Radeon 9600 Pro overlcock

[Shane]

Hey all,

i decided to try and squeeze a litte more performance out of my Club 9600 Pro 256Mb AGP card

now please be gentle with me lol im new to overclocking and this is my first little attempt.

so i downloaded ATI Tray Tools and started to overclock.

so far ive gone up to around these speeds according tom Everest:

GPU Clock 418Mhz (original: 398 MHz) 4% Overclock

Mem Clock 212Mhz (DDR) (original: 202 MHz) 5% overclock

i kept on scanning for artifacts while raising the speeds and so far with the speeds above there has been no artifacts found and i ran benchmarks and the scores have gone up quite a bit.

But the problem is i cant monitor my GFX card temps so do you think i should continue to overclock more?

do you think a Radeon 9600 pro 256Mb would overclock any more?

tks

 

[diduknowthat]

i kept on scanning for artifacts while raising the speeds and so far with the speeds above there has been no artifacts found and i ran benchmarks and the scores have gone up quite a bit.

But the problem is i cant monitor my GFX card temps so do you think i should continue to overclock more?

do you think a Radeon 9600 pro 256Mb would overclock any more?

tks

That really isn't a large overclock at all and you should have alot more headroom. Video cards tend to OC alot, I've pushed my x850pro from 500mhz default core clock to almost 600 mhz without artifacts or voltage mods. You can usually just keep on nudging the clocks up until you get artifacts. Then drop it back a bit.

 

[hermeslyre]

I wouldn't worry about monitoring the temps, artifacting is as good a sign as any that you've pushed too far. Go ahead and push those clocks up, you can afford to be more aggressive in the beginning because, as didyouknowthat said, most card have a considerable amount of headroom to start with.

 

[Shane]

Thanks for replying guys,

im definatly going to overclock it more but im just worried about those temps.

i dont want to fry the thing because i heard GFX cards are more prone to frying themselves if they get too hot unlike cpus where they just shut down.

 

[Shane]

well i overclocked it more and i found the max it would go without artifacting.

the max i can go is

450Mhz Core speed


251Mhz Memory

Anything over that and it starts to find artifacts

Not much but i suppose its better than nothing lol

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