9600 Pro OC Help

[Suck_My_Deck]

So, I've got my spiffy new 9600 pro. Well it isnt that great but it beats the GeForce2 GTSx I used to have. Now, nVidia overclocking was my thing for a while but when it comes to ATI I have no idea what I am doing.

SO...are there any decent overclocking utilities like for nVIDIA cars (i.e. CoolBits) for the Radeon series? If so, what are some safe and simple speeds that will squeeze a little bit more perfromance out of this card?

 

[future guy]

I have a 9600 pro and use Radlinker for OCing my card which you can find here: http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/

As for the OC, I have a Sapphire 9600 pro and I get 470 totally stable on the core, no artifacts or anything. But if I set it to 480 it just locks up. I haven't OC'd the RAM much, mine is rated for 300mhz and I've left it about that.

 

[Shojiki]

I've been using Powerstrip, but I only got my card a few days ago so I haven't had much chance to try anything else. I can get the mem up to ~320 before I get artifacts (it's rated at 300MHz) but I haven't bothered with the core yet. Summer isn't good for overclocking

 

[RAutrey]

Try W1zzard's utility. It works quite well and finds your max settings for you.

 

[Shinare]

I got a 9600 pro and used W1zzard's utility and have mine running totally stable at 460/350.

Its a Transcend 9600pro 128Mb

 

[eraser_16]

i'm currently using radlinker for my ocing. i've got a stable core at 499mhz and a memory clock of 711 mhz(default at 600). what it shows in the utility is actually the speed of the memory divided by 2.

 

[Suck_My_Deck]

Those RAM setting seem awful slow, considering my 9600 pro is 400/400 stock. It's a PowerColor by the way.

 

[Jman]

Liquid_Table...is yours a 256MB 9600 Pro? If so, that's 400 effective, 200 DDR. I have a 256MB 9600 Pro, and it came clocked at 400/200(400). 128's come clocked at 400/300(600). They're talking the lower, non doubled number. FWIW, I got my 256 to overclock to 500/225(450). I run it at 490/220.

 

[Top Nurse]

I have been running 538/350 (700) for about a week now with no problems on my homemade HSF. I've been using the Rage 3D tweaker, but will be trying out the RadLinker utility to see if I can get the clock speeds up a bit. I was running the memory at 355 (710) but started getting artifacts so I backed it down a bit. Once I get heatsinks on to the ram I will see about getting my ram speeds up

You can see my 9600 Pro HSF project at http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=713215