How high do you have your 9600 vid card O/C?

[Cawchy87]

Specificly the Radeon 9600XT.

Personaly i have the ATI built version but i would be interested to see how others preform.
Also i would love to see the O/C's that people have made with their own cards, nvidia or ATI to help with my next purchase.

Stock: 500 core 300 memory
O/C: 544 core 344 memory

Much higher and i get a lot of artifacts. However

Rage3D got their 9600XT to 580 core and 345 memory. I tryed that and my screen went screwy and then my computer shut off. Just wondering if anyone has gotten a 9600XT near that with stock cooling. Also, is there anything that i can do to my card (not voiding the warrenty) that would help get those O/C speeds up?

 

[Dman877]

You oc'd the card, you already voided your warranty... but as to more ocing, I suggest a vga silencer, excellent vga cooling and quiet.

 

[SneakyStuff]

Or, as a cheaper alternative, if you aren't comforatable tinkering with the stock cooler, invest in RAMsinks for the memory. Get a set of these Thermaltake, cut them in half to fit your RAM, and then you can put them on the front, and back of your card's RAM. With good airflow in your case, that would cool that RAM down a bit, letting you push it mabye 20-25 MHz more.

 

[Keysplayr]

I O/C'd mine so high, it died.

 

[clicknext]

9600Pro AIW

From
400/650
To
500/700

 

[Sylvanas]

9600pro stock 400/600

OC 485\668 its running fine no artifacts but i suppose theres room for a little more...

 

[Blastman]

I?m going to say overclocking is probably ok as far as warranty goes. Most cards these days come with overclocking utilities, for eg. Sapphire has their Redline utility. ATI even encourages overclocking with their overdrive built into the standard drivers. I don?t see how they can encourage the practice and then say ? oh but your warranty is void now.

As far as overclocking. If the memory is really close to its limit, sometimes the core won?t overclock as high as if you just left the memory at stock. You could try backing down the memory to ~ 325 and see if the core goes higher. It?s really a crap shoot and some cards just don?t overclock well.

 

[Blastman]

344 is good from the 3.3ns Samsungs -- several reviews I read got between 338 -345.

The cores on the 9600XT?s usually make 570 - 580mhz. YMMV.