this is going to be a quick overclocking guide well not really guide just an
overclocking result video for the GeForce GTS 450 Cyclone from MSI so I
have dialed in my final overclock on the GPU so I've got 942 MHz on the core
2.22 GHz on the RAM and the Shader with
all firmy architectures is locked to the core at this time I have maxed out the
voltage but you can see my temperatures are still well within reason at about 60
° with uh 64% fan speed which isn't too
loud really considering that the GPU is under full
load so I'm just going to do some performance benchmarks and then at the
end of this video you'll see What GPU artifacting looks like in a very extreme
example of uh me pushing it a little bit too
far here's my default score with the GTS
450 Cyclone from MSI now bear in mind
this is going to be a little bit higher than what we'd get with a stock clocked
GTS 450 because the Cyclone OC which I
didn't mention before it is an OC card is stock overclocked so uh there you go
there's our Baseline and I'll be back
with the overclocked performance in a
moment so you can see here with my overclocking profile which I actually
did have to adjust slightly since I did that last shot the RAM was not it was
stable in fir Mark but it was not quite stable in 3D Mark Vantage I was getting
some artifacts so my final overclock ended up being 942 MHz on the core 2.2
GHz on the RAM so you can see with that overclock we managed to get a pretty
sizable increase in our Vantage score and uh I guess that pretty much
concludes my overclocking results for the MSI GeForce
gts450 Cyclone well this is probably the
funkiest example of artifacting I've ever seen I'm working on my overclocking
guide I guess I'll just uh throw this video at the end of the overclocking
guide but uh I turned up the memory clock to 2.3 GHz and even turning it
back down didn't fix it but I just wanted to show you guys this is a fairly
extreme example of what uh artifacting
can look like you can vaguely see the ring from furmark spinning sometimes in
the background but other than that the screen is basically gibberish now odds
are excellent I haven't damaged the card you can see I've set it back to what I
know is a safe setting so I've still got the core cranked up and I've still got
the uh memory clock at 2.25 GHz actually
it was stable a little higher than that so we can try one more setting anyway
this is just part of the process and uh sometimes you get some pretty
spectacular fireworks displays when you're overclocking a graphics card