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Zotac Intros External Controller for Gfx Cards Overclocking

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 26 August 2008 - 11:22 · 5 comments & 1987 views

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Zotac, a supplier of graphics cards that belongs to PC Partner holding, on Monday announced a special external hardware device that will simplify overclocking for both novices and performance enthusiasts.

Zotac Nitro hardware overclocking controller allows adjusting graphics processor core and shader domain clock-speeds, memory frequencies as well as fanning speed with the press of three buttons. Since the Nitro devices comes with screen, it is possible to monitor GPU temperature in real-time, something, which may be important in case of serious increase of clock-speeds.

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#1 Airlink on 26 Aug 2008 - 23:58
Oh, great: Overclocking for dummies. That's all we need.
#2 Dessimat0r on 27 Aug 2008 - 03:36
Driver and documentation on a CD. Blah. This is blatantly a software solution then. They should have something which goes directly into the graphics card via a connector to give this info.
#3 ajua on 27 Aug 2008 - 07:05
the external device look nice.

But this is software-based. The device only displays current info, just like any other overclocking program out there. The buttons activate the driver-based overclocking, that's all.

A hardware-based external device would be great.
(1 reply) #4 Airlink on 27 Aug 2008 - 22:11
As far as I know, there is no way to do hardware-based overclocking while the OS is running. I would be great if someone would prove me wrong and demonstrate a hardware-based overclocking solution that will work while the OS is loaded and running. This thing aint it.
#4.1 Dessimat0r on 30 Aug 2008 - 20:11
See Speedstep on Intel cores, and I'm sure its quite possible to overclock while in the OS. Also, I'm not sure if the device actually lets you overclock or just outputs helpful information, there wasn't really that much information in the article.

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