How to underclock a graphic card?
I have a problem with my graphic card. When I am playing games on my computer, I have a weird image display:
And the game just freezes and it becomes impossible to play. I tried to find answers by googling but my research was irrelevant. I only find this website: http://www.playtool.com/pages/artifacts/artifacts.HTML, and based on it, it seems that the problem comes from my gpu card. They also provide solutions to underclock my graphic card but my problem is how to choose the correct values for underclocking. I am a newbie and I don't want to make a mistake. Can someone tell me how to do this?
Here is my operating system/hardware:
- Operating System: Windows 7
- Professional, 32-bit DirectX
- version: 11.0 GPU
- processor: GeForce 7900 GS Driver
- version: 260.99 Core clock: 450 MHz
- Memory clock: 660 MHz (1320 MHz data rate)
- Memory interface: 256-bit
- Total available graphics memory: 1535 MB
- Dedicated video memory: 256 MB
- GDDR3 System video memory: 0 MB
- Shared system memory: 1279 MB
- Video BIOS version: 5.71.22.42.07
- IRQ: 16
- Bus: PCI Express x16
Solution 1:
I personally use EVGA Precision to down clock my gt335 to play older games (DX9 issue on the m11x). However I suspect that you may have more luck with a simple driver update. That card is a little old so if problems persist it is definitely worth an upgrade, 30-50 bucks can give you a 2-3x preformance increase.