Earlier this week I replaced the stock cooler on my Sapphire x800GTO Fireblade (stock 400/490...r480, 1.6 sammy ram) with an Arctic Cooling Silencer 5 (rev 2). Proceeded to test for max core/mem...core jumped to 610 stable, but mem only hits 565 stable (ran both for 1hr+ individually, then 1hr+together). With stock cooling I could hit 530/590 stable.
Last night I took the card out, took it apart to recheck all the seatings, put it back together and get the same results. On the underside of the card, 2 of the ram pads from the cooler are about 1 mm to the left or the right of the ram itself, which doesn't cover them completely. It looks like the pads were just glued to the metal part slighly off of where they should've been. Could this be the problem? If so, any suggestions to fix it myself?
I'm not complaining re:the OC (6700 3dMark05, up from 6300 w/stock cooling), but I notice almost everybody's ram OC's higher than the core, so thinking something's amiss...
Thanks for any advice.
...oh, and if it matters, Opteron 144 @ 2610 vcore 1.42, DFI Ultra-D, 1 gig Corsair VS.
Last night I took the card out, took it apart to recheck all the seatings, put it back together and get the same results. On the underside of the card, 2 of the ram pads from the cooler are about 1 mm to the left or the right of the ram itself, which doesn't cover them completely. It looks like the pads were just glued to the metal part slighly off of where they should've been. Could this be the problem? If so, any suggestions to fix it myself?
I'm not complaining re:the OC (6700 3dMark05, up from 6300 w/stock cooling), but I notice almost everybody's ram OC's higher than the core, so thinking something's amiss...
Thanks for any advice.
...oh, and if it matters, Opteron 144 @ 2610 vcore 1.42, DFI Ultra-D, 1 gig Corsair VS.
). I'll let you know what my results are, and if I run into the same issue.
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