Worst 8800GT ever?

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mle

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My EVGA 8800GT wont even overclock to 640core/900mem range - I am getting delta errors in atitools.

Temperatures under load is about 89 or so.

Anyone else getting as bad of an overclock as I am?
 
Its just the luck of the draw, as they say. It may be worth it for you to look into the voltage its getting, although i can clock mine to 700/1800/1000 and load at 86 in Crysis. I get a few delta errors, but nothing im concerned about. ATI tool stresses your GPU to the max...i never see an artifacting in games and can play for a long time with out crashing at all. Your temps arent out of range really for this card...they run hot...and i would assume your running the same voltage as me since we have similar load temps, however if for instance you had absolutely piss poor case cooling, and running at a lower voltage, that could still be worse than mine, running at a higher voltage. I will say however, i think i have very good case cooling.
 
Some things you could try:

1) Manually increase the fan speed to lower temperatures and see how much it affects your OC capabilities.

2) Remove the stock cooler and check how well it contacts the core. While your there clean the thermal grease off the GPU and use some AS5 if you have some.

I'm my experience with this card, Crysis did a good job of verifying a good OC.
 
I put on AS5 and verified that there is decent thermal contact between core and heatsink.

Temperatures remained the same however.

At least the this card is free - due to stepup cant complain too much ;)
 
mle said:
My EVGA 8800GT wont even overclock to 640core/900mem range - I am getting delta errors in atitools.

Temperatures under load is about 89 or so.

Anyone else getting as bad of an overclock as I am?
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You bought a stock rated card....you have no guarantees. Don't RMA it as defective and make all of us pay higher prices, if you wanted a guaranteed overclock, you should have bought a factory overclocked card.

Keep it, figure out any issues, and enjoy it, or sell it and try another. 2-3fps is nothing to cry about...
 
Overclock a 8800gt? No aftermarket cooling? Nope, Donate it to someone who lives on a very cold environment like Northern Russia or just give it to your dog/cat if you can't afford shipping.
 
No worries - I wouldnt rma the card back to evga when they have been nice enough to upgrade from gts to this for shipping only.

Some things I just dont do.
 
I thought the idea was not to touch the fan and then let the card decide what speed to spin at
 
mle said:
I thought the idea was not to touch the fan and then let the card decide what speed to spin at
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Not with these cards, in a poorly or even medium vented case, at stock speeds...they can literally run 100c...won't hurt the card, it's just poor etiquette for an overclocker to let something get that hot!!!

With fan speed boosted just a bit, you can keep temps under 85c, it's not loud, and that will let the card live a long healthy life.
 
Im still trying to find out what fan speed is default for the superclocked editions of the 8800gt. The stock is 25%, but what is superclocked?
 
I believe the fan speed is pretty much the same on all the cards. It just throttles a bit, but it really doesn't go that high. I would set the fan speed to 100% just for testing (jet engine noise level) and see if it overclocks any better.
 
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