Question about OCing Radeon 9000 Pro 64mb

[pyonir]

So i'm a n00b to overclocking and i'm using Rage3D Tweak v3.8 to overclock my video card. I have a p4 1.7ghz with 384mb of RDRam.

When I go to the overclocker tab, my current settings are at:

Core Clock: 249.75 mhz
Memory Clock: 380.25 mhz

Everything i can find for suggested overclocks for this card is like 275/275 or 300/300. How can the default settting be at 380.25? I'm completely lost! HELP! PLEASE!

 

[CurtCold]

It's actually at 190, you can say 380, but try to overclock to 225, or 250 you might be able to get that. IF your lucky. 250/250 would be nice. I don't think your going to get to 275/275, but then again you might get lucky.

Before someone starts screaming, it's at 380, I dunno if that's double pumped or what? But you might get it to 500 if you wanna look at it that way. I see people refer to the speeds both ways.

 

[Mloot]

Did you get a Powercolor card? They seem to like to sell cards that fall somewhere (sometimes alot) below stock speeds.

 

[Slaimus]

Radeon 9000's have overclocking protection in the BIOS. That is probably causing that behavior.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Mloot
Did you get a Powercolor card? They seem to like to sell cards that fall somewhere (sometimes alot) below stock speeds.

Yeah..it is powercolor

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: Slaimus
Radeon 9000's have overclocking protection in the BIOS. That is probably causing that behavior.

Everything i read, that is for the regular 9000 and it says 'n/a' I have a pro.