question for vid card/vid card overclocking experts

I know this is a laptop forum, but i figured you guys could help me out.. just built a new desktop, athlon 64 x2 5200 with a radeon 3870 sapphire toxic edition...

i have no experience in overclocking..

i ran 3dmark and my score was 8800

so i went to 3dmark details of my computer specs to see what they had marked down for my vid card specs.

it said that my VGA Memory clock was 2.0mhz and my vga core clock was 401.6mhz. that seemed somewhat low so i looked at other peoples specs from 3dmark that had the same vid card as me, some were well over 800 mhz with memory clock, and core clock anywhere from 600-1152

I figured for their scores to be much higher it must be from overclocking.. so i started reading up on it and only result i had found was to go into my driver settings under the "ATI OVERDRIVE TAB" I performed the overclock test and the requested settings came to 885 for GPU clock and 1322 for memory clock.. restarted the computer ran 3dmark again this time came to 9169.. checked my details again, but this time my vga memory was was 2.3 mhz instead of 2.0 lol... still seemed low so then i started doing more research and caught glimpse from google of this program called ati tray tools.. tried overclocking through that as well and resulted in a bluescreen that resulted having to dump my physical memory.. and thats all she wrote.. any suggestions??

 

First the memory clock you have there is 2 GHz or 2000MHz

Don't use any overclock test's that automatically crank up your clocks as that will almost certainly end in tragedy for your new system.

Use google and also search notebookreview.com and desktopreview.com to find info yourself as there is an unbelievable amount of info out there on this subject.

I'm not saying don't ask questions here, it's just better to really know what your doing yourself when attempting something as risky as overclocking for the first time

Good luck!

 

YOu can check the link in my signature. Over there I describe the method I used to overclock safely the video card. And remember that the clocks the other people use may not be suited for your video card, each card has its own limit outside the default clocks.

 

www.desktopreview.com there you might even find people with the same hardware as you , and they`ll be able to help you even more.