overclocking ATI radeon agp

[maddog46]

:) Hi Everyone: I am new into overclocking I have ATI Radeon 32 meg AGP card, and I was wondering just how to go about overclocking it! I have a Asus A7V133 mother board, I have some of the stuff on this forum and I see 120/240 ad so forth, I would to find out what this all means and how to do it Thanks Maddog46

[Violator]

Welcome :D

If it's a standard 32Mb Radeon I'm presuming it's clocked at either 166/166 or 183/183. Either way you can use this utility Powerstrip to overclock/tweak it.

http://www.voodoofiles.com/981

Depending on what memory you have on the card (check the chips for actual timings, the lower the better it'll either be 6, 5.5 or 5) your o/c potential is limited by the memory mostly on Radeons. For 6ns memory you can expect at least 183, 5.5 expect 200+, 5ns 230+ (remember this is with good cooling in your system).

The readings you get on Powerstrip (or any other tweaker) will show a core and memory speed. On the Radeon the memory is DDR (Double Data Rate), that means that although the tweaker will show say 166(core speed)/166(memory speed) the memory is actually rated at 322Mhz (in DDR).

Radeons generally run best at synchronous clock speeds (that is, that both memory and core are at the same speed, however some cards will work quite well asynchronously as well).

This might be way too technical thinking about it, but you did ask for an explanation :D. If you don't get anything please ask.......