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Realistic 6800GT overclocks

crsgardner

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What's a realistic, "safe" overclock for a 6800GT (in my case, eVGA's)? 400/1100? A little higher? I don't want to go nuts with the cooling, as I'd like to stay with the stock fan. Coolbits claims it'll run fine at 412/1120. Any ideas what one should shoot for?
 
i can run mine 420/1.1 with no overheating... when i push to 420/1.2 i get artifacts... but thats just due to lack of voltage.. not lack of cooling
 
Originally posted by: Evdawg
i can run mine 420/1.1 with no overheating... when i push to 420/1.2 i get artifacts... but thats just due to lack of voltage.. not lack of cooling

same I get 1140 on the memory though. It doesn't get hot though as he says it just runs out of juice.
 
I've got the option to raise my AGP voltage by .2 in my BIOS. Will that make a difference? I usually don't like to play around with voltages (fear of frying stuff).
 
Originally posted by: JBT
Originally posted by: Evdawg
i can run mine 420/1.1 with no overheating... when i push to 420/1.2 i get artifacts... but thats just due to lack of voltage.. not lack of cooling

same I get 1140 on the memory though. It doesn't get hot though as he says it just runs out of juice.

I'll have to agree with the boys. 424/1150 here and it's definately a matter of voltage...
Why do you want to risk o/c it higher? 3Dmark05? Is there a particular application that I'm not aware of?
Ultra speeds are just fine for everyone IMO even for a high end cpu.
 
I think I hit like 415/1150 or something like that. But I figure 400/1.1 is good enough so that I don't stress the card too much. I think I've heard that upping the voltage by that much shouldn't make a difference, anyone have another opinion/experience?
 
Try 400/1100 for a day and see how it performs. Run games like doom 3 if you have it or 3dmark2k5 to check for artifacts and temps under load. Check the idle temps of it when you are just surfing the web.

I tried for 400/1100 since that seemed to be the common number and had no problems with it. I monitored my temps idle, while surfing the web and under load with doom 3 for a few weeks to get the general idle and load temps. My temps were 48-51 idle and topped at 68 under load so i decided to try the 1.4 volt bios mod and now I run at 420/1100. Before the .1 volt increase, auto detect was 405/1100, after the .1 increase it is 418/1130 with idle temps from 50-54 and topped at 71 load. I didn't push the memory speed higher even though it detected higher after volt mod cause memory speed increases provided much smaller gains than increasing the core and cause 2D and 3D memorys is synchronized. Since 2D mode is set to 1.1 volt and 3D is 1.3 by default, raising the memory speed for 3D mode may have no problems at 1.4 but since i didn't increase the 2D mode volt, this might cause instability if i tried for higher memory speeds without increasing the 2D mode volt as well.

If you want to try the volt mod increase, it is done through a very simple bios flash to the videocard, there's no need to increase voltage to agp from the MB bios. But if you do decide to try .1 volt increase, check to make sure your idle temps under basic use is 55 or lower and that under load is 70 or lower. I only decided to do this cause my temps were only 48-51 idle and 68 load thus i had no worries of overheating. Most people that tried this had success in increasing or making their speeds more stable since the .1 increase is just bringing the GT to the Ultra standard of 1.4 volts.
 
400/1100 is plenty of a over clock. Especially for the GT. Go any further all you are doing in decreasing the life span of the card for .1 of a frame per second.
 
Most high end gfx cards today require additional cooling as the stock cooling is barely enough to keep it at safe temps...if you are going to OC the 6800GT (which i see no reason for) then get a heatsink or risk frying a 400 dollar card
 
Originally posted by: crsgardner
I've got the option to raise my AGP voltage by .2 in my BIOS. Will that make a difference? I usually don't like to play around with voltages (fear of frying stuff).

You are talking about vAGP in the BIOS. I do NOT recommend doing that. You need to do a BIOS flash to your video card that changes vGPU not the vAGP.

Most high end gfx cards today require additional cooling as the stock cooling is barely enough to keep it at safe temps...if you are going to OC the 6800GT (which i see no reason for) then get a heatsink or risk frying a 400 dollar card

Thats BS you can OC pretty much all cards with out extra cooling.
 
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