X1650 Pro too much o-clock?

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just got a new saphire radeon x1650 Pro AGP for my old agp box the default clocks are 594 core and 398 ddr2 for memory so 796 i guess. thats what it sais incatalyst controle center. the card is way better than the gforce fx 5200 i was useing and i got it for $59.00 at newegg. its onley 3 days old but i found the o-clocking function in control center and used the run automated clock configuration utility and it came up with 655 core and 466 * 2 = 932 memory. the max controle center will let the card go is 660 and 468 so this seems like quite an over-clock the temp right now doing no 3-D is 42c so i wonder what it is in games i wonder am i going to ruin this pretty quick because i sure would hate to. if anyone has some advice could u help me thank you. oh by the way the thing seemed pretty fast to me already at default clocks
 
The x1650agp is a pretty bad card when it comes to quality. One of my friends who hosts lan parties put them in his 4 systems that he had at his house for friends and ALL 4 kicked the bucket within 6 months. All were covered under warranty but the x1650 cards he got back from saph where just as bad.

He didn't overclock any of them either.
If I were you, I would just leave them at stock. You won't see huge gains from overclocking and hey, its better than a 5200 right?
 
When i o/ced my X800 i used ati tool, you can set the fan speeds and have diff profiles for oc and default. The card should be fine, i think its ati tool that has the test built in, just run that and if you start to see random purple dots and crazy shit, turn it down a bit
 
wow i tryed catalyst overdrive and in 2 days i had some kind of major malfunction all of a suddon with the clocks it did on auto check that i put up first. every time i opened anything like ie or whatever the screen would shut off for a second come back on and i would get this vpu recover thing just over and over and over so i really quick turned down the clock to stock speed and restarted and no more of that. right now with stock speed the core temp is 48c right after a game its 48c i wonder if the temp thing is screwed up. the strange thing is with my old nvidia 5200 for a while the display did the same thing with or without over-clocking and i did a re-install of xp and it fixed it. i wonder if it is this old n-force2 mobo or its mobo drivers i got the latest u can get under legacy at nvidia site for that or if i just fuck up boxes and vid cards a lot so far in this box ive killed an over-clocked fx 5500Le and an over-clocked fx 5200 i haven't messed with the agp freq or voltage in bois ever just soft over-clocking on the cards and killed them. but i have had a small over-clock on cpu from 2.08 to 2.18 sense 2004 air cooled and no problems but i kill vid cards a lot im not gonna kill this one if i can i think ill just leave it stock and hope it keeps working untill i build a new box i guess u know like llose said its better than the 5200 like a lot better freaken world of difference i play a lot uf ut 2004 still and now im gonna get ut 3 for ut 2004 i turned every bit of eye candy up all the way at 1024 by 768 and no problems and so so pretty. there are things i didn't even know were in the game anyway for 60 bucks and fast enough im happy for now thanks a lot
 
Morter, please use paragraphs and/or some sort of coherent sentence structure because that is quite painful to read. ;)
 
yeah sorry i read some other posts and it looks like they make paragraphs and skip a line or 2. i guess i got a little carried away. the other ones look like something you could read mine looks like a block of something u want to look away from.

sorry........
 
how about a comma? more periods wouldn't hurt either.

as for your ocing, i'm with #2, i really, REALLY doubt you're going to get that much from ocing anyways. you'll be glad you did if you need to warranty it in the future.
 
i think so too, i gave up on overclocking and put it back to stock speeds.

im still haveing problems though. when i had the old nvidia card it ran fine right untill i installed .net 2.o, then it started doing this moniter clicking on and off thing whenever i did something, anything if it wanted. opening a web page, opening word, whatever. uninstalled .net 2.0 and that stopped. the catalyst drivers put it in when i installed them, didn't give me a choice, and the last couple of days it is doing the same thing whenever it wants.

im so sick of this. this is on a clean install of xp too. 2 weak old install if i had the $$'s i would get vista. im just sick of trying to figure out what the freakin problem is. im not made out of money is the thing, if i was i would have built a new rig this year and wouldn't be asking these stupid questions......

oh well
 
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