OCing a 9600 pro

[DanielHerrmann]

Sapphire gave me an ocing tool called TriXX. It says its set at 222.35 mem clock and 397.05vpu clock and fan speed says 0%. I have bf2 set at:
1600x1200@60 hz
Terrain, effects, geometry, Lighting and Texture filtering and Texture at medium. AA 2x, Dynamic light and Dynamic shadows off and View distance 75.
The card runs fine as far as I can tell with these settings. It doesn't get too loud and its not jumpy at all.

What should I try to overclock it to, and what would make the biggest difference in the game for me to turn up? Any suggestions?

 

[mwmorph]

download ati tray tools and tell it to autodetect your cpu and mem. then back off 5-10mhz for good measure.

 

[DanielHerrmann]

I ran that trixx program and it can diagnose the card to see what its capable of... thats what you're talking about right? so whatevery it says is max, just back both off 5-10mhz and then I probably won't fry it? I ran it at "performance" and it gave me better number, and I am running it at "Extreme" and its going up from there. I'll let you know when its done.

 

[kyparrish]

1600x1200 w/ 2x AA isn't jumpy? Wow, you must have a serious CPU and 2 gigs of ram! Just overclock 10mhz or so at a time until you find the cards sweet spot. I'm thinking 450mhz or so on the core AT LEAST. Unless I'm having a major brain-fart, I thought most 9600pro's had memory speeds of 600mhz effective (300mhz x 2). I think there were 9600pro lites that had slower memory. IF that is the case with your card, you might not have too much headroom to OC the memory, but you might as well try.

 

[DanielHerrmann]

Ok. I did the "extreme" one and it went 249.75 mem clock and 462 vpu. I have 1.5gig ram and 2.66p4. So I shouldn't go ahead and run it at that? I have my normal video settings set at about that resolution too... I just picked one a clicked it.... lol...