Overclocking Radeon 9700 Pro

[wxrkny]

I have a Radeon 9700 Pro with stock cooling and dont plan on adding any extra cooling. What is a safe overclock with no additional cooling. The 9700 Pro is 324/310.5 without overclocking. My case is pretty cool, 3 rear exhaust and 1 side intake. Is there anyway to measure the temp and if so what are safe temperatures. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[wxrkny]

bump...Please help

 

[Peter D]

If you could get a thermal probe and stick it on the back of the GPU, that would be best..

i thought there was a temp. reading in the video card control panel thing...?

 

[DerwenArtos12]

there are two ways to oc a video card.

crank it up some and test it with benchmarks and heavy games to watch for artifacts,

or

put a thermal probe on the gpu and take it up slowly till you hit a temp you fell safe with, all the while testing and watching for artifacts.

the latter is the safer way of doing it and the suggested way of doing it but the first works.

 

[edmundoab]

i had artifacts when I Oced the core to an addition 25Mhz, and artifacts came out...
not too sure about how far I could OC the ram..

and yes, I was using stock cooling.. ;(

 

[Lyfer]

Slap on some AS3 between the HSF and the core. D/l and install rivatuner from 3dguru.com, and overclock away.


My 9500NP is running fine softmodded to 9700 running 340/305MHZ.


Hope that helps.

 

[pelikan]

I like Radclocker. But there are plenty of good overclocking utilities.
Start with either the memory or the core clock. Find the limit then back it down 10MHz or so for safety. Sometimes you have to reduce the memory clock after raising the core, and vice-versa.
The memory will produce artifacts when clocked too high.
The core will cause the screen to lock up with clocked too high.
Good luck.