Overclocking Noob

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Hello. I bought a Hightech Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB iceq video card because as
I understood it, the huge fan was brilliant at keeping the board cool, and
thus making it the perfect card for overclocking. Problem is, I know nothing
about overclocking...

I'm not going to flash the BIOS because it just seems too final. So I
decided to overclock the card softwarewise. I tried to use the Rage3D tweak
tool, and increased the clockspeeds. I found a website that listed the
9800XTs speeds as 412Mhz core and 365Mhz memory, so that's exactly what I
set my 9800 pro to.... but I see no difference at all. I'm a little short
for benchmarking tools, but the doom3 timedemo didn't show an increase
whatsoever. Did I do something wrong? How important is it to flash the cards
bios (to a 9800xt) in terms of performance? I figured matching its clock
speed would at least be a start. But no difference at all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks, Chris.

 

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"The Berzerker" <Berzerker@wooooooo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello. I bought a Hightech Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB iceq video card because
as
> I understood it, the huge fan was brilliant at keeping the board cool, and
> thus making it the perfect card for overclocking. Problem is, I know
nothing
> about overclocking...
>
> I'm not going to flash the BIOS because it just seems too final. So I
> decided to overclock the card softwarewise. I tried to use the Rage3D
tweak
> tool, and increased the clockspeeds. I found a website that listed the
> 9800XTs speeds as 412Mhz core and 365Mhz memory, so that's exactly what I
> set my 9800 pro to.... but I see no difference at all. I'm a little short
> for benchmarking tools, but the doom3 timedemo didn't show an increase
> whatsoever. Did I do something wrong? How important is it to flash the
cards
> bios (to a 9800xt) in terms of performance? I figured matching its clock
> speed would at least be a start. But no difference at all?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
> Thanks, Chris.
>
>
try this http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ and I run my card 20mhz below
the limits it set to be safe.

 

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The 9800 is a low end card, overclokcing wont do much these days with
the likes of Doom 3 and games like that that need more POWER.

Well thats what i think, iam getting an X800 Pro Instead


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:45:03 +0100, "The Berzerker"
<Berzerker@wooooooo.com> wrote:

>Hello. I bought a Hightech Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB iceq video card because as
>I understood it, the huge fan was brilliant at keeping the board cool, and
>thus making it the perfect card for overclocking. Problem is, I know nothing
>about overclocking...
>
>I'm not going to flash the BIOS because it just seems too final. So I
>decided to overclock the card softwarewise. I tried to use the Rage3D tweak
>tool, and increased the clockspeeds. I found a website that listed the
>9800XTs speeds as 412Mhz core and 365Mhz memory, so that's exactly what I
>set my 9800 pro to.... but I see no difference at all. I'm a little short
>for benchmarking tools, but the doom3 timedemo didn't show an increase
>whatsoever. Did I do something wrong? How important is it to flash the cards
>bios (to a 9800xt) in terms of performance? I figured matching its clock
>speed would at least be a start. But no difference at all?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
>Thanks, Chris.
>

 

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Avid Gamer wrote:

>
>
> The 9800 is a low end card,

Hardly. It's previous-generation but it's hardly low-end.

> overclokcing wont do much these days with
> the likes of Doom 3 and games like that that need more POWER.
>
> Well thats what i think, iam getting an X800 Pro Instead
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:45:03 +0100, "The Berzerker"
> <Berzerker@wooooooo.com> wrote:
>
>>Hello. I bought a Hightech Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB iceq video card because
>>as I understood it, the huge fan was brilliant at keeping the board cool,
>>and thus making it the perfect card for overclocking. Problem is, I know
>>nothing about overclocking...
>>
>>I'm not going to flash the BIOS because it just seems too final. So I
>>decided to overclock the card softwarewise. I tried to use the Rage3D
>>tweak tool, and increased the clockspeeds. I found a website that listed
>>the 9800XTs speeds as 412Mhz core and 365Mhz memory, so that's exactly
>>what I set my 9800 pro to.... but I see no difference at all. I'm a little
>>short for benchmarking tools, but the doom3 timedemo didn't show an
>>increase whatsoever. Did I do something wrong? How important is it to
>>flash the cards bios (to a 9800xt) in terms of performance? I figured
>>matching its clock speed would at least be a start. But no difference at
>>all?
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>>
>>Thanks, Chris.
>>

--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

 

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"Avid Gamer" <Scully@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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>
>
> The 9800 is a low end card, overclokcing wont do much these days with
> the likes of Doom 3 and games like that that need more POWER.


Instead of giving advice just say, I GOT NO IDEA OF WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.
May i ask , which part of the planet you'r from ??




>
> Well thats what i think, iam getting an X800 Pro Instead
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:45:03 +0100, "The Berzerker"
> <Berzerker@wooooooo.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello. I bought a Hightech Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB iceq video card because
as
> >I understood it, the huge fan was brilliant at keeping the board cool,
and
> >thus making it the perfect card for overclocking. Problem is, I know
nothing
> >about overclocking...
> >
> >I'm not going to flash the BIOS because it just seems too final. So I
> >decided to overclock the card softwarewise. I tried to use the Rage3D
tweak
> >tool, and increased the clockspeeds. I found a website that listed the
> >9800XTs speeds as 412Mhz core and 365Mhz memory, so that's exactly what I
> >set my 9800 pro to.... but I see no difference at all. I'm a little short
> >for benchmarking tools, but the doom3 timedemo didn't show an increase
> >whatsoever. Did I do something wrong? How important is it to flash the
cards
> >bios (to a 9800xt) in terms of performance? I figured matching its clock
> >speed would at least be a start. But no difference at all?
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated...
> >
> >Thanks, Chris.
> >
>