OC'ing 7600gt ...temps?

[xSnip3rMaNx]

well im kinda new to overclocking and i decided to OC my vid card(eVGA 7600gt) a little bit. on older drivers like the 84.21 forceware,coolbits said my card was stock(560/700) now on newer drivers 93.81 its read the clocks at 560/1.4GHz ..... whats up with that?


also i was wondering about the temps(stock)
idle about 51-52c and after 3dmark06 it hit 88c is that too high?


everything is stock for now. i posted this to see if everything is ok before i start to OC.

 

[yakkutekno]

Yes.. It's too high.. Max temp best perfomance 65. My oc'ed limit 2 vga 7600gt with tested 3dmark06 max temps ~60.

 

[MrJR]

Yikes, yeah, that's pretty hot. Guess what! 700Mhz * 2 = 1.4Ghz. It's the same number, with the lower being the actual and the higher being the effective clock rate (since it uses GDDR2-double data rate ram)

I didn't overclock much on stock cooling, but I tossed a cheap Zalman VF700 on it and got idle/load of 41c/52c while running at 650Mhz core and 1550Mhz ram. I don't know what more it's capable of, but I'm happy enough with that.

 

[xSnip3rMaNx]

ok well i guess i wont overclock it untill i get better cooling. or i will wait till i get some more money and use step to get something bigger and better


if thats not normal could i RMA it to newegg(bought it) or eVGA?