9600GT 1gb - my msi afterburner is it safe?

[Master_gray_101]

Good day to all,

Now,i have a 9600GT 1gb and it's really starting to showing it's age and i got MSI afterburner and overclocked it and the following is my results:

Core clock: 740mhz
Shader clock: 1850mhz
Memory clock: 1000mhz

Temps:
idle :42c
stressed (Farcry3): 58c - 60c

I have tested it on my own way (will stress test with a real test) playing Farcry 3,now when my core clock is on 750 and up i get driver crash so i got to a point where 740 with 1000 memory holds up fine,i play the game on ultra high for 20 mints and then i switch to high and played for 10 to 15mints and my temps stayed at 58c - 60c max,so do you guys think that this is stable or can i do something better?

just if you need to know: GeForce 9600 GT on G94 GPU
and on (ultra high FPS is 21) and on (high it's 25 average)

Thanks for reading.

 

[Cru]

do a real stress test with msi kombustor for example, at least a couple hours
you can't really tell if it's stable if you haven't done this

for higher clocks to be stable you need to up the voltage a bit,
i assume you haven't done this because you didn't include anything with voltages

 

[alienware]

No don't run Kombustor it's just a power virus.

Just play your games and if they crash you've gone too far. Even if it's stable in Kombustor it doesn't mean it's stable whilst gaming.

 

[Master_gray_101]

Hi Cru3L139,

i will test tomorrow with msi kombustor,i have a problem with the voltage slider it's not unlocked i have tried the .cfg file edit and also in the setting do you maybe know how to unlock it?and will it make me go more then the 740 mark?

edit:late post did not see you AlienALX, so no kombustor anything i can test with?

 

[Josh Weston]

Use something which simulates a real gaming workload. Unigine: Heaven, Unigine: Valley, 3D Mark 11 (or the new one) - all good bets.

Kombustor, Furmark and similar programs have the tendency to kill graphics cards, especially the older ones. Run for half an hour to test short term stability, then when you think you've found your best clock for 24/7 usage just let it loop for as long as you can. I'd advise on a minimum of 6 hours but 12 would be preferable.

Also, the maximum presets in such benchmarks are not always the best. Run at maximum, but also run at the lowest you can at your res. Textures down low, Anti-Aliasing off, etc.
I've had more instability running the 'easier' tests than I have with everything set to 11.

 

[alxcsb]

I still don't understand why you guys always recommend stress testing for half a day, or more. Any sort of computer hardware get's to a certain point where it reaches it's maximum temperature, and that is usually within half an hour. Now, unless that specific stress test is doing something different every 5 minutes, there is no need to let it loop the same thing for 12 hours. If it didn't crash within the hour, it isn't going to. I have yet to see a GPU, CPU, RAM or any other crash-prone component crash only after half a day of testing.

 

[Snortan]

A stable overclock is not just about temps. More often than not an overclock will fail due to errors and not temps. Those errors might happen at boot, 5 minutes of stress testing, 10 hours of testing, etc.

 

[Master_gray_101]

i'll use Unigine: Heaven to test with,i'll see how long maybe 3 hours because i have a lot to do on my rig,

this my be a dumb question and i think i know the answer,if a games crashes do i have to bring down the core clock or the memory?i think it's the core clock right?

 

[alxcsb]

It's both, actually, but you might get away with lowering the memory frequency only. You should overclock the core first to the point where it can't go any further, and when you know that you have a stable overclock on that, you can start fine tuning the memory.