oc'in my 5900xt..

[wizard james]

ok.. i am a ati person.. my dad has a 5900xt msi..

how do i overclock this thing to the edge? ..everything i try keeps saying the settings wont work.. with my 9800pro i had it 15% over what ati tool said was maxed with out artafacts..

tell me what program.. and HOW TO USE IT.. also whats the deal with the 2ed overclocking.. 3d standed and 3d proformance.. and stutff? :shrug: :bang head :bang head

YES I AM A NOOB AT NVIDIA CARDS it hurts to say :bang head :bang head

[Prodigious]

No offense, but you sound like a noob to overclocking in general. The same principles(and most programs) apply to both cards.

[Ironsave]

Assuming you have coolbits enabled, I would use the auto detect, and see what it gives you. Then you could inch it up little by little, beyond that, benchmarking, checking for artifacts, and temps, to find the sweet spot. As posted, it is the same principle. Also You could try rivatuner. Does your motherboard allow you to increase the agp slots mhz? ( Mine does, and I get better scores with it higher....) Good luck....Iron.

[flixotide]

If its an MSI 5900xt, its most likely the very same card as the one I have here. It comes with its own overclocking util which works quite nicely.

Like Ironsave states, load up the overclocking tool (comes with the msi driver cd), and slowly notch up the GPU core speed and mem speed settings 1 mhz at a time, benchmark, let it rest and cool down for 5 minutes.. increase 1 mhz...

and so on and so forth.

Beyond that, as Iron suggests, you can start tinkering with the agp bus speed, and beyond that voltage modding to move beyond the initial agp speed limits. But thats a pretty tricky affair for a newcomer.. so start out with msi's oc'ing tool and tweak away.

Cheers, Flix

[theMonster]

errrrr..... I hate to contradict flixotide, but if you do it in 1mhz increments, then it'll take FOREVER. Use coolbits or Rivatuner (coolbits is easier, but not as powerful). Knock that bad boy up 50mhz on the core and 50mhz on the mem. If it tests fine then knock the core up 10mhz at a time until you see artifacts, then once you do, back it down 5mhz at a time until you don't. Then creep it up 1mhz at a time until you do, then you've found the sweet spot!! Then do the same for the memory. DO THE 2 SEPARATELY so that you can get the most out of your core then the most out of your memory. The 5 minute cooldowns between benchamarks is a good idea though.

The 2d and 3d are differnet settings, there's no need to OC while not gaming, so you can set your 2d to be stock speeds and keep the car nice and cool, but once Open GL or Direct3d kick in then you can have it shift into OC speeds and burn baby burn

[wizard james]

No offense, but you sound like a noob to overclocking in general. The same principles(and most programs) apply to both cards.

yes... i find your post pointless.. i am far from a noob at overclocking I am just an ati guy.

i have gottin it up to 471/751 with coobits.. but after taht it says test failed... is there ways to tisable the test? ..or skip..

[grayg]

yes... i find your post pointless.. i am far from a noob at overclocking I am just an ati guy.

i have gottin it up to 471/751 with coobits.. but after taht it says test failed... is there ways to tisable the test? ..or skip..

like one of the guys above said use rivatuner, it doesn't have a thing like coolbits thats stops you from overclocking after a certain point so, just set it at your coolbits max speed and then slowly increase mhz from there. You can pretty much follow any safety measures and checks you would do with your ATI card for the NVIDA card.
Coolbits is like the noob safe overclock tool it finds a decent overclock for you at safe measure but it will never max out your card for you.
Be sure to have some decent cooling aswell case fans etc. As I dont think there are very many FX5900XT cards that come with temp monitoring so you will be blind to that respect.