HOW MUCH can you oc this card safely without a extra cooling solution and if you had a cooling solution(watercooling for the card)how much can it be oc.
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HOW MUCH can you oc this card safely without a extra cooling solution and if you had a cooling solution(watercooling for the card)how much can it be oc.
Without extra cooling you really can't overclock it safely... It runs pretty **** hot at stock speeds with stock cooling.
Rmon is right, maybe 5 to 10% at most, at least that was what I used to get. With stock cooling I'd get around 400 core and 740 on the memory. For 20$ I got a Arctic Cooler Silencer and now get 445 to 450 on the core and 750 memory. I don't overclock my card for normal use, no reason. It performs great at stock settings.
Do you think that with this brand of card can I OC without harm the card
HIS EXCALIBUR 9800PRO(128)
Looks like it is set up for oc'ing. Thats the Arctic Cooler on there, not the stock cooler.
So it would be better is I buy that instead of th card with the stock cooler
Looks good, I would.
30 bucks more you can get a 256MB 9800pro.
IMO save the 30$. The 256 version does not add anything to the 128 version except under very limited circumstances. Read this review:
http://www.nordichardware.com/review...ndup/index.php
Seems the 256 version was a "more is better" marketing driven card with little or no performance gain in everyday applications. And you get the A/C/S to boot in the price!
If he doesn't buy a new video card every six months to a year, he'll be glad he got a card with 256MB of ram. Within a year games will be eating up 128MB of video ram.
Edit: That review is from over a year ago. May 31st 2003.
Late to the party but I figure I might as well add a little bit since I recently built a new system using this Radeon card.
From all the research I gathered, the particular Radeon 9800 Pro card I purchased is on the low end of overclocking. I managed only to raise the core to 415MHz (over 9% bump) and a memory of 375MHz (over 10% bump) using stock cooling.
Basically, this translates to small gains in benchmarking performance and literally no visible improvement in graphics while playing games at typical default settings.
I'll have to look into the Arctic Cooler solution if I want to push the video card harder.
That card is so fast, that you would probably never even notice the difference if you bumped it up a bit. Just as you said, it only affects benchmark performance.
Give that card a break and just run at stock--it's fast enough IMO. :eek:
Heh, you're request has been noted and will be considered...Quote:
Give that card a break and just run at stock--it's fast enough IMO.
If I run into stability issues with the overclocked video card, I can...
set it back to default and leave it at that
or...
mod the video card with an aftermarket cooling solution, attain stability and then push it some more
However, I'm going to have to acknowledge the fact that I'm a tweaker at heart and cater first to my geekiness heh. ;)
This is something I have much experience with..Quote:
Originally posted by namrak
However, I'm going to have to acknowledge the fact that I'm a tweaker at heart and cater first to my geekiness heh. ;)
I hear ya. :cool:
The Seattle area has been experiencing some good weather lately (temps in the 80s) which may mean some instability with overclocked procs and video cards. You can have plenty of circulation, but if all its doing is sucking and blowing warm air over the parts, its not doing much at all.
I've lost my video a couple of times during some intense gaming over the weekend even though you can still hear game audio. I popped the side panel off and pointed a desk fan at my pc innards. Got back to some gaming and no issues with video again.
One situation I'll need to test out is to set my video card's core and memory to default, turn off the desk fan and close up the case. Do some gaming and see if I lose video during a session.