9800 PRO water cooled

[Skydiver39]

I am using the Omega drives and do not yet have the video card o/c. I do have my processor running at 400fsb at 2.2 gigz (88 degrees F / 31 degrees C under extreme loaded game playing in 3d).
Water cooled Koolance system with water cooling adapter hooked up and running on the video card.
What would be the next step I should do to o/c the video memory and core?
ATI Radeon Pro 128 meg
Thanks in advance

 

[rabidchicken]

Overclocking Radeon

Im not sure if this is what youre looking for but get a program such as Powerstrip or Rage 3d Tweak (what i use) both have programs which will allow you to oc your card

 

[johan851]

Ramsinks on your video card RAM might help squeeze a couple more MHz out of them, but probably not a whole lot more. BGA RAM runs pretty cool as it is. Airflow over the card would be beneficial as well.

 

[DayUSeX]

yeah good airflow, if you wanna get fancy duct an 80mm fan to it, specifically, did this to my old geforce 3 when it first came out and seemed to help alot

 

[Skydiver39]

This is true. Nerver thought about air flow over the memory chips. I have it water cooled but now the chips are no longer getting the flow from the gpu fan. Will hook up heatsinks and look at installing an extra fan internally to blow over them.
Thanks
390/340 is this a good ocing level?

 

[Skydiver39]

any chance of a pic to show me how you have the heatsinks in line?
Thanks.

 

[johan851]

Sorry, I don't have a digicam. I have a 120mm fan blowing over the my card (aircooled) and I used cut up Tt ramsinks like the ones here:
http://www.bestbyte.net/Product.cfm?ProductID=224&CategoryID=6&Keyword=

 

[crimedog]

that's a weak overclock
i hit 398 core on air and that's a very small overclock

 

[snvpa]

You should be able to get much higher than that. My card water cooled is at 475 core 380 mem

 

[Matthias99]

I've got mine equipped with a Zalman heatpipe cooler and mounted fan, and I hit 435/375 without a hitch. Stock speed is 380/340, so 390/340 isn't much of an overclock at all.

 

[Skydiver39]

OKay the info is good. I am not much on the ocing on vids so if I am not up to your level, I will one day. lol
Ok, I will boost the core up some and see where it gets me.

 

[El<(')>Maxi]

If your not pushing for the highest in benchmarks then you are fine where your at now. Your card will last and perform much better than at stock clocks.

 

[Steven4563]

i can hit 390/340 on my 9700np

also aircooled

 

[Skydiver39]

Thanks for the info and yes, I am not trying to impress myself with outrageopus benchmakrs. I just want to gain as much optimum performance I can but still haev a card ot last for a while and enjoy the benefits I paid pricey to obtain. lol

 

[Skydiver39]

Herer is my current bechmark and had to lower the settigns a little bit to 398/348

AMD based | AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ | 2204@2274 MHz | 1024 MB RAM | Windows XP | ATi | RADEON 9800 Pro x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE
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6964 - XSMARKS Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7 Scene 8 Scene 9 Scene 10 Scene 11 Scene 12
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1/3/2004
17:33:08 MIN 169 136 116 31 124 n/a 99 194 107 74 124 198
AVG 240 170 196 63 164 n/a 157 226 141 104 154 226
MAX 287 202 254 64 409 n/a 208 268 166 179 212 258
SUMMARIES 7636 6202 2540 7651