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phoenix88

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Just got my new video card and tomshardware forums has crapped out on me, so hopefully this forums will be a little more helpful. I'm wanting to overclock it, it has the RV360 core and Hynix 2.8ns memory. Whenever I try to overclock, I go in steps of 5mhz starting from stock. Stock for my 9600xt is 500mhz core and 600mhz memory. I think its the core thats holding me back. I'm using ATI tool, and when I overclock 10mhz, it will go ok for about 5 sec and then it my computer will freeze totally and I will have to hard shut down. I've tried upping my AGP voltage, nothing I've tried has worked. Any advice?
 
Is the card stable at stock rates?
Can you play a game for a few hours without a crash/freeze?

If overclocking causes the freeze, the only way to possibly make it stable is to improve your cooling.

If you have problems even at stock rates, you have to solve them before you overclock.
 
how strong and what brand is your power supply?

also.. install the latest drivers for your video card and try and overclock again.. when it freezes, leave your computer alone for a minute. if it's your video card, then the vpu recover should set all settings to default.
 
why're you using softmodded drivers? you have a 9600xt.. the drivers won't do anything for your card. use ati's drivers.

don't use sapphires.. get the drivers from ati.. not sapphire.
 
Originally posted by: phoenix88
I can usually play at stock speeds. I've had games freeze and my system crash at stock speeds.
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Are you saying that you have freezes at stock frequency and now are wondering why it freezes when overclocked?

Use atitool to put your GPU temperature on your taskbar.
http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

Stop overclocking.
Play a game for half an hour. Then, check the GPU temperature
What is it?

Very likely, you need to improve the cooling of your case and if that does not help, your graphics card.
 
I don't think I need to improve the cooling of my case, it usually stays below 30c, I have 2 120mm fans(1 intake, 1 exhaust), 2 fans on my PSU, and a Volcano 12 which really moves some air. The temps on the graphics card never got that high. The temperature drops too fast to be able to minimize a game to see how hot it is. So I played counter-strike in window mode and the temp got up to 46c, I doubt it gets too much higher in Doom3 or benchmarks. I would try to RMA this but I don't feel/have the money to pay for s/h back to Newegg. I'm this is a fixable problem, stock cooling should be able to keep cool at stock speed and then some, and it does. I don't get what the problem is. 🙁
 
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