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OC-Master
10-09-01, 05:03 PM
I finally have an OEM Prophet 3 Ti 200 in my hands and it will be mine in three days. Using coolbits, I have obtained the following,

Original Setting:
175MHz Core
200MHz DDR Memory

After I Overclocked:
200MHz Core
230MHz DDR Memory

With the Prophet 3 Ti 200, I was able to basically convert my MX Classed GeForce3 into a full blown original GeForce3! in terms of raw power!. At 200MHz, the core was beginning to get too hot for my likings so I added a Blue ORB to cool the GPU down and I applied some home made heatsinks to the ram and used super glue!

OK, now after all that, I did one last bump to see how high the sucker would go,

Final Overclock w/o artifacts or crashes:
220MHz Core (225MHz if I raised the i.o from 3.4v to 3.6v)
235MHz DDR Memory (240MHz if I raised the i.o from 3.4v to 3.6v)

There you have it, the quality of GeForce 3 but for only $275 Canadian for OEM.

I hoped you liked my article, and I tell ya,,,,,,,,


LOTS OF SPEED!!!! man, goin from a 4MB nVidia card to this monster!


i be back in a bit, lata all!

OC-Master
10-09-01, 05:07 PM
update,

LOL, holy crapa, I hit over 6000 in 3dmark2001, finally! and man, does that nature thing look cool!

RangerJoe34
10-09-01, 10:12 PM
nice dude, what kinda of cooling do you have on that

MetalSiren
10-09-01, 11:41 PM
Thats a nice overclock. some ppl siad that it might be hard to reach 200 core but I guess u prove them wrong their.

Noggin
10-10-01, 03:03 PM
I ordered a GF3 Ti 200 VisionTek and I want to overclock it. Sounds like you're the man I wan't some info from. This will be my first overclocking project and would love a step by step guide if you wouldn't mind writing one on what you did like where you got your Blue Orb, how you made your heat sinks, how I actualy increase the clock rates, etc.

Have a GF2 GTS 32 right now and I'm already afraid I won't have much of a performance increase. Had to get something new though because I think my video heat sink fan is failing.

OC-Master
10-10-01, 03:04 PM
I'm using the blue orb which works really well.

Noggin
10-10-01, 03:21 PM
Well I found a blue orb for 11 bucks after shipping. Will get it once I get the card this weekend. Pretty straightforward from there I imagine?

Just did a little reading on this site, this sound about right anyone?

1. Remove old heatsink/fan hopefully just held on by pins (they ever glued on?)
2. Thermal paste GPU and attatch Blorb
3. Remove ram sinks clean off any glue
4. Use a mix (what ratio?) of epoxy and thermal paste to reattatch heat sinks
5. Use a utility (which one?) to OC the card

I just want to get it up to normal GF3 specs. I really appreciate any help anyone gives here.

Pinky
10-10-01, 04:53 PM
Good job, that's the reason I overclock -- more performamce for minimal cost.

OK, I like the bragging rights :).