Does anyone know how to tweak Nvidia cards once you've got 3D acceleration going? There's the Nvidia clock tool that I notice is installed but it has my my GPU at 0MHz and my memory clock at 13Mhz. I'm thinking those are either 1) wrong or 2) the amount that they are already over clocked (0 being the normal freqs). But I have no way of knowing. Has anyone messed with this and had nay success?

I haven't played with it, but there is the 'Coolbits' option for nvidia cards, if overclocking is what you're after.. Have you read the readme information on the nvidia website? It gives loads of information.

Haven't, I'll give it a read.

Thanks

Actually, I'm not finding anything of use there. I found a guide at phoronix, but I did what it said -- even the reboot and it still isn't showing me the OC features. Any other ideas? A link to the doc you're referring to maybe?

I'm on Suse 10.1 BTW.

Any other info you need just ask.

OK, I'm not sure what the Phoronix page is all about, but with the Coolbits thing, the way I understand it, is you won't get like a menu or a GUI or anything; it's just an overclocking feature you control thru the xorg.conf file, by setting options for the driver to pass on to the card.
I'm not certain the readme on the nvidia website is the same as I have here, and in the same format, though I did get mine from there, with a bit of work.
I'll email it to you, just incase you haven't got it yet. Will be on its way soon.

http://files.aoaforums.com/I992-gtusetup.exe.html
You may be interested in this site too; have a look around -- lots of nvidia-related tools and gadgets.

I have played around with fan speed percentages and whatnot with nvclock -f -F 100

nvclock -T for temps

nvclock has a few options...nvclock --help


My card..........
nvclock -s
Card: nVidia GeforceFX 5900 Ultra
Card number: 1
Mode GPU Clock Memory Clock
Coolbits 2D: 49081.000 MHz 32580.000 MHz
Coolbits 3D: 450.000 MHz 850.000 MHz
Current: 449.999 MHz 850.500 MHz

Change with;
-m --memclk speed Memory clock in MHz
-n --nvclk speed GPU clock in MHz

Restore with;
-r --reset Restore the original speeds

Quite simple.


Just like windows,know what the card can do,test/tweak in small increments.
Always check temps.

By the way,do
nvclock -i for all the detailed info on your cards settings temps and other things.

nvclock -i
-- General info --
Card: nVidia GeforceFX 5900 Ultra
Architecture: NV35 A1
PCI id: 0x330
GPU clock: 449.999 MHz
Bustype: AGP

-- Memory info --
Amount: 256 MB
Type: 256 bit DDR
Clock: 850.500 MHz

-- AGP info --
Status: Enabled
Rate: 8X
AGP rates: 4X 8X
Fast Writes: Disabled
SBA: Enabled

-- Sensor info --
Sensor: Maxim MAX6659
Board temperature: 45C
GPU temperature: 64C
Fanspeed: 98.4%

-- VideoBios information --
Version: 04.35.20.22
Signon message: ASUS V9950 Ultra VGA BIOS Version 4.35.20.22.AS06
Performance level 0: gpu 300MHz/memory 850MHz/1.20V
Performance level 1: gpu 375MHz/memory 850MHz/1.30V
Performance level 2: gpu 450MHz/memory 850MHz/1.40V
VID mask: 7
Voltage level 0: 1.20V, VID: 4
Voltage level 1: 1.30V, VID: 5
Voltage level 2: 1.40V, VID: 6

Thanks to the Original Poster of this thread and to other contributors. I got interested in the 'nvclock' tool, and have since downloaded it and discovered that my Geforce4 MX440 AGP8x can go a lot faster than I had known

Cool stuff! Jeez there's a lot to be learned around here -- it never ceases.
Sasha

Running nvclock -i gives me the following:

nvclock -i
It seems your card isn't officialy supported in NVClock yet.
The reason can be that your card is too new.
If you want to try it anyhow [DANGEROUS], use the option -f to force the setting(s).
NVClock will then assume your card is a 'normal', it might be dangerous on other cards.
Also please email the author the pci_id of the card for further investigation.
[Get that value using the -i option].

Any ideas?