OC GF4 Ti4200 (Chaintech OEM)

Col_Kiwi

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I just went out last night and picked up a GeForce 4 Ti 4200, ChainTech OEM. Now, it's not actually in use yet, because my new motherboard thats actually compatible arrives tonight along with new CPU, etc. I'd like to overclock this video card (just for fun, the out-of-the-box specs of ti4200 are already more power then i could possibly need) and I'm thinking how to go about it.

It'd be cool if i could get it to 275/550 (same as 4400), and downright awesome if i could get it to 300/650 (same as 4600). More then that I don't really care about. The chaintech card seems well cooled, it has what looks like a large and strong HSF over the GPU, and heatsinks on both the front and back of the memory chips. My case will also have one case fan in the back, and a cool fan that goes into a 5.25 inch bay (originally intended for fast HDDs) that i have lying around.

My questions:

-How DO you monitor the temp of a GPU? And what IS a safe maximum temp?
-What kind of goal should i expect to be able to make with the cooling I described?


A note, I'm not very comfortable or willing to change the HSF over the GPU, just the case cooling.


Thanks to all in advance for your help :)

-Col.Kiwi
 
i'd say, aim at overclocking your card to 4400 level is more realistic. there shoudl be an overclocking feature incooperated into the nividia driver, so use that. download the latest driver from nvidia.com ...etc bump up the core/ memory frequency 5 mhz at the time, save the setting and run 3dmark, once u start getting wired visual affects or gets lockups while you running the test, then throttle the frequency back a bit.

and about the temp monitoring, it depends if Chaintech as incooperated temperature sensor in to their card. if they have, there should be some kind of monitoring program on the driver cd. if no, then no.
 
Well.. After toying around a while, here are my final results.


Got the clocks to 315/553 stable. Above that I got weird artifacts.

3dMark2001 score of 11084.


Niceness, IMO :)

-Col.Kiwi