So, i've been wanting to overclock my graphics card ever since i got my computer all build and working about 2 days ago. When i tried, my system kept rebooting, and was very scared.
My graphics card now is a XFX Radeon 5770 XXX edition, so it is pre over clocked by only by a small amount.
I first tried overlcocking the core to 875 to 925. It was stable, didn't change the temps much, at 70% percent fan speed the temp was about 39 to 41 celcius.
My system rebooting could be that, before i over clocked, i had 27 windows 7 updates to intstall, plus the other optional 11.
While i was at school, (and am right now as I type this), what happened, and he told me that while you overclock your core, you need to equalize it with the memory in a certain way, and same with the shader clocks.
Now I did all my overlclocking with ATI overdrive, witch doesn't have a shader clock modifier on it.
My first question is; is there any third party overlcocker for ATI that is legit and works just as good or maybe better then ATI overdrive?
My second question is; How do I properly overlcock my graphics card? I've looked up a lot of How To's, and there a bit out of date. I was just wondering and wanted to ask the community to help me with this, because i don't want to break anything, but I want to overlcock this thing because all the reviews it gets for excellent overclocking.
Thanks for all the help!