PNY 7900GS

[James Bond]

I recently added a PNY GeForce7900GS to my computer.

I installed coolbits and began attempting an overclock.

When nVidia did the "find best settings", I got up to about 475MHz.... (25MHz faster..).

I played with it myself, doing the trial and error, and can't even get it up to 500MHz.

Did I just get a crappy card?

 

[Kromis]

Well, it *is* PNY...

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: Kromis
Well, it *is* PNY...

Heh, I realize that

I wouldn't even be complaining, except I keep seeing people overclocking up to 550MHz+ on their first try...

 

[mblue]

I bought the same card and got to 520 on the core, but the results were no significant increase in perfermance. So, I left it at stock, it was running a Zalman cooler that kept it at 32 idle and 38 load so temps were great. The bad news and I'm sure you don't want to hear this. It crapped out after 3 days of use and would lockup during anything in 3d mode. It was fine for 2d, so I had a 7900gs for internet surfing. Long story short, it went back to BB and I now have a Evga 7900gs KO on the way for ~10 bucks more. On a side note mine lockedup when I first tried coolbits on day 1, so that was probably the first bad sign, I just didn't put 2 and 2 together.

 

[Zap]

Overclocking is always YMMV. No matter how many people trumpet their uber-high clocks around here and claim such and such CPU/GPU is "guaranteed" to clock so high, do not expect anything.

I actually never overclocked my PNY 7900GS card from Best Buy. So far been running it for just over a month with no problems, with a bit of gaming (WoW, CoH, WolfET). I did put a passive dual heatpipe cooler on it, and it runs in the high 40's in Windows, and low 60's running 3D games.