9500Pro overclock limited by Rage3d

[GreatDaleness]

I got my SAPPHIRE 9500Pro in January. 3.0NS memory, stock cooling I get it up to 319.5 memory and 373.5 core. The core is limited by Rage3d. First, is this a good overclock? Second, how can I overclock the core further?

 

[Tseng]

Use RadClocker

But you better remove the o/c function of Rage3D Tweak

 

[PliotronX]

Although I like RadClocker (and RadLinker especially! but I just read that ChrisW is discontinuing the Rad* projects because of.... hax0rs! those bastards have messed with HL2 and Rad* stuff, is there nothing sacred?), you can go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Game Util\ATI Radeon Overclocker in your registry (back that branch up before making any changes!) and mess with the "UpperCoreX" and "UpperMemX" entries.

 

[GreatDaleness]

I don't want to go manually editing my registry, but thanks for the option. I guess my real question was if it would be worth it to use RadClocker. THe stock HSF is TINY, and going from 270 or whatever to 373 seems extreme. If I could get another 10-20 Mhz it would be worth it, but how many people get a 400 OC on a 10 month old 9500pro with stock cooling? ALso the memory is stuck at 320, so will I be limited by the bandwidth?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Tseng
Use RadClocker

But you better remove the o/c function of Rage3D Tweak

A bit OT: That reminded me of Radlinker, so I checked for Radlinker updates and I find this:
Radlinker is being discontinued. 🙁 I wanted further development, to include lots of advanced options. The per-game settings were very nice; Rivatuner had the launcher for nVidia cards; ATi had Radlinker.

Edit: And I see now that PliotronX noted this in a post above.

 

[Corporate Thug]

use rivatuner

 

[Doh!]

Using the Omega Driver set (which includes RadLinker), the setting goes above 570.

 

[Nuggs]

depending on how you set up the scale for the slider tab you can set the core to well over 1000 but we all know that will never work.