Sapphire Rad 9700 Pro safe overclocking?

[Vin]

Hi

Can anyone tell me what I can safely take my Sapphire R9700Pro to overclocking wise?

I have unlocked the oc'ing in the drivers.





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[scottchen]

If you're using stock cooling, don't do the voltage mod, simply overclock to around 380/330(core/mem) anything higher you will see artifacts and your graphic card might crash. As long as you don't do Voltage mod, your graphic card's life-span shouldn't be affected.

I hate Computers! I could only overclock my Barton 2500+ to 2580mhz(vcore 1.65). My Radeon 9700pro core/mem speed won't go above 410/720. I really hate computers!

 

[Vin]

I couldnt even take it up to 350/330 without artifacts!!
Not running any voltage mod as far as I am aware.

FSB upto 140mhz but that is it.



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ATI "The way it is actually played"

 

[svol]

It has 2.8ns RAM, so theoritically it could run at 357 MHz RAM easly IF they don't undervolt the RAM.

I love my Delta 60HP 7000 RPM fan that puts out more dB then CFM

 

[scottchen]

Well my dad has Sapphire 9700 pro he pushed the core up to 400mhz, with Water-cooling, but i beat him by 10mhz with my Built By ATI 9700pro with Zalman passive heatsink. As for the ram, I used copper ramsinks so I beat my dad's 355(he used thermaltake aluminum ramsinks), when i managed to push to 360 without artifacts.

I hate Computers! I could only overclock my Barton 2500+ to 2580mhz(vcore 1.65). My Radeon 9700pro core/mem speed won't go above 410/720. I really hate computers!

 

[svol]

A family overclocking competition... nice. That reminds me that I have to get myselve some RAMsinks as I ran out of them a year ago.

Edit: which do you use anyway?

I love my Delta 60HP 7000 RPM fan that puts out more dB then CFM <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by svol on 07/20/03 02:25 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[scottchen]

I found a large piece of copper, chop it up with an hacksaw, make some fins, file then sand the base and done. Free copper ramsinks. But this cost effort.

I hate Computers! I could only overclock my Barton 2500+ to 2580mhz(vcore 1.65). My Radeon 9700pro core/mem speed won't go above 410/720. I really hate computers!

 

[speeduk]

Stock coolings sucks. Get a passive cooler or even a copper chipset cooler and skip the ramsinks. Some chips (like mine) dont like running the memory high. Back down the memory by 5-8mhz and try upping the gpu core.

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[scottchen]

My dad's a computer programmer, overclocking is just a hobby for him, he has water cooling because his company pays for it all.

I hate Computers! I could only overclock my Barton 2500+ to 2580mhz(vcore 1.65). My Radeon 9700pro core/mem speed won't go above 410/720. I really hate computers!

 

[speeduk]

Hey scottchen. Why dont you take it higher than 2580? Up the vcore to 1.75 and aim for 2.7ghz...


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[scottchen]

I just did it, reached 2645mhz with 230FSB.

I hate Computers! I could only overclock my Barton 2500+ to 2645mhz. My Radeon 9700pro core/mem speed won't go above 410/720. I really hate computers!

 

[speeduk]

Heh thats sweet.

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<font color=red> 120% overclocker </font color=red> (cheapskate)

 

[svol]

I just did it, reached 2645mhz with 230FSB.

Jeeeeeez... you got the CPU with the potential to set a nice record (not the highest though)... OC the crap out of it.

Anyway I think I'm going to buy some Coolermaster copper DIMM heatsink and cut them in two so they fit perfectly on a BGA memory chip. Tweakmonster RAMsink are way to expensive and only have lots of eye-candy and I don't have the tools and the copper to make my own ones. Or I can find a nice copper U1 CPU heatsink soemwhere at a local store.

You're dad is very lucky BTW, free OC'ing stuff. I'm just a student so I have to pay for everything myselve. Why doesn't he buy a phase-change system though and give you the watercooler... if the company pays.

I love my Delta 60HP 7000 RPM fan that puts out more dB then CFM

 

[scottchen]

I told him that, he's trying to get it for me. Still waiting on it, because the company just gave him the Swiftech MCX462+ which he gave to me right away since he has watercooling.

I hate Computers! I could only overclock my Barton 2500+ to 2645mhz. My Radeon 9700pro core/mem speed won't go above 410/720. I really hate computers!

 

[svol]

You lucky lucky guy!

I love my Delta 60HP 7000 RPM fan that puts out more dB then CFM

 

[FDTzeng]

Wait we havent really answered the original question of this post ....

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[tombance]

Lol, Nice Sig :lol:

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