OC a 9700 Pro?

[miahallen]

There's no overclocking utility with the 9700 Pro, so how would one go about overclocking it?

 

[letdown]

Achieving that kind of mind-bending power generally requires a dark satanic ritual of some sort.

 

[Ghostdog]

Powerstrip, I think. Hercules version comes with it´s own utility.

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[ltj311]

Why?

 

[Crashman]

I wouldn't be pushing the thing too hard, it was difficult for them to get good yeilds at the current speed, much more might not work. The chip should really be on a smaller die process due to it's size, and will be in several months. The revised chip will probably support higher clockrates.

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[miahallen]

hehe...seeing how high a 3DMark 2001SE score I could get, I wasen't satisfied with 11400.

 

[ltj311]

makes sense.

Like Crashman said, don't push it too far.

Let us know what scores you achieve.

 

[miahallen]

I disagree with the "Don't push it too far" bit. Did you guys happen to see anandtech's atical on the Gigabyte's card using the R300 core, they had incredible results.
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1686&p=4" target="_new">http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1686&p=4</A>

"We played around with the settings and managed to overclock the R300 to an incredible 400MHz, an increase of 23%. The memory was only able to hit 337MHz DDR (effectively 674MHz), an increase of 8% but the core overclock was by far the most impressive of the two numbers."

But I think before I try to push it, I'm gonna get a Thermaltake mem cooling kit (using the heatsinks for the Card's RAM) ???and get a 20-30% mem speed increase???, and maybe a bigger/better fan, that's the only mod Gigabyte used, I'll also test it with my case open. I'll let you know how it does. TBC..........

 

[Crashman]

Wow, woh, HEY, people HAVE been experiencing heat problems with the card on occasion at STOCK speeds though.

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[ltj311]

Push it as far as it goes bubba. And when you start seeing artifacts...push it farther.