 

I just overclocked my 8600M GT:
Take a look, what do you guys think about this: is this a big risk ??

First picture is Standard clock
Second picture is overclocked

 

Yeah your stretching it big time. My max is like 585/500. Others have gone to 625/510 or something like that. There is no way the mem will go to 700. That is stock gddr3 speed.

Try from about 550/500 and run a game while your doing this. Then increase by 10 on core until it crashes or artifacts. Then reduce that number by 5-10 and do that for the memory until it crashes or artifacts.

The proper way to do it would be to start from 475/400 and increese one till it crashes or artifacts (core first). Then put the core back to 475 and increase the memory until it crashes/artifacts. Then put those 2 numbers together and reduce each by 10 and you should have your max clocks. If not reduce each by another 5 or so etc.etc.

 

Just for clarification: It's a GDDR3 card (stock was 700Mhz)