Built a new pc rig with Geforce GTX 660, what to do with old Radeon card??

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travisbrock

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Have a new rig built with Geforce GTX 660, for everyday use and pc gaming. What could I use my old Power Color ATI Radeon HD5670, 1024MB, DDR5 graphic card for? Could it be used for vram somehow? any advice on how to overclock/boost my gtx 660 without harming it? Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.


Computer setup AMD-FX 8350 M5A97 R2.0 GSKILL DDR3 4096x2 NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 660 800W PSU FULL
TOWER THOR CASE
 
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You can't use your 5670 for extra VRAM since it just doesn't work like that. As for overclocking the GTX 660, unless it is voltage locked, up your GPU Core Clock by small increments of 5-10 Mhz using MSI Afterburner : http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm
After increasing the Core clock speed, test in games for a little while and see if you don't get any artifacts, crashing and repeat the process.
However, the gains of overclocking the graphics card is fairly minimal but a little performance boost never hurts right?
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As far as i'm aware you can run two in the same system, just one will be used as the main one, you could plug in another monitor and hook it up to the seperare gpu. Otherwise I would just consider selling it. Use MSI afterburning to OC but only move it up slowly. like 10 mhz or a little bit more at a time, run a test and see if it crashes, then continue.
 
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You can't use your 5670 for extra VRAM since it just doesn't work like that. As for overclocking the GTX 660, unless it is voltage locked, up your GPU Core Clock by small increments of 5-10 Mhz using MSI Afterburner : http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm
After increasing the Core clock speed, test in games for a little while and see if you don't get any artifacts, crashing and repeat the process.
However, the gains of overclocking the graphics card is fairly minimal but a little performance boost never hurts right?
 
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