Someone smart help me out here...

[chazdraves]

Well... as it says. I've got the voltages at 1.7 right now and (with a heatsink/pipe solution which encompasses the entire vid card and a 80mm fan blowing RIGHT on it) I can only get a 50MHz gain in core speed before VPU recover kicks in and says it stopped responding... I've tried turning off VPU Recover but it still freezes, just doesn't fix itself then... Even after an hour or so of Far Cry my temps were only 39C with it set at 50 over on core... worse yet, I can only get 15 outta the RAM... bleh! I blame that on this heatsink though, it's more of a core solution, and it don't look like I can fit my other heatsinks underneath it to cool the RAM... Anywho, anyone got any ideas? It's running plenty cool, but it seems to think otherwise... Thanks in advance!

- Chaz

 

[Noid]

It sounds like your setting the AGP voltage in BIOS ?
That's not how you overclock a VC.

Set AGP back to 1.5.

An OC isnt gauranteed on any component.

But, ACTIVE cooling is a must for a descent OC. (IMO)
And, a COPPER HSF unit is the best way to go.

But, it looks to me like you wanted a 'quiet' cooling solution.
(dunno how quiet your 80mm fan is...)

I have a cyrstal orb on my GPU, and alpha fins on my DDR.
(I have a nice OC with that)

Anyhow,,,, a 50 Mhz OC on core sounds good to me.
You need more reading on other OC's, and compare.

BTW,,, your thread should be in the Video forum, you'll get more answers there.

 

[chazdraves]

The reason I had the voltage up is because I was told that would help improve the reception strength of the video card's signal... but maybe that was a bunch of bull...

Yeah, this maybe is more appropriate for the Video forum, but whaddya do at this point...

With regards to the card:

I had hoped having such a massive heatsink with an 80mm fan blowing right on it would be enough to get me a bit more OC outta the 9600XT, I know I've seen 9600XTs in 3DMark03 that were running at a 770Core... though I couldn't tell yah much more about 'em than that... maybe I just got a bad one, maybe hoping for 600 is ridiculous anyhow, I don't know... Anywho, I think I'm gonna have to get an x800 in a week or two the way it is, so I'm not gonna sweat it... thanks for the advice though, I'm sure it'll go to good use!

- Chaz

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

Originally posted by: chazdraves
The reason I had the voltage up is because I was told that would help improve the reception strength of the video card's signal... but maybe that was a bunch of bull...

Yeah, this maybe is more appropriate for the Video forum, but whaddya do at this point...

With regards to the card:

I had hoped having such a massive heatsink with an 80mm fan blowing right on it would be enough to get me a bit more OC outta the 9600XT, I know I've seen 9600XTs in 3DMark03 that were running at a 770Core... though I couldn't tell yah much more about 'em than that... maybe I just got a bad one, maybe hoping for 600 is ridiculous anyhow, I don't know... Anywho, I think I'm gonna have to get an x800 in a week or two the way it is, so I'm not gonna sweat it... thanks for the advice though, I'm sure it'll go to good use!

- Chaz

Holy beans that sounds like water cooling at a mininum with voltage mods to the board itself to me

 

[Cawchy87]

i got the exact same o/c ing results from the card with ramsinks, a vga scilencer and a vantech tornado blowing on it. just can't do anything about it. 9600xt's are bad for o/c ing, ram especially

 

[StrangerGuy]

No matter what you do, please DON'T mess with the AGP voltage! I won't help your OC and it can kill your card.

 

[chazdraves]

The AGP voltage is down to 1.5 again...

I think that guy put some serious work into getting that 770, and I know it was one of those HIS Ice cards, not just an ATI, other than that I'm not sure what drivers he was running and such...

I noticed in the 6800UE comparison Anandtech just ran, they only used Cat 4.4 for the 9700 and 9800, is that maybe a more reliable driver for the older cards? Like I say, I'm only at 39C on a heavy game load and it still locks up, should have plenty of temp to go before it's too hot... Just seems like the crashing is more software than hardware... Any comments?

Also, any recommendations on liquid cooling solutions?

Thanks again, you guys are a great help!

- Chaz