Playing with ATi tool for first time

[SilkenRogue]

My VGA silencer came in this week, but unfortunately haven't had time to install it on my 9800 BBA non-pro. In the meantime, I thought I'd test out my maximum overclock with the stock heatsink using ATi Tool.

After a fresh boot and letting it go, it crawled its way slowly, slowly, up to 474 until it started backing down again.

It wound down to about 416 before it stopped getting artifacts I guess, so I suppose that's the threshold for the stock heatsink for maximum stability at highest temperature. How accurate has ATi Tool been for you guys?

474 seems very high for air cooling, but I'm it's got me hopeful for a high overclock now.

Running the test again after the card had fully cooled it got up to 472 before going back down to 416 again. Does ATi Tool normally reach such high core speeds? I don't want to get TOO hopeful, but I thought that was a pretty amazing number, especially on stock heatsink.

 

[ProjectChaos]

My 9700 pro reached 348 before backing down which I think for stock cooling is pretty good.

 

[SilkenRogue]

I was expecting to hit around that 400-420 mark, but it was just that initial climb that shocked me.

Considering stock for the non-pro is like 324, it would be almost a 50% overclock on a video card on air if it was stable there

I haven't tried maximum core with the memory overclocked, though, so I'm sure that'll probably have a big effect

 

[angrybusdriver]

Ugh, I can't go over 395 with ATITool

But yeah, as someone said between 410-420 is where to shoot for.