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Graphics card going weird

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My goold old nVidia GeForce 6800LE went into thinking its memory speed can be 1.4GHz, it should be 800-900MHz lol.
I have absolutely no idea why it did this, and it doesn't accept any other setting (not even 800). I haven't seen anything weird yet but I wonder how harmful this is.. Maybe I'll have to reïnstall the drivers or something..

edit: alright I'm seeing some weird things now, 3D graphics are getting all weird, they distort as if you are looking through a heat haze.. omg..

edit again: wow pretty crazy.. I restarted and now it accepts normal values, "detect optimal settings" goes for a whopping 1,51GHz at the memory speed.. Pretty crazy and almost twice as much as it should be.. But atleast it accepts normal values again lol
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Maybe it got rabies and went into a hyper crazy "I want to overclock" mindset :)
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Post by King Harold »

Looks like it :o

And the slider still goes way too high lol but luckily I got it back to 850 MHz lol so I wont fry my graphics card :)
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Post by hop »

Graphics artifacts = high temperature. It's a common sign when you overclock too much. ; )
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Post by tr1p1ea »

Yup, when i read the topic i knew straight away you had overclocked it ... maybe you've been hanging around Spengo too long? :).
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Post by King Harold »

I didn't overclock it, I installed a new driver, and then it screwed up and overclocked itself while saying it didn't. But now it's alright again..
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Perhaps i should have said 'it had been overclocked' rather than 'you overclocked it'. But my spengo comment still stands, he wubs his overclocking. He'd overclock his own brain if he could :D.
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Post by King Harold »

Ah well, if you put it like that, it was obviously overclocked but I didn't tell it to..
I only overclock a few percentages, not to 193% ((1.51GHz / 800MHz)*100 = 193.28 )
I hope no permanent damage has been done.. So far I've not noticed anything though so thats a good sign.
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