Coolbits

[Malfunction]

Since I won't get a response in the overclocking sticky for a long long time, I'll post my original message here:

Quick question, has anyone here on an nVidia card successfully used the Coolbits tweak for the stock nVidia drivers that unlocks auto-OCing? If so, does the auto-OCing work well, meaning, is it safe to go ahead and enable? I got the tweak, but I'm cautious to enable it.

EDIT: A little info....without OCing my card at all, I usually idle at about 56-58 degrees Celsius, and I'm pretty sure that I have never gone over 60 under load. Am I safe for OCing?

 

[Asus]

Quick question, has anyone here on an nVidia card successfully used the Coolbits tweak for the stock nVidia drivers that unlocks auto-OCing?

I have using rivatuner. Does that use coolbits?

 

[Malfunction]

Wait...

Ehh...? Quick response though.

Do you mean wait as in, don't do it?


EDIT: Oh, now I understand. No, not Rivatuner. There is this registry tweak you can download (I think on Guru3D) which unlocks a few built-in overclocking features in the nForce drivers. I got them, but I'm a tad hesitant to enable it for fear of it not working well.

 

[Malfunction]

Here it is:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=815

 

[Asus]

Ehh...? Quick response though.

Do you mean wait as in, don't do it?

hehe
I said no first because I don't use coolbits but then I remembered about that option with rivatuner. Just editied to "wait" so I could double check.

If it has the option then it should work. It probably is the same option from Rivatuner.

 

[bosox188]

I had Coolbits. It pretty much just opens up an extra overclocking option in the driver control panel, but for me for whatever reason even when I followed the directions I always had to overclock it again everytime I turned the computer off then on the next time cause it wasn't saving it. I have RivaTuner and it's fine, try that.

 

[Malfunction]

Alright, cool. First I'll try the non-Rivatuner method, and if it doesn't work for some reason I'll just use RivaTuner.

Just a little info, my card is defaulted at 350mhz and 1gig, is that low, high, or average for a 6800 GT?

 

[Malfunction]

Wow, I just did the auto-overclocking, went afk for a little bit, and came back to my screen saver (scrolling marquee) to be very bright white and blurry. So, being slightly afraid, I restored the overclocking sections defaults. I restarted, and I got to my desktop, everything was fine, but then when I tried opening Zone Alarm, my PC froze! I was extremely afraid of what could have happened, so I manually (button on case) restarted, everything loaded, PC didn't freeze, but my screen saver is still blurry. No matter which type of screensaver I choose it is a blinding white. Now, my desktop (colorful) and everything look perfectly fine, so I really really hope that my games still run correctly. I was and still am scared. I'm never overclocking.

 

[Malfunction]

Oh crap, oh crap. Please God help me. I just ran 3D Mark, the menu loads fine, but when it went into the first test, it was again white! What the f*ck did I do....can anyone help...please....oh christ...

EDIT: Should I try reinstalling the 61.77 drivers? Sh*t...please help, this really sucks. How could this have happened? I just enabled the automatically overclock feature, but got the weird screen saver, and disabled it and clicked Restore to Defaults, and now I get this. ;( ;( ;( ;( ;(

 

[bryanf445]

breathe.....ok is it still oced? maybe a heat problem check what tempratures your getting

 

[Malfunction]

Wow, my PC is the craziest combination of hardware ever! I just desperately checked my screen saver to see the good old nice stuff again! I ran 3D Mark '03 and everything was fine! w00t w00t w00t w00t w00t!!!

I know I must have sounded really crazy, but this is the second time on this PC I've done something I wasn't sure about and totally screwed up my PC. It's a very new system, and was expensive...for me...and I never want to feel that scared feeling anymore...at least with my PC....anyone have any idea what could of happened? Maybe my GPU needed time to reset itself or something?

 

[Subatomic]

Ummmm, use a different program and overclock it YOURSELF. Raise by 5-10MHz each time, then run 3DMark05 and look for artifacts. When you see some artifacts, go back and lower it by 10MHz, check again, it should be fine

I was really scared to overclock too, but it is really easy. You really can't mess up your card unless it is running at like 90 degrees celcius for a while. Have fun!

 

[WaryWolf]

one time i re-applied thermal paste to my cpu and forgot to plug the fan back in... games were running slow for a couple of days, and i couldn't figure it out. then i opened up speedfan and i was getting temps of 79 degrees at load... D:

luckily i plugged the fan back in later and i'm all cool at 36 degrees load now.