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Overclocking Video Card
- Thread starter Niggles
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You have a very fast card as it is, and If you dont have very good cooling pushing your card too hard may damage it. I had my 9700 Pro overclocked but then I brought it back to stock speeds because I realized that my games run fine, and the ram was getting quite hot !!
Eventually I want to get some ramsinks and maybe water cool the gpu but thats a long ways off.
I dont think and extra 60mhz will give you outsanding performance gains.
Eventually I want to get some ramsinks and maybe water cool the gpu but thats a long ways off.
I dont think and extra 60mhz will give you outsanding performance gains.
Keep it there. My 9800XT comes stock @ 411 / 361 (or something to that effect).
It's plenty for any modern games. Throw some money aside and wait till the next gen games come out that will require a bit more speed. Then you may actually notice a difference outside benchmarks. Because, honestly, I can't tell
But, if you wish, a lot of people recommend the Arctic-Cooling.com VGA Silencer for 9800Pro chips (not available for the XT, but are now available for the All In Wonder) and overclocking. It costs $21.99 normally.
Another solution is modding a CPU heatsink+fan inplace of the stock one. There's a link on HardOCP's from page, about 1/3rd the way down.
<edit>On second thought, install Lock On: Modern Air Combat, that'll be enough to bring a government super-computer to it's knees. Hehe, man that thing whips on my system like an abusive father!
It's plenty for any modern games. Throw some money aside and wait till the next gen games come out that will require a bit more speed. Then you may actually notice a difference outside benchmarks. Because, honestly, I can't tell
But, if you wish, a lot of people recommend the Arctic-Cooling.com VGA Silencer for 9800Pro chips (not available for the XT, but are now available for the All In Wonder) and overclocking. It costs $21.99 normally.
Another solution is modding a CPU heatsink+fan inplace of the stock one. There's a link on HardOCP's from page, about 1/3rd the way down.
<edit>On second thought, install Lock On: Modern Air Combat, that'll be enough to bring a government super-computer to it's knees. Hehe, man that thing whips on my system like an abusive father!
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Speaking it terms of percentages, you should expect to see more than 10% performance increase. Realisticly, you won't notice any difference at all in games. Benchmarks, maybe. I have a 9800 Pro watercooled, and last night I pushed in to 495/380 and it ran solid. I had my APG bus at 70MHz, and my APG voltage at 1.6v. I scored significantly higher in Aquamark, but I didn't noticed much "real" performance increase in games. It rocks at default speed.