How is your shader clock not 2x your core clock ?

sunaiac wrote:

How is your shader clock not 2x your core clock ?

I remember softwares allowing you to control it independently on my 8600 and 9600GT
they could reach some pretty high clocks as well (around 1.8GHz for the 9600 I think)

I've done that much on a GTX 280 with the stock cooler, card held up well until the coils started to give out. I miss those days and the overclocking was much more fun than it is now, hell I even did 2.1ghz on a 9800GTX+. Now days we got these silly limiters that take out all the fun. 🙁

The lack of anyone doing any good hardware mods these days is depressing and most people now days don't know how to do the most basic of cooling mods.

nforce4max wrote:

I've done that much on a GTX 280 with the stock cooler, card held up well until the coils started to give out. I miss those days and the overclocking was much more fun than it is now, hell I even did 2.1ghz on a 9800GTX+. Now days we got these silly limiters that take out all the fun. 🙁

The lack of anyone doing any good hardware mods these days is depressing and most people now days don't know how to do the most basic of cooling mods.

Well thats not true, but those that still do are doing it for world records and such. For the average person there really isn't a need to anymore. For the average gamer all he really needs

720p core i5/GTX660 or better
1080p Core i5/GTX770 or better
1440p Core i7/GTX780Ti/GTX970 or better
4k Core i7/GTX980 Ti/SLI GTX 970 or better

Right now the hardware is so fast overclocking isn't really required anymore, and the fact that for instance with a xeon Quad core that might as well be a Q9650 and a GTX480 I can play any game I want at 1080p and at most run some at medium that means 6 year old parts are viable, and heck for 720p you could still get away with an 8800GT with a core 2 duo if your ok with medium/low.

Ok, Ran into an issue with my high OC: Crash's crysis. Blah i hate overclocking....