ti4600 OC's

[Pudgygiant]

What's a good point to hit? I'm at 335/750 right now from stock 300/650, perfectly stable after 12 hours villagemark. Sorry if this has been posted before, but I couldn't find any threads on the topic. I'm using a crystal orb and a homebrew slot cooler, and homebrew ramsinks. I can probably (definitely actually) go higher, I didn't see any artifacts at 340/750, but I stepped the core back down for the stress test.

 

[modedepe]

Pretty good overclock so far. You really have to test after each bump to see how high it'll go, as it varies with each card.

 

[MDE]

That's a great OC for a 4600. Mine only got up to 315/720 before it started locking up. Visiontek I'm guessing?

 

[Pudgygiant]

Yeah visiontek. OT: do you know about a program to stress test my card rigorously, or will villagemark/templemark be enough? I'm pretty much running them in 6-hour increments (as that's convenient, like overnight, at school, and whatnot). Thanks for your comments.

 

[MDE]

3DMark 2001/03 are popular.

 

[Pudgygiant]

Monkey, the problem with that is they've been proven to not test real-world conditions as well as a full game. I found a HL demo that looks good, I'm gonna try it in a bit.

 

[Pudgygiant]

OK, I was trying to OC the core a bit more... 335/750, no problems, rock solid. 338/750, no artifacts in a quick test. 341/750, no artifacts, run a half hour of villagemark then start that HL demo... and I get a nv4_disp.dll BSOD. So I'm gonna leave it at 335/750 for now.

 

[jiffylube1024]

^ Typically if something BSOD's from an overclock, I'd drop it down more than just 5 MHz to be safe. But that's just me...

As for the o/c - that's a very good one.

I have a Ti4800 (Ti4600 w/ AGP 8X) that only gets to about 320/710 stably. I think the brand is eVga.

 

[rogue1979]

Thats a good overclock, the GF4 core maxes out about 340 at best without using volt mods and water cooling.