I am overclocking my Built By ATI Radeon 7500 64MB DDR with stock settings of 290MHz/230MHz (460MHz). It has 4ns hynix memory, and from what I have heard ATI unclocked the memory speeds from 250MHz to 230MHz when 4ns memory should equal 250MHz.
Sofar I have only touched the memory overclocking wise, I have it up at a stable 236MHz (472MHz) and I want to get it to 250MHz so I get my money's worth, although I wish I would have tried this 2 years ago when I bought it.
Anyway I have stock cooling on the card and I just hung a 80mm fan on the side of the card to blow the heat from the card away (although the card never gets hot) I did it just incase it needed the extra cooling. I want to know if adding that fan on the side of it will help in overclocking at all and if I should have no problem overclocking my memory to 250MHz from 230MHz where it shouldn't be.
Here's a similar pic of how mine is setup,
http://s90699750.onlinehome.us/media/addcooler-small.jpg
Thanks for any input.
Oh and I saw from searching these forums that the 7500 has some directx8 features, I was wondering what they were.
Sofar I have only touched the memory overclocking wise, I have it up at a stable 236MHz (472MHz) and I want to get it to 250MHz so I get my money's worth, although I wish I would have tried this 2 years ago when I bought it.
Anyway I have stock cooling on the card and I just hung a 80mm fan on the side of the card to blow the heat from the card away (although the card never gets hot) I did it just incase it needed the extra cooling. I want to know if adding that fan on the side of it will help in overclocking at all and if I should have no problem overclocking my memory to 250MHz from 230MHz where it shouldn't be.
Here's a similar pic of how mine is setup,
http://s90699750.onlinehome.us/media/addcooler-small.jpg
Thanks for any input.
Oh and I saw from searching these forums that the 7500 has some directx8 features, I was wondering what they were.
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