RE: overclocking 7900gt and stability

dont bother, i remember reading on a review (cant remember where, might have been here though) that the RAM runs stock at 800mhz, which means that its running underclocked anyway, i overclocked mine with the stock cooler and it was only 2~3 dgrees warmer. i bench marked it with 3dmark (sod off ppl who say its not "real world" doenst matter, only has to prove a point) and got 30% more performance from 03, around 20% for 05 and 14% from 06.

I have my eVGA 7900GT KO overclocked to 580MHz on the core and 800MHz (1600 eff) on the ram. The ram is capped off at 1600 so you can't go any higher than that (as far as I know). One thing I have noticed though is that it sucks a lot of power when you OC these cards. I have a 480W-12@18A and had to order a 560W-12V@38A so hopefully now it will be able to go higher. I read on some forums people putting their 7900GTs up to GTX speeds on the core with a little volt modding but supposedly it can be done.

i dont think it's capped at 800, i if i remember the RAM is rate'd at 816Mhz it's just that it cant handdle more then 800 on most cases
http://forums.extremeoverclocking. [...] p?t=216265 for volt modding

for the gpu volt mod you only need a conductive pen. You can get better memory speeds with the pencil mod. I have a the new reloaded version from evga and the memory wouldnt get past 780 without any artifacts. But with simple voltage increase I got it up to 870 but ive seen people get to that speed without any mod which makes me think my memory sucks.