Overclocking a video card using Rivatuner
The Rivatuner utility has long become known among gamers, which allows you to fine-tune the core frequencies and memory of the video card hardware. In addition, the utility monitors video card temperature indicators and frequencies of almost all parameters. Using Rivatuner, the user can configure the operation of the cooler and monitor at their own request.
It is distributed absolutely free and is suitable for overclocking video cards from Nvidia,AMD.
Rivatuner supports absolutely all video adapters, from the Riva TNT family to GeForce, as well as a wide range of Nvidia drivers: from the very first Detonator 2.08 to the latest representative of the driver family - ForseWare. There is also support for video adapters that are based on the ATI GPU.
How to use Rivatuner
Any interference with the operation of the video card may result in its failure or incorrect operation, so do not go too far when working with Rivatuner.
First, you should download the utility to your computer and install it.
Launch the installed Rivatuner utility.
Now let's go to the video card settings. To do this, click on the triangle, which is located under the name of the video card on the right.
Click on the button with a magnifying glass from the panel that has fallen out. This is necessary in order to view the overall performance of the video card.
We look at the graphs of temperature and frequency indicators of the video card parameters.
After that, click, again, on the triangle, which is located in the “ForceWaare detected” line, and select the first button from the dropped-out panel. It shows a small video card.
After this, a window with the system settings of the video card will open. Go to the “Fan” tab.
After that, in the upper right corner we set the value “Direct control”, which means “Overclocking at the driver level”, and click the button at the bottom of the “Apply” window.
Next, gradually change the core frequency in the “Performance 3D” line using the slider with an interval of 25-50 Hz and click the “Apply” button.
After that, click on the button with the image of a floppy disk to create this setting and save it in the “Custom fan profile” line. You need to create about four such core frequency settings with values of 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%.
After that, set the first value to 40% and press the “OK” button. Go to the “Launcher” tab.
Click on the green plus, select “Regular item” and click the “Ok” button.
After this, a window will appear where you need to set the video card acceleration parameters. To do this, write in the “Name” line - 40%.
Below we look for the “Associated fan profile” parameter, set the value to 40%, and also set “Driver-level” and click “Ok”. In the same way we set the values for 60%, 80% and 100%.
Go to the next tab “Scheduler”.
Here we set 40% in the “Name” field. Click the line “Run task...” and select “On hardware monitoring range event”.
Additional mode settings will appear. Here we set the “Core temperature” and choose a color for the graph. It is red by default, but we changed it to green.
Since 40% is the minimum value, we set “0” in the “Range min” field, the maximum value should not exceed the next value of 60%, which means we set 55 in the “Range max” field. The next two indicators indicate the periodicity of the graph . The optimal indicators for displaying it will be “15000” and “0”.
For the next parameter of 60%, you need to change the values as shown in the screenshot. Don't forget to change the color to get a graph at this value. In our case, we chose yellow.
For 80% we also change the values and color of the graph, as shown in the screenshot.
And, accordingly, we do the same for the 100% indicator.
We get graphs of temperature dependence. If all indicators are normal, then we continue overclocking the video card using the Nvidia utility.
Rivatuner download free
Go to the developers website http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163
