overclocked x700pro

[parlee]

i have an x700pro 256 mb stock clocks 425/432 i got it clocked to 435/526... not a huge jump but its pretty good adds abotu 300 in 3dmark05... but i noticed that 60C is when my card starts to crap out and get artifacts, i know 60 is pretty hot, this is under intense stress tests probably nothing a game could produce, but is there like a wall where the card will just artifact at nomatter what? and should i apply artic silver5 to cool it down? will it do much? i dun feel the need to go out and buy an aftermarket cooler as i duno how to put 1 on, is it tough to take off the heatsink and apply paste, or is it like a cpu heatsink?.... also idle temps are 36 on the card, do u think i could push the memory higher, because when i push the core it heats up drastically, memory didnt really increase temps as much as core did...

 

[dvdpiddy]

parlee i dont think arctic silver 5 will do any good i think either you gotta water cool it or get a better fan maybe you can ghetto cool it with and airconditioner like i did with my one of my first mod's

 

[parlee]

lol well i dun feel like air conditioning it, and i dont think i could squeeze THAT much more perforamcne out of this card, and deffintly not enough to justify the 40 dollar price tag of an aftermarket cooler, i think ill just apply new thermalpaste and see how that helps..

 

[mdd1963]

If artifacting, your mem is too high....period....

Sell/trade it, and find a 6600GT or X800 GTO

 

[parlee]

im not selling my card because my fps is fine i was just wondering if artic silver would allow me to get a little higher overclock

 

[falsterbo]

If you think 60c is high than there something wrong

My 5950Ultra has a limit of 140c and normally does 120 when it is pressed to the maximum. Who said that Battlefield 2 will lagg with any thing under 6600?, mine works fine on the highest settings on everything.

 

[parlee]

i dont think i said it was high i just always get artifacts at that temp, its never gone above 61...

 

[margag_]

It is a well known issue that wen you push the mem too far it artifacts
and if you push the core too hard it locks.

60c is not hot :!: GPU can work at much higher temp than CPU.

It is common to see people talking of their gpu temp in the 100's at full load.

 

[parlee]

well i pushed memory 100mhz and temps when under stress went to 57, i know video cards runs hotter than cpus and can tolorate it... but when i push the core, even 20 mhz atitoolz gets artifacts... maybe ill push the memory later and see how far it can go

 

[ara]

what make is ur x700, i have an x700 pro (gigabyte) 128mb running at 460/500 just fine, i still haven't seen an artifact and i'm on stock cooling (which doesn't even touch memory modules) and i idle at 40-42 and reach low 70's under ATItool load. I actually am scared to take it higher without cooling the mem. modules.

Ara

 

[parlee]

its an ATI card... i have my memory clocked 26 higher so maybe if i lower that teh core will clock a bit higher...

 

[ara]

i don't know if they affect eachother, but i always thought of them as 2 seperate things... there's obviously a link between them... can somebody point us in the right way?

Ara

 

[parlee]

well ill try to clock the same as urs, if it can do that then i guess they are related in some way ... core is limited by heat, and memory is limited by the type it is, maybe the max this memory can handle is 1100mhz, and since im close to that it artifacts...

 

[parlee]

well i took the settings u said u got and tried it out, i underclocked the memory back to 500 and did the core till it artifacted... it got to 473 and the entire 3d thing artifacted... i dropped it to 467 and tested for artifacts, went a minute without finding any so i went to run the memory back up again... hit 526, i think it can go a lil higher but the ceiling for my card is 473/531, well thats as high as atitoolz will go because it gets huge artifacts, idle temps at 467/526 is 38 with fan on 75%.. try raising ur fan speed to 75% it helps out a ton... im sure u can get those settings. it has never gone over 60 the entire tme ive owned this thing, i duno why that is but when it hits 60C it artifacts... i guess those speeds are a pretty big increase from stock which was 425/432, just thought itd be able to get higher, maybe ill buy some memory heatsinks and try to max this thing out... till then ...

 

[ara]

i personally run the fan at 54% when it's between 40-45, this helps lower my sound, i actually can notice the fan noise when i rev it up to 100%, another reason i lower it (the main reason really) is because i get this feeling that the fan will last longer as well as the fact that i think it gets less dust on and around the fan this way (less air moving through it)

Ara

 

[parlee]

yea i also feel that running it at 100% will decrease its life span, but i dont really notice the noise, my 120mm fan is louder than the fan until it hits 80% plus i like to know that my idle temp is lower than my cpu

 

[parlee]

u wouldnt happen to know what the x700pro memory speeds are rated for would u? i think 1050-1000 is close to the max, if not the max because it gets huge errors around 1040 (huge = the screen on ati tool turns yellow) with the memory at 528 the core wont go past 454 without erroring, i dont think its a heat related thing though because it idles at 38 at these settings and stays under 60 even at full load... is this the best this card can overclock or am i just messing somthing up?

 

[parlee]

id rather not take off the heatsink, is there a website that will show what memory it uses?

 

[ak47is1337]

buy a zalman/arctic silencer and your problems will be gone.

 

[ak47is1337]

yes it is worth it. if he buys an aftermarket, he ought to keep the stock on the x700 so that when he upgrades his gfx card he can put the aftermarket on THAT and reuse/resell everything else. unless you are certain the x700 won't go much farther past what you have, then perhaps it would be a waste of money.

 

[handym3000]

i must be behind here but where is the overclocking feature in the ati tool section.
i have the ati redline disk but i cant seem to install it i am missing the cd key

i wish i had that damn cd key.

 

[parlee]

i know on stock cooling when ati tool is overclocking it, it can get as 57C when its ocing, it gives massive artifacts at about 10-15 mhz higher than what i have it set at, and if i leave it to where it artifacts my computer randomly reboots after about 10 min of bf2... i cant believe that its a heat issue since gpus can handle much more heat than a processor, mine can prob handle 80-90C without frying, obviously 57C isnt close enoguh for me to even worry about it... but maybe the sensor is wrong, if the sensor uses the mobo in any way to get a read then it is because i know my chaintech mobos sensors are way off.. all my readings except for the HD seem right, in bios it says my cpu is idling at over 60C and when i touch the clean dust free heatsink its about as hot as touching some1 forhead (without a fever)

 

[parlee]

ati tool didnt come on my cd... well i dun think, didnt even bother opening it since getting latest drivers online is far better... plus *UNOPENED VIDEO CARD!* that i can sell to a "friend" but umm, go to google and search ati tool and u should find it on the first or 2nd hit, its a simple graphical program that allows u to an infinate amount of stuff to your ati card, overclock, set memory timings (dont mess with unless u know what ur doing) setting fan speed, setting shutdown temp and so on literally hundreds of things, or i think at least ... so download that! and have ati tool overclock for u if ur a beginner (thats what i do ) when it artifacts, downclock? underclock?... lower the clock speed by 5-10 mhz and "search for artifacts" i left it for about 30 min and it didnt find any so i was happy... u dont even have to do that step but itll show how well u overclocked it