Best Overclocking Utility 4 Vista Ultimate 64 ??

Ugh... over clocking the video card? Good ol' ATI tools 64 bit version, and Riva Tuner 64 should do it.

Just be sure to get the newest ones. NVidia has been releasing drivers that are somewhat compatible with em' now a days.

For instance, when I over clock my cards using the newest drivers, I get worse performance, hehe!

I think there is another ATI utility that does well, but I am not familiar with it.

--Lupi

Says on ati tool website.....for .27 b4

"ATITool will only work on Windows 2000/XP/2003 (64 bit versions are supported)."

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/ATITool....


have you personally used this in vista ultimate successfully?

ATItool or ATI's own ultility.

What's New in This Release:

· Full Vista and XP64 support
· Support for all ATI RV6xx ASICs
· No changes to R600 support in this build
· Better support for multiple adapters
· Latest NVIDIA non-WHQL drivers with some G8x cards not supported
· Better handling of clock step sizes
· Fixed vertex/pixel/unified shader reporting
· Added detection for about 20 older and newer ATI ASICs
· Fixed crash on X1950 and similar GPUs
· HD2900 can now switch to 3D clocks again... [ read full changelog ]


Says full Vista and XP 64 support. So I would say it would work!

I personally haven't used that version!

--Lupi

K...installed fine  

but whenever i try to manually set clocks above stock it automatically reverts back and the clocks do not even move when i attempt to find max mem and core

ati tool worked fine for me in xp
this a vista problem???

hmm.... could be. thats why i stay away from vista specially 64bit and ultimate.

anyone else using vista ultimate ?

with an ati card?

and oc'ing with ati tool???

nobody overclocks in vista ultimate 64???

hmm....bump?

Use RivaTuner.

just tried it and it doesn't work
does the same thing with default clocks as ati tool

We do overclock. We use the Bios.

I just use the ATI overclock tool in Catalyst 64 bit:

those temp is too hot for my likee for idle temp.

Sorry, that was after playing with the auto tune a few times. As I type this I am at 52C on the card...

is ocing the video cards bios the only legitimate way to oc y card in vista 64?

well yes/no. but you must make sure its stable at OC speed in windows before you flash the VGA BIOS.so you need both really.

thanks for the reply.......

understood but how would one determine a stable oc speed in vista let alone increasing the clocks

you loop 3dmark overnight if it dont fail then its good to go.

let me re-phrase ....

my question is what is the best oc utility for vista ultimate 64 (that works)

so since i cant change (increase) my default clocks with an oc utilty... how would i know what a stable oc is for my card and in turn flash the bios to? Doesn't really make sense if one can't get past the first step to remedy the following dependent steps

note: overdrive is very weak!!!!

anyone in similar situation ??

any info would be appreciated  

I use RivaTuner for fan control and also it has the signed drivers for vista x64. Catalyst control center has a utility for overclocking in it called ati overdrive. Thats what ive been using for overclocking.

ati tool can control my fan but won t move my clocks and neither will rivatuner(says card has not been tested with it .....is b/c its an ati card?

note: again i a working with an hd 3650 512mb gddr3 128 bit card

also overdrive in ccc only allows for a very very small oc something like 25mhz

i've gotten almost to 1ghz core and 1050 mem through ati tool via XP

and i am trying to find something comparable to this so that i can achieve my past accomplishments

do the OC in Xp then flash the BIOS and install vista back on if you desperately needs both OC GPU and Vista.

or else you can always WAIT i guess......lol