Weird behaviour

[ImmortalZ]

I have a Hercules 9700 NP. I have flashed a 9700 Pro BIOS onto it and it works fine (Made By ATI bios I think). Now, I have tried OCing it using the OC tab in the latest Omega drivers. I havent changed any of the stock cooling. The GPU HSF seems to be a copper one. I have no idea about which memory it uses since the card has passive heatsinks on all the RAM chips and since I dont have any thermal compount with me, I cant put it back in case I decide to remove it and check. The strange thing is that I cant push the GPU far. I have gotten upto 347.63/325.69. I havent tried to push the memory higher, but if I push the GPU clock higher, I get artifacts in the 3DM03 tests 2,3. Any ideas?

At these settings I get 3DM03 5090 marks, 3DM01 13490 marks.

My system specs :
Athlon 2600+ @ 333FSB
A7N8X Deluxe
256x2 Kingmax DDR333 (non DualDDR)
2x 80GB HDD
XP Pro Build2600

 

[scottchen]

It's not cooled enough, the Hercules cooling isn't better than ATI's refrence cooling.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[ImmortalZ]

Ok, thanks for letting me know that. Now one more question. The fact that I can reliably run the memory at around 320mhz shows that its better than 3.3ns right?

 

[speeduk]

The memory timings may have been raised so it can run at that speed. Instead of cas 2 its probably running at cas 3 so you may be able to clock it higher...

My system spec: Fast PC<A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7000747" target="_new"> 3D-2001 </A>
"It's not the spoon that bends, it's only yourself."