9800(pro) OC survey

[Lancelot]

I've been reading up a little on these forums and I'm starting to notice something about OCing the 9800(pro)

-It seems that people with a high performance up-to-date system (P4 800FSB HT, and the top Bartons) CANNOT get a decent OC on their GPU (most are stuck around 400Mhz) but are already getting a high 3DMark score anyways.

-It seems that people with 'older but still very good systems' (no offence) CAN get a high OC on their GPU upto 450Mhz sometimes but still can't break the above mentioned systems' 3DMark score.

So for now the general conclusion seems to be that an 9800 that's really pushed by the system won't budge much when it comes to OCing. But an 9800 in an 'older' system will, hmmm?! Is anyone else noticing this? Please post your scores and comments. My 9800pro is running 400/730 and gets 20.312 3DMark01's and 6.299 3DMarks03's with the main system in my sig.

 

[Rocko[DPC]]

I've never seen anything to back that up. The max overclock of the card has to do with that particular cards core and the cooling it receives. I'ld say its merely coincidence.

But hey heres an idea... Take that card, and put it in your KIDS' computer. See what happens. Assuming of course they have equal cooling, I wouldnt expect the OC to change at all.

 

[Big Nuttz]

I have a built by ATI 9800 Pro with 128mb. I'm at 430/750 with Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer and some RAM sinks. Its the first computer in my signature. I score 6660 in 3DMark 03, and 21000 in 3DMark 01.

 

[cobray]

Theres already a few threads about this. Theres also some threads already for benchmarks. We really dont need another one.
BTW my R9800Pro can run stable (artifact free) up to 475/360

 

[Methodx]

Hmm, this is interesting to me because I was only able to oc my braqnd new Radeon 9800pro to about 396/369 and I have a new Intel p4 2.6c with an 800 mhz fsb.

It's true I'm using stock cooling, but I should be able to get more than this out of a stock cooled card, shouldn't I?

Maybe the system does have something to do with it, though I don't see why it would.

 

[CrashOveride]

I think it's the people with super bad *** systems just odn't OC to th max like people with so so systems do. Unless they have a super bad *** prommy systems and everything is voltmoded... Then they are awsome.

 

[moonman]

yeah I can't get past 400 for gpu... temps and cooling is not the problem, probly the volts to the Gpu is not enough?

 

[snvpa]

I get well past 400 on the core 485 or so with water cooling but 01 score is limited by barton processor @ 24oo mhz I get juast above 19k while in 03 I get a hair above 6600