toy OCing FX5200!!!

[jhyukkang]

just for fun, im OCing that card(i know somepeople in here play with old pcs, , am i wrong? is it only me?)
i concluded that 5200 doesnt OC alot. from 250/400 i OCed up to 350/460 but the screen was black with a red gun...... COD2
so i lowered it to 310/440 works fine, fun thing is that i ran Oblivion 4 on very low setting, and it actually works fine!

have anyone tried newer games on old computer?

this was kinda fun(maybe only me)
it only OCEd 60 core, 40 mem

 

[patater]

hahahahah! awesome. that was my first vid card in my very first build! an old school socket a barton 400fsb, the asus k7 top of the line board, and a gainward fx5200. that was fun, and worked pretty good! i have a server i want to build and it has an oldie but goodie 9600xt. wonder what that can do?

 

[dev1se]

I've been doing the same recently, toying with old components and getting the most out of them.... 6800GT with nice cooling overclocked really nicely (Nice cooling as in this)

Core from 350mhz > 450mhz & Stable
DDR3 from 1000mhz > 1200mhz & Stable @ 1.4V Bios mod

 

[jhyukkang]

WOW it was not only me playing with old toys!!
that cooling is awsome , what tems are you getting?
i tried other games, found out that i OCed too much, there were crashes every 5minutes.. so i lowered it to 290/420 STABLE
when mem was at 440, i touched that mem on the card, and it was so hot. and i touched cpu heatsink, the memory was hotter than the cpu!! so i quickly lowered it.

only 40core, 20mem 16%core, 5%mem not very much....
compared to my 2600pro, ICEQ 25%core, 15%mem stable

 

[frozenlead]

hahahahah! awesome. that was my first vid card in my very first build! an old school socket a barton 400fsb, the asus k7 top of the line board, and a gainward fx5200. that was fun, and worked pretty good! i have a server i want to build and it has an oldie but goodie 9600xt. wonder what that can do?

whoawhoa buddy, look what you're calling old school, that socket a barton is the best i've got!

and i had a 9600xt before i bought my x1650xt...

 

[jhyukkang]

i still have barton in my old pc with fx5200
Athlon Xp 3200+ @2.2Ghz 400FSb this was the best cpu at that time..

 

[apache_lives]

i still have barton in my old pc with fx5200
Athlon Xp 3200+ @2.2Ghz 400FSb this was the best cpu at that time..

Best socket A = Yes
Best CPU at the time = No

 

[zloginet]

I have been screwing with a

WinFast A380 aka 5950ultra... its seems about half as fast as a 6600GT. I have that plugged into a gigabyte board with a AMD 2100xp

I also screwed with a MSI MX440 the other day.

 

[Shadow703793]

Nice. Did you use a volt mod or just used AtiTool/RivaTuner? I manged to get a 8400GS to 725/475.
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/vxmx6/

Stock was 450/400.

Special thanks to :
Solaris17 over at techpowerup.

 

[tekzor]

haha, i remember OCing my first fx5200. i wanted to play CC:Generals so bad and my gf2 64MB couldnt handle that well so I upgraded to a fx5200. WHAT AN UPGRADE!!!
At least I was able to play at 1024/7 . After OC it was a bit smoother at higher setting...They never OCed well.

 

[Dudeson]

I have a 6600 vanilla in my internet/downloading PC and i have it OC'ed to 400/610 up from 350/500. All with the stock cooler (one TINY Fan over the actually chip ROFL!) i'm surprised it hasn't burnt out yet.

 

[jhyukkang]

my fx5200 only has heat sink, i put a 80mm fan and tied to the heat sink by using paper clips, dont go higher than 50C with OC

 

[dev1se]

WOW it was not only me playing with old toys!!
that cooling is awsome , what tems are you getting?
i tried other games, found out that i OCed too much, there were crashes every 5minutes.. so i lowered it to 290/420 STABLE
when mem was at 440, i touched that mem on the card, and it was so hot. and i touched cpu heatsink, the memory was hotter than the cpu!! so i quickly lowered it.

only 40core, 20mem 16%core, 5%mem not very much....
compared to my 2600pro, ICEQ 25%core, 15%mem stable

At those clocks I mentioned it's running at 45-50 idle... with the fans turned right up... never goes over 60'c even at full load. The heatsink is top notch kit... I used to have a casing around it but I thought I'd design my own cooler... Only thing is, it requires a minimum of 3 slots :lol:

 

[basketcase]

Best socket A = Yes
Best CPU at the time = No

When the AXP 3200+ came out, there was no better CPU, at least for gaming.

At the time, the best intel was no match, when it came to gaming. Maybe for other things, like synthetic benchmarks and encoding stuff. And those things were probably only marginally better.

 

[EvilHomerINC]

I am currently oc'ing a diamond stealth s220 with the rendition verite 2100 chipset to squeeze a few more frames out of gl quake 1 and original tomb raider with the 3d drivers...p200 in all its glory!

 

[jhyukkang]

when i first got that AXP 3200+, i loved it, i could do everything with it.
all OCing people, is it okay if you write your clocks?

 

[aznstriker92]

With my X600 I oced from 400/250 to 521/290 stable.

 

[patater]

dude, there were the 2500-m series chips that could hit high overclock, well for their day, and could out-game the 3200+. i am sorry if i made anyone upset bout calling their current puter old school. i have came a long way from my first build in 03. but yeah, that stuff was still good to play wow on, the 5700le (flashed to ultra) played wow a ton better than what my buddy had before, but still nothing compared to anyhitng today. i kinda wish i still had my first puter, but i got a decent one and that broke so i upgraded...stupid asrock! anyways, rock on with the older parts, its good times!

 

[apache_lives]

When the AXP 3200+ came out, there was no better CPU, at least for gaming.

At the time, the best intel was no match, when it came to gaming. Maybe for other things, like synthetic benchmarks and encoding stuff. And those things were probably only marginally better.

If i remember correctly Intel had the Northwood C's which had 800mhz FSB and HT, and pushed ahead of the AMD and made some of us question how AMD gets the PR specs.

 

[mitch074]

Between a fx5200 and a 6200, the former has actually some potential: while the chip itself is 'sh*t', the DDR2 RAM is accessed through a 128-bit bus (the 6200 only has a 64-bit bus). OC'ing the core and not the RAM does make some sense; the 6200 is clocked pretty high already, so it doesn't o/c well - and is anyway memory limited.

An fx5200 is a nice toy to fiddle with, but it's only a toy - a 'stock' Ati 9600 cleans its clock violently.