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9800xt various questions/ problems

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scraper

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hello,

I own a 9800xt, I was always using it in a stock case (aopen with 1 case-fan) en standart ati cooler on it, but when doom3 came out I begun getting artifacts on my screen, more and more thill eventualy the screen was almost compleetly red :( so I checked my temps, where 80 degrees celcius, so I bought a ati silencer helped the temps down a lot en I could play doom again (Yeah !!!), but when I run a oc tools like Ati Tool, or Ati Tray tools, both of those program's always clock my card under, because I always finds artifacts after a second or 3 (clocks 413 gpu and 365 mem) (when u do find max core or something similair). It should be possible to oc a 9800xt with an ati silencer or isn't it?
 
to get ANYwhere with my BBA 9800XT i had to remove the stock cooling, place ramsinks on the ram modules and do a heatsink modification to the card.

I had to alter a thermaltake volcano 10 heatsink to be placed onto the card. This works well and i can get the card to OC to about 445 core. It never has been a great OC card, but in stock form it performs rather well. I just run it with the ATI overdrive enabled and enjoy pretty decent graphics out of it. Never any artifacts with the heatsink mod. With the stock cooling, i would get artifacts in any benchmark almost instantly. The stock cooler for the 9800XT is garbage! This card needs a good bit of cooling to run right.
 
My 9800XT idles at 70 C with stock cooling. It's just not a great card for overclocking.
 
alrightie thanx guys, then I think I stay @stock speeds ;)

thx for the info

(btw temps are: 57 idle and 68 load) :D
 
scraper said:
alrightie thanx guys, then I think I stay @stock speeds ;)

thx for the info

(btw temps are: 57 idle and 68 load) :D
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hmm, are those the normal temps for 9800xt? i've never had one but back on my 9800pro I had 34idle 50tops at load, on m x800xl its about the same.
 
you could mod the card to get better cooling.

The thermaltake volcano 10 i used was like 10$ at compusa. It took me all of 20 minutes with my dremel to drill the holes in the base and shave the base to accomodate the shim around the GPU core.

With the heatsink mod the card idles at around 40c and loads around 58c and that was with the core at 445mhz.

I can take you some pics and stuff if you need em.
 
I had a 9800 pro BIOS flashed to XT, and the sucker ran hot as hell. With an ATI Silencer 3, it idled in the 60s, and loaded in the high 70s-low 80s. That probably had a lot to do with my non-existent case cooling; however, the X800XL I just dropped in here idles in the mid-40s and loads up to 63 at the highest. So, yeah, the 9800 is a damn hot card to begin with. Good luck OC'ing on the stock cooler...personally, I wouldn't even try it.
 
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