How much of an OC from a 6800 GS?

[ashrym]

With stock and third party cooling respectively (Arctic cooling Accelero or Sytrin KU Formula) , how much of an OC could you get out of 6800 GS? I'm more interested in how much you could get out of it from stock cooling.

 

[1Tanker]

Is it the PCI-e version or AGP?

 

[ashrym]

The AGP version

 

[mad_fitzy]

Use RivaTuner and unlock it. You may not be able to overclock it as much but 16 pipes is better than 12 even at a slightly lower clockspeed

 

[1Tanker]

Use RivaTuner and unlock it. You may not be able to overclock it as much but 16 pipes is better than 12 even at a slightly lower clockspeed

Yes...I got alot more out of unlocking it, than i did from O/C. Then i

overclocked it also, giving nice results.

Anyways, as you can see in my sig, mine's an eVGA...unlocked...and

with stock cooling i'm only getting 436/1160, although the nVIDIA

stock speeds are 350/1000. I figure removing stock HSF, and if needed,

a lap job and some AS5 along with some RAM sinks should help.

Current temps are 50c idle, 62c load with fan at 100%.

 

[ashrym]

Use RivaTuner and unlock it. You may not be able to overclock it as much but 16 pipes is better than 12 even at a slightly lower clockspeed

Yes...I got alot more out of unlocking it, than i did from O/C. Then i

overclocked it also, giving nice results.

Anyways, as you can see in my sig, mine's an eVGA...unlocked...and

with stock cooling i'm only getting 436/1160, although the nVIDIA

stock speeds are 350/1000. I figure removing stock HSF, and if needed,

a lap job and some AS5 along with some RAM sinks should help.

Current temps are 50c idle, 62c load with fan at 100%.

That's awesome to hear that you got such a good overclock out of it. with all out that extra stuff you were saying to increase the OC, you could probably get it upwards around 500/1250. You could probably get 450/1200 easy with a simple aftermarket HSF. The two best non water-cooled video HSFs are the Masscool/Sytrin Ku Formula and the Artic Cooling Accelero. You may want to look into those. You can probably find both of them for around $35-$40 with shipping.

I was wondering. It seems that the 6800 GS is just an NV40 core (6800 GT) with two pipelines and one vertex disabled. And, I know that the vanilla 6800s are on the NV40 core as well (atleast some of them are; they differ alot). So, wouldn't it be possible to just pick up a 6800, unlock and overclock it to a 6800 GT? Or is there some factor that I'm not taking into account?

 

[1Tanker]

You could probably get 450/1200 easy with a simple aftermarket HSF. The two best non water-cooled video HSFs are the Masscool/Sytrin Ku Formula and the Artic Cooling Accelero. You may want to look into those. You can probably find both of them for around $35-$40 with shipping.

I was wondering. It seems that the 6800 GS is just an NV40 core (6800 GT) with two pipelines and one vertex disabled. And, I know that the vanilla 6800s are on the NV40 core as well (atleast some of them are; they differ alot). So, wouldn't it be possible to just pick up a 6800, unlock and overclock it to a 6800 GT? Or is there some factor that I'm not taking into account?

It seems that you asked what kind of O/C you could get on the 6800GS,

and now you are telling me what i should be able to get...WTF.

Also you won't get a plain 6800 up to 6800GT spec, as it's just 128MB,

IIRC and core/mem speeds of 325/350(700) vs 6800 GT at 16/6 and

350/1000. I doubt you'll get the mem from 700 up to 1000.

 

[ashrym]

You could probably get 450/1200 easy with a simple aftermarket HSF. The two best non water-cooled video HSFs are the Masscool/Sytrin Ku Formula and the Artic Cooling Accelero. You may want to look into those. You can probably find both of them for around $35-$40 with shipping.

I was wondering. It seems that the 6800 GS is just an NV40 core (6800 GT) with two pipelines and one vertex disabled. And, I know that the vanilla 6800s are on the NV40 core as well (atleast some of them are; they differ alot). So, wouldn't it be possible to just pick up a 6800, unlock and overclock it to a 6800 GT? Or is there some factor that I'm not taking into account?

It seems that you asked what kind of O/C you could get on the 6800GS,

and now you are telling me what i should be able to get...WTF.

Also you won't get a plain 6800 up to 6800GT spec, as it's just 128MB,

IIRC and core/mem speeds of 325/350(700) vs 6800 GT at 16/6 and

350/1000. I doubt you'll get the mem from 700 up to 1000.

LoL, calm down. I didn't mean to seem like I infact knew what you would be able to get those speeds -- I don't -- I was simply saying that (from what I gathered from you and others) you should be able to get those speeds from what you currently have with some good cooling (theoretically). I do know a good bit about cooling. Though, my knowledge on the oc'ing limitations of certain video cards is limited. Sorry if I was trying to seem like I knew what kind of OC you could get. It was more of an educated guess.

 

[1Tanker]

n/p hope my opinion may have helped in some way.

 

[ashrym]

It definitely did. I'm going to go ahead and stick with buying the PNY 6800 GS. What kind of framerate do you get in various different games you play?

 

[1Tanker]

It definitely did. I'm going to go ahead and stick with buying the PNY 6800 GS. What kind of framerate do you get in various different games you play?

Actually, i don't even play games that tax my GPU much. I'm not into FPS,

RPG, or RTS games as i find them too unrealistic for my liking(hope this

doesn't start any kind of argumentive postings), I'm a motorhead at heart,

thus i like racing type games, etc. The main reason i bought this card was

because my R9600XT seemed to be holding back my O/C's and i was putting

together a P4 machine for my wife, and thought she deserved better than

the MX440 she had . She always gets the hand-me-down stuff