So I recently bought a new Visiontek X800 PCI-E 128MB DDR1 off of a forum member for $72 (I believe he got in on the $62AR deal). As is the rule with any bargain video cards, I felt that I *had* to overclock this puppy 😀
The stock HSF was of course crap, so I bought (and just installed) a Zalman VF700-AlCu LED with Arctic Cooling's MX-1 Thermal compound. Now instead of about 52C idle and as high as 77C load, the video card runs at 42C idle and 54C load...
Anyways, in the process of installing the HSF, I noticed the card had an "R430 X800 Pro" core label... with a bit of searching it seems to be ATI selling failed 16-pipes by disabling 4 pipes and making a budget, lower-clocked 12-pipe part.
I used ATITool to overclock and find max core/mem, stock settings were 390/350
Maximum overclock was 442/445
Discuss 😛
The stock HSF was of course crap, so I bought (and just installed) a Zalman VF700-AlCu LED with Arctic Cooling's MX-1 Thermal compound. Now instead of about 52C idle and as high as 77C load, the video card runs at 42C idle and 54C load...
Anyways, in the process of installing the HSF, I noticed the card had an "R430 X800 Pro" core label... with a bit of searching it seems to be ATI selling failed 16-pipes by disabling 4 pipes and making a budget, lower-clocked 12-pipe part.
I used ATITool to overclock and find max core/mem, stock settings were 390/350
Maximum overclock was 442/445
Discuss 😛
