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Overclocking ATI x800xt PCI-E ?

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spriigan8

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Hi,

I own a 3rd gen XPS with a x800xt pci-e video card. I was wondering if anyone has overclocked this card? If so, what are your settings? I don't want to push the card too hard or have it get too hot. I've never overclocked anything before so if you guys have any suggestions about overclocking, please let me know, otherwise I'm going to leave it alone. Thanks.
 
Use ATI Tool (http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/).

You can set your fan speeds with this program, which may or may not help your overclock. Run to find the max mem under default settings, wait until it finds a clock where it's good for 10 minutes or more AFTER going down. The program will keep upping the memory clock until it finds artifacts, then it will downclock until it is stable. After it starts decreasing, wait those 10+ minutes. You can also use it to find the max core, but you will have to change the settings so it runs each clock for 30 minutes. These cards tend to freeze/lock-up after hitting a certain core clock so this is the best way to find your maximum clock. If/when it freezes, just reboot your system and check the last workable clock...that's your max.
 
My card doen't OC well. I think the best I got was 530/570 but Doom3 kept freezing on me so I left well enought alone before I borked a $600 vid card.

The Arctic Cooling silencer 4 helps temps a great deal though. Temps never came near 60 using ATITool temp monitor.
 
Rob94hawk, thanks for the suggestion. I think I'm going to purchase the Arctic Cooling. I've never installed additional hardware to any computer. Is it easy to install that onto my video card? I looked around online and I noticed that to attach the cooling device, you need to use thermal paste in addition to screws. How easy is it to add this to my videocard. Thanks.
 
It's quite easy.

1. unplug the fan, unscrew the old heatsink, clean off the gpu with a lint free cloth (compUSA has these)
2. clean off gpu and ram chips with 99% isopropyll alcohol. (I used 70% and let it dry cause I couldn't find any 99%)
3. apply arctic silver 5 to the gpu sparingly. One little drop will do and spread it thin using a credit card or a clean disposable vinyl glove.
4. apply a generous drop on the ram chips because not all of the ram chips seat flat (not mine anyway.) Just don't apply the A5 to both sides of the board. Just do the gpu side 1st then bolt the new heatsink on.
5. screw it back together. Plug the fan back in.

You'll definetly understand what's going on once you take the card apart.

Good luck
 
Mine Oc's at a horribley 522 /520. this is using ati tool. i just run it at stock settings now, that little oc doesnt do shit.
 
mines at 555/525 and plays fine, but i cant get any more out of the memory without getting artifacts :(

termperatures are at about 55 after gaming

im using stock cooling.. looking at getting one of those arctic silencer thingies :)
 
ahahah someone on newegg's comment about the product:

"N/A,8/23/2004 6:16:17 PM
This cooler is very cool. Initially I thought, hmmm, just another make some money off the latest GPU scam, but no - it really is cool. It feels cool on both sides of my tounge when I lick it and the fan does not cut my nose whilest I do so. Kudos Arctic Cooling!!!"
 
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