I'm overclocking my Sapphire x850XT (520/540) stock currently, and I got a small artifact at 570mhz Core and backed it down to (560/600) and I am currently stress testing the video card. The core temp is hitting stable temps at about 69-72c. Is this too high? What is the best temp for a video card to max out at while gaming? I don't want this card to be at a huge risk of alot of decrease in the life of the card, and if I have to lower the mhz of the core/mem to have a smarter max temp, I will do so. Input please? Thanks.
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x850 XT Temperatures
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yes very safe... 71c is nothing really... have you seen some of the stock 6800gt's with the crappy coolers? they are hitting 90c+ and still works fine 
SixFootDuo
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What are you using to overclock ?
What the hell happened to the driver based overclock feature ?
ATI Tool just garbled everything up when I hit around 542 ... so, not using it. Seems it should have shut down before that.
Kristina
What the hell happened to the driver based overclock feature ?
ATI Tool just garbled everything up when I hit around 542 ... so, not using it. Seems it should have shut down before that.
Kristina
BigDaddy85
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i disagreed with atitool's temp, try everest.
www.lavalys.com and dl everest from em. after u installed it on ur system, open it up and go to computer > sensor there u go. it should display actual temperature value i believe. This helped me a lot on my 9800 XT video card.
www.lavalys.com and dl everest from em. after u installed it on ur system, open it up and go to computer > sensor there u go. it should display actual temperature value i believe. This helped me a lot on my 9800 XT video card.
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well, everest displays 10 degrees exactly lower than in my nvidia control panel for my ultra..