I have an EVGA GEForce GTX285 1GB Video Card.A Kind soul posted the following instructions which seem to work well in overclocking my card as well as the one addressed in his post:"To overclock your 9600GT you only need EVGA Precision for raise the clocks (GPU, Shader and Mem) and ATITool for testing stability. Prime is only for CPU and Mainboard overclocking and Rivatuner is not so easy to use, compared with EVGA Precision.A better and easy to use tool for testing GPU stability is FurMark, which you can download from www.guru3d.com.For overclocking your Video Card you can do the following.1. Start Precision2. Start FurMark in Window Mode not Fullscreen with MSAA set to 2x or 4x and Run Mode "Stability Test".3 Go to Precision and start raising GPU clock 5MHz per step until FurMark crashes. From this point go 10MHz back and run FurMark again until it will run stable for approx 20 Min.4 If you have the stable GPU Clock you can do the same steps as above with the Shader/Memory clockThis was just a "very" quick guide but it is the simplest way to oc a Video-Card. "My defaults were:Core Clock = 648Shader Clock = 1476Memory Clock = 1242Fan Speed = Auto (Reading 40)After following the instructions above, my stable overclock settigs were as follows:Core Clock - 690Shader Clock = 1580Memory Clock = 1340Fan Speed = Auto (Reading 65-72)My question is how do I retain these settings? When I restart my computer, the readings go back to the default readings and I do not know if my settings are still valid, or I have lost them when I shut down the computer. I have checked "Apply", "Link" and "SYNC: in the Precision options, but don't know if they are being retained, or if I am useing the correct method to retain them.Forgive my ignorance, but a little help here would be appreciated.Respectfully:RTHEdit: Too obvious for these old eyes: There is a "Precision" option for "Apply at Windows Startup". Made that selection and my settings are retained.

I have an EVGA GEForce GTX285 1GB Video Card.A Kind soul posted the following instructions which seem to work well in overclocking my card as well as the one addressed in his post:"To overclock your 9600GT you only need EVGA Precision for raise the clocks (GPU, Shader and Mem) and ATITool for testing stability. Prime is only for CPU and Mainboard overclocking and Rivatuner is not so easy to use, compared with EVGA Precision.A better and easy to use tool for testing GPU stability is FurMark, which you can download from www.guru3d.com.For overclocking your Video Card you can do the following.1. Start Precision2. Start FurMark in Window Mode not Fullscreen with MSAA set to 2x or 4x and Run Mode "Stability Test".3 Go to Precision and start raising GPU clock 5MHz per step until FurMark crashes. From this point go 10MHz back and run FurMark again until it will run stable for approx 20 Min.4 If you have the stable GPU Clock you can do the same steps as above with the Shader/Memory clockThis was just a "very" quick guide but it is the simplest way to oc a Video-Card. "My defaults were:Core Clock = 648Shader Clock = 1476Memory Clock = 1242Fan Speed = Auto (Reading 40)After following the instructions above, my stable overclock settigs were as follows:Core Clock - 690Shader Clock = 1580Memory Clock = 1340Fan Speed = Auto (Reading 65-72)My question is how do I retain these settings? When I restart my computer, the readings go back to the default readings and I do not know if my settings are still valid, or I have lost them when I shut down the computer. I have checked "Apply", "Link" and "SYNC: in the Precision options, but don't know if they are being retained, or if I am useing the correct method to retain them.Forgive my ignorance, but a little help here would be appreciated.Respectfully:RTHEdit: Too obvious for these old eyes: There is a "Precision" option for "Apply at Windows Startup". Made that selection and my settings are retained.

Hi,I do it through using Nvidia's System Tools. You can get the software from here: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nvidia_syst...ls_6.05_uk.htmlInstall the performance program, the other two are optional. It will allow you to overclock your card and keep the settings. It also allows profiles for different software so that different clock speeds can be set depending upon what you are running.Steve