I am not familiar with laptop video cards, so I really recommend looking up those temp ranges - my safe temps for desktop cards may or may not be valid on a mobile card.Īfter you figure out you how warm your card runs when being taxed, you can use the slider bars on the MSI Afterburner (Or other application, depending on your card, Nvidia Inspector or AMD Catalyst) to make small increments to your core clock or memory clock - and then stress test again to see what temps you hit, and then adjust accordingly. I recommend looking up what your video card's safe operating ranges are, but those can be fairly hard to find sometime.

Generally mid 70's to even mid 80's is an acceptable temp for todays desktop video cards - honestly you are probably even okay in the mid 90's but I personally wouldn't do that to my video card. That being said, don't just turn it on and leave it alone! Monitor your tempature, and makre sure it doesn't get too hot. I would turn this on and let it run for at least 15 minutes. What we are going to be doing is running a stress test on your base settings to see how much room you have to work with in terms of the temperature your card runs at. The first thing you should do is run a stress test on MSI Kombustor - put these settings on (set the resolution to whatever yours is). The graphs on Afterburner should be pretty self explanatory. You should have something like this on your screen (you can ignore CPUZ in my screenshot, and I also hit the detach button on MSI afterburner so I can make the graphs easier to see). I like to bring everything up so I can look at it all at once. It comes paired with the MSI Afterburner as well, which we will be using later. You can download this for free from here.

The first piece of software we are going to need is MSI Kombustor. The only thing that wasn't really gone into was how to get to the overclocking values there were supplied for Luna's video card - or if you have another card what you can use. Luna had a very good guide on optimizing your computer system and some general ideas on how to overlock your video card.

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