Overclocking ATI Graphic Card Guide

Overclocking ATI's GPU (Graphic Processor Unit) is actually easy. Since the manufacturer of ATI graphic card have provided with Catalyst Control Centre. All ATI graphic cards nowadays are installed with this feature.

ATI's CATALYST Control Center is an interface that is used to manipulate many of the hardware's functions within Windows XP, such as 3D settings, monitor controls and video options. It also offered a small 3D preview, allowing the user to see how changes to the graphics settings affected the quality of the rendered image.

Back to overclocking your ATI Graphic Card, using the Catalyst Control Center, go to Advance option. Click the ‘Unlock’ icon to activate the company’s Overdrive Utility. By doing so, you must understand that there is a warning by the manufacturer that it won’t be responsible for problems occurring as a result of using Overdrive, using it has no impact onto your warranty whatsoever.

After understanding the details about what you are going to do, you can continue by clicking the button labelled “Run automated clock configuration utility”. This software will enable you to sequentially step up the clock speeds on the memory and GPU to the maximum values that the components can tolerate. Place a checkmark next to “Preserve ATI Overdrive settings at logon,” so that the setting sticks after a reboot.

Congratulations, you have just overclock your ATI Graphic Card in your computer system.

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