Speed Up Nvidia Graphics Card

On this page we will give you the best tips to speed up your Nvidia graphics card for better results when playing video's, video games, etc.. There are two ways to improve the performance of a video card, either you can tweak it to display better quality graphics or either you tweak it to speed the performance up. If you want to have faster graphics you're usually gonna have to sacrifice the quality of your graphics a little. This is because lower quality graphics usually need lesser resources, giving you more frames per second.

Nvidia Graphics Card Properties Tool

You can tweak your Nvidia card to perform better by using the build-in properties "tool". With this tool you can change various display settings.

First update your drivers & software for your graphic card, see how to do that here
Click on Start in the lower left corner of your screen.
Click Control Panel and then on Device Manager
In the Device Manager, double-click on Display Adapters and right click on your Nvidia graphics card
Select Properties from the drop-down list
You are now in the Properties "tool". You can change various settings here to make your graphics card perform better. Play with the settings to tweak your card to your likings.

Overclocking Nvidia Graphics Card

All Nvidia cards have a hidden tool that ables you to overclock the graphics card. This tool can be enabled by tweaking the Windows registry. See below how to enable the tool and how to use it.
WARNING: Overclocking your graphics card can damage the card and/or your entire system. Overclock your card with caution. Watch out for the temperature of your card, don't let it get too high.

First update your drivers & software for your graphic card, see how to do that here
Click on Start in the lower left corner of your screen.
Type regedit in the Search box
In Regedit, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak
When in the NVTweak map right-click in the map, click New and create a DWORD Value named Coolbits
Right-click on the new Coolbits DWORD Value and select Modify
In the window that opens, type 3 in the Value Data field
Reboot your PC
Open up the Properties "tool" of your Nvidia graphics card, you'll see a new Overclocking tab which is called something like Clock Frequencies. Click this tab.
You can overclock your card by sliding the slider to adjust the settings of your card. After that click Apply to make the new settings official.
Remember: do not overheat your card. Watch out that you don't overclock your card so much that it overheats, you can severely damage your system by doing this.