Ocing...am I safe?

[lhuser]

I have OCed my Geforce 5200 with these clocks:

Default GPU speed: 250MHZ
New Speed: 350MHZ

Default memory speed:320MHZ
New speed: 420MHZ

Now, the thing is: When I bought my Geforce 5200, it never came with a fan. Now, I bought a fan for it...altought the guy said it was useless, but now I'll try overclocking.

Are these settings OK to run or am I at risk of burning my card?

 

[lhuser]

bump

 

[Osak]

Should be *OK* make sure you have good ventalation to the fan and also look for tearing and such, if you see tearing or artifacts drop the clocks down alittle.

 

[lhuser]

What's tearing and artifacs looks like?

 

[allenn812]

Artifacts are like if your playing a game, youll see like bright purple dots on the walls or somthing, there not always purple though. Just if you see anything out of the ordinary, clock it back 10mhz each.

 

[Osak]

Well best way to describe it is like blowing at paint with a straw and artifacts are like random black spots ect.