How to maintain my new card if I need to?

BaRcOe

I just got a 7600gt on monday, and was wondering how do I maintain it.
Make sure it keeps my FPS Up there.

How can I find out fan speed/temperature of it?
Maybe if every week I check on the temperature...etc I will be able to see If it is still the same as when I got it.

Or
Should it be fine. I don't need to worry about it??

PogMoThoin

Careful, you gotta toilet train it first, be pixels everywhere for the first while

If your not overclocking it, just blow the dust out of the fan every few weeks/months depending on how dusty your room is. Wouldn't be too worried.

If you are overclocking, use rivatuner to overclock, check temps & control fans.

requiem1

in terms of fps just keep the drivers up to date and consider overclocking at a later stage of its life

BaRcOe

Is the main purpose of overclocking to get more out of the card. Get more fps out of it??

is overclocking good or Bad??

;)

Varkov

Overclocking is simply increasing the speed your graphics card / processor / RAM runs at. ie : increasing its clock speed.

With your 7600GT for example, it comes with a stock core clock speed
of 560 Mhz. Using rivatuner or other overclocking programs you can increase the speed up to 600 or 700 MHz. The same way a 2Ghz processor showes better performance than a 1Ghz, so too will your graphics card in the form of more FPS.

There are more details involved, but it is fairly easy to do a simple overclock. And it can save you a few 100 yoyo's when building a new pc.

requiem1

it can however shorten the life of your card but not dramatically its just higher temps mean more stress on the processor and RAM