ATI 1900 overclocking

[redbox]

Hello,

I must say that I am very happy that ATI has such a good product I had waited for this for a very long time and broke down and bought a 7800gt about four months ago. I am very happy with it. I bought the EVGA model with copper heatsink and it overclocks very nice. I love the ease of Coolbits.

Here is the thing, I overclock about everything on my system and what made me jump on the 7800 from EVGA is there lifetime warrenty on the card covering everything execpt physical damage to the card.

I was wondering if ATI had a vendor with the same approach to customer service as EVGA and also what the warrenties on the current ATI's are? The thought of overclocking a $500 part without a warrenty to fall back on doesn't suit me.

Thank you for you time.

 

[Zstream]

Originally posted by: redbox
Hello,

I must say that I am very happy that ATI has such a good product I had waited for this for a very long time and broke down and bought a 7800gt about four months ago. I am very happy with it. I bought the EVGA model with copper heatsink and it overclocks very nice. I love the ease of Coolbits.

Here is the thing, I overclock about everything on my system and what made me jump on the 7800 from EVGA is there lifetime warrenty on the card covering everything execpt physical damage to the card.

I was wondering if ATI had a vendor with the same approach to customer service as EVGA and also what the warrenties on the current ATI's are? The thought of overclocking a $500 part without a warrenty to fall back on doesn't suit me.

Thank you for you time.

I do not believe that any company has a warranty for overclocking as you could increase speeds by +1ghz on core and ram and blow the thing up. Sapphire has a good warranty, go to the site and they have all the information needed.

 

[mwmorph]

evga has a oc warranty. They even cover custom coolers.

 

[redbox]

EVGA covered it as long as you didn't burn anything on the board or such. Basicaly you coud change heatsinks and the lot with out voiding the warrenty.

I was also wondering how ATI cards get overclocked. am i right in asuming they can't use Coolbits?

Are there things like coolbits for ATI that are as easy to use.

 

[mwmorph]

download ati tray tools and it'll auto overclock to the point of artifacts and then back it off a bit. ati tool is a alternative hat does almost the same thing, but ati tray tools is mroe useful.

 

[sodcha0s]

Powercolor has a lifetime warranty, which seems to cover everything except physical damage to the card.

 

[redbox]

do you have the information to that powercolor warrenty i went on sapphire's site but couldn't find much about warrenties.

 

[sodcha0s]

Powercolor warranty news on this page.