The program for overclocking a video card: when the risks are unreasonably high

Most likely, you are familiar with such an expression as "margin of safety". This phrase applies to some basic components of the computer. A special program for overclocking a graphics card allows you to use the hidden potentials of the graphics adapter. However, in order to achieve the desired result, you need to know how to do it correctly and what to be afraid of in the process of graphical overclocking. What we want to share with you, dear reader.

The main question: is it worth it?

Unfortunately, many, installed on the PC program to overclock the video card, alas, not always capable of miracles. Everything depends, first of all, on the modification of the specified product. If you want to play resource-intensive games on a budget laptop, then you will be disappointed: overclocking in such cases is simply a waste of time, and sometimes of nerves. Another thing is, when the video card has "gaming" characteristics - that's it, you can just make it work more efficiently. But here we must act, so to speak, without fanaticism. Otherwise, a previously workable graphics card will go to waste. After all, increasing productivity inevitably leads to overheating. Therefore, you need to know exactly what kind of safety margin your graphics adapter has.

The program for overclocking the graphics card nVidia

So, let's say, you are the owner of a PC on board which has a discrete type of graphics adapter from the manufacturer mentioned above. To increase the missing speed parameters, install the nVidia Inspector utility. Of course, before you start the immediate acceleration, update your device's graphics driver to the current version. After the program for overclocking the graphics card is launched, you will find yourself in its main window, where in the most detailed form will be painted graphics characteristics of your chip. Despite the inherent in this software English-language interface, to understand it is quite simple.

• First of all, install several auxiliary utilities on your PC: SpeedFan, FurMark and 3D Mark, which will later allow you to monitor the temperature of the GPU and test the stability of the GPU after the changes are made.
• Now make sure that the "Overclocking" check-box is set to the acceleration mode (Performance Level [2]).
• Next, go to the core frequency changes (GPU Clock). Do not operate with large values: after adding the next 5 units (do not forget to press the "Apply Clocks & Voltage" button), watch the temperature indicators and check in each of the above benchmarks how the program for overclocking the graphics card affected the schedule.
• After the moment when the GPU starts to throw out various artifacts on the screen, reduce the processor frequency by several units and go to the next block of the "Memory Clock" settings. The script of overclocking is the same, we follow the "degrees" and do not allow "krakozyabr" on the screen.
• The next stage of acceleration is moving the slider in the "Shader Clock" block.

This program to overclock the video card nVidia allows you to save the changes as a profile. After you restart the PC, the settings for your GPU will return to the default values. In order not to complicate yourself with the process of newly introduced changes, after you get the "perfect settings" option, activate the "Create Clocks Shortcut" button. It is worth noting that sometimes with increasing operating frequencies, you need to add voltage to the "Voltage" core. However, at such times it is extremely important to know the limits and allowable values when overclocking your GPU adapter. Otherwise, a good experiment can fail.

Finally

The programs for overclocking the Radeon video card work on the same principle as described above. All the same parameters and the same values. Nevertheless, probably, it will not be difficult for you to understand that with the "native" ATI-application, the "Radeonovsky" chip will interact more correctly than in the "competitive embraces" of the specialized software. However, there are precedents in the person of third-party developers, but this is another topic. Fruitful experiments you and realistic graphics!