A step-by-step guide on how to overclock your video card in order to achieve a higher gaming performance, with several tips and tricks. The first thing you need to do is to discover the core clock and the memory clock your video card is currently using. The best way to check this is using a program called PowerStrip. This is also the program we will use to overclock the video card. Depending on the version of the video driver you are using, it can provide the same functionalities of PowerStrip ? including overclocking. Since we cannot tell for sure if your video driver has this feature, we prefer to use PowerStrip.

Running this software for the first time you will see the clocks your video card is really using right away. From the second time on, PowerStrip will start minimized on System Tray and you will need to right click on its icon and choose Performance Profiles, Configure.

Pay attention as for ATI-based video cards PowerStrip will report the real memory clock but for nVidia-based video cards it will report the DDR clock (real clock x 2).

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