i do have an after market cooler on it
Zalman VF700-CU Copper VGA Cooler - NO LED
best one they had at mb

ok i got bolth of the programs form oc'ing my video card. and it brings me to a few qestions.

1 is all the video in 3dmark supposed to be choppy but one or 2,

2 what the hell is artifacting

3. what the hell is artifacting

CPU tests in '06 are generally below 2fps unless you have a OC'd Quad core

Artifact
This is a term used to describe an image on the screen that should not otherwise be there - it could be a single green patch or a series of white dots, or just misaligned textures. Such faults are often caused by overclocking or software bugs.

ooooooohhhh ok. sooo
its supposed to run crappy. ok so i just keep ocing it till it starts showing like black blotches or imperfections in the video basically.
now what parts of the test should i run. all of them or just a few of them. it takes foever to run them all. lol
also should there be a wait time before upping the mhz by incremets of 10. my temp is roughly 36 and with load it goes to about 42-44.

If you're running XP, I would recommend using ATI Tool to OC the card.

It is a little more user friendly, has a little pop out artifact checking box thingy, and DOES support nVidia cards. Plus it should show your temps in one convenient location.

see im useing vista ult.
i got an asus program called smart doc. sounds alot like ati tools. and when ya change the mhz it says sometimes about a error by 1 or 2 mhz and corrects it for me