[BlueWeasel]

Guts? What guts do you need?

I have the Gainward Ti450 Golden Sample (Ti200) which means its a cut above the rest. In fact, it comes overclocked out of the box to 200/450 from 175/400.

The specs call out for 4ns RAM on this card. So that means the RAM is theoretically good for 1000/4=250mhz. Since the RAM is DDR, then the theoretically maximum speed this RAM can do is 250x2=500. The basic GF3 Ti200 comes as 175/400....You do the math.

The Golden Sample version is guaranteed to O/C to 200/450...thats why it is configured to do that. I have seen many of these cards overclock to 240 core/560 memory. That is faster than a Ti500.

As long as you increase the core and memory values in small increments, you shouldn't damage the card at all. If you have it overclocked too far, its not going to blow up right then. You will see artifacts and "snow" on the screen when playing games. Just lower it back down if you see this.