Overclocking Any Part of Your Dell Computer Is In No Way Recommended

Overclocking of the processor, video card or any other part of your Dell computer is in no way recommended, supported or warranted by Dell. Any damage that occurrs as a result of altering the factory set clock speeds is completely and wholly the responsibility of the end user, and any repairs required or expenses incurred as a result of overclocking are entirely the responsibility of the end user. OVERCLOCK AT YOUR OWN RISK

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In most cases, the other four pixel pipelines and one vertex shader of the 6800, AGP version can be unlocked giving a ~10% performance boost. In some cases the pipes cannot be unlocked while in other cases unlocking causes instability and so have to be locked again. The PCI-e version of the 6800 cannot be unlocked because structurally it is built with only 12 pipelines. Unlocking the pipelines doesn't make the card run faster overclocking does. Overclocking or increasing the speed of your GPU and memory will increase performance else why do it. Is it easy to do? Yes. Running the card faster than the manufacturer intended means it will be running hotter and put under more stress depending how much you overclock.

 

The 6800 is fine as is. I unlocked my pipes more out of curiosity than anything else. I leave them unlocked because of the "free" 10% boost. I say free because my temps didn't move 1 degree aftrewards. I haven't overclocked but probably will sometime in the future when I put a few more miles on it. :smileywink: Hope this answers your questions.

 

 

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Dimension 8200 (July 2002)
3.06Ghz P4 w/HT 533fsb---------------------------------------768mb pc800 rdram
128mb BFG GeForce 6800oc (16 pipes enabled)--------Dell 250W PSU
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS -------------------------------------Logitech Z-5300E 5.1 THX
P992 19" Flat Screen Monitor----------------------------------Floppy Drive
40X CD-RW--------------------------------------------------------80GB Ultra ATA HD
Intel 10/100M PCI Network Card

Howdy
I disagree about being unable to unlock the pipeline's on the pci-e version. I have the 6800gto in my 8400, & I used Rivatuner on it just after I got it in Jan. Riva tuner said I had 12 pipeline & 4 vertises before I tried the unmasking bit. After words, Rivatuner said I had16 pipelines & 6 vertizes. I deleted Rivatuner just after that because of concerns over my warrenty, & because it didn't seem to make a difference in playing Farcry.
I just tried Rivatuner again, before making this post, with the same results being reported.

Unlocking the pipelines also didn't make a difference in the speeds that - detect optimal speeds- reported. Both before & after unlocking, I got a report of 406 clock & 1.03 GHZ memory.
Stock speeds are 350/900
Any way thats how it worked for me, others can be different.
Because I see no difference on my 19 crt, I'm going to set my card back to default now.
Bob