Poor 9700 Pro O/C

[tombance]

I've just got a 9700 Pro and have started overclocking but the card seems to max out at about 340/340. Do I still need to flash the BIOS in order to allow overclocking on this card or were the R300 cores just poor overclockers? The card is a hercules model so is already fitted with RAMSinks and I have removed the shim and replaced the TIM with some thermal paste.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Fallen]

Overclockability varies wildly from card to card. My friend's BBA 9700P only made 340/335 while my Powercolor made 420/350 ...go figure. Hercules makes a pretty good card, so I'm not really sure what is going wrong. What program are you using to overclock?

 

[Ned_Flanders]

I have removed the shim and replaced the TIM with some thermal paste.

You seem to know what you are talking about / doing, but are you sure the heatsink is making good contact with the core?

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STFU

 

[Titanion]

Those numbers are close to the ones I was getting a few months ago on a BBA 9700 Pro... I had high hopes because of he great R300 core on my Sapphire 9500np modded to 9700np, running awesome at 360+ speeds... but this particular BBA 9700 Pro did not do so well... I sold it to my brother-in-law and bought a BBA 9800 Pro... that card had great ram, though, and I wondered if a volt mod could have helped my ram do better... I even had a copper heatsink on it...

<font color=red><b>NF7-S/MBarton 2500+
210x11.5 1.82v SP-97
GB Corsair XMS PC3200
BBA 9800 Pro 423/369</font color=red><font color=black>
NF7-S/MBarton 2600+
210x11.5 1.76v
512MB CVR PC3200
Sapphire 9500@9700

 

[addiarmadar]

350 is about the cap for the 9700 series but you probably need better HSF solution on the core, wat is a "TIM"?

I got a 9500pro do 405 on the core with the softmod drivers and the vga silencer installed.

<i><font color=red>Only an overclocker can make a computer into a convectional oven.</i></font color=red>

 

[Fallen]

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