Overclocking a Sapphire Radeon 8500LE/128

[fwtong]

The stock speed of my Sapphire Radeon 8500LE 128mb is Core: 250 and Memory: 200. About how much can I overclock it? So far, I used the Omega Driver's Rad Clock utility to get 250/250.

 

[modedepe]

What's your memory rated ?

 

[fwtong]

Originally posted by: modedepe
What's your memory rated ?

I Forgot. I assume that it's the cheaper, slower stuff because the clock rate was set at 250/200. It's a big pain to crack open my case and check to see what it is right now.

 

[Blastman]

The memory on 8500LE?s is usually 4ns. ~ 260 range is usually tops.

 

[Aftermath]

The memory on 8500LE?s is usually 4ns. ~ 260 range is usually tops.

Bingo. Sapphire 8500LE = 8500LELE. The discount discount if you will. It's likely rated at 4.0 to 5.0ns. The core will get you around 300MHz on stock cooling (mine maxes out at about 305). The memory on the other hand will probably get you up to the 240 to 245 range with few/no artifacts. Anything higher, especially in memory bandwidth intensive games, will display horrible artifacts.