Would you be sceptical of this ?

[otispunkmeyer]

ive just ran ATi tool for 2 hours on my 9500pro.....its from connect 3d so is basically a stock product
it was bought pretty much toward the end of the R300's life, jus before 350/360 came

ATI tool has been hovering at 380mhz core clock for the last 1 hour 20 mins, 380mhz! with stock heatsink and fan............i am not sure about this

what do you think?

 

[TStep]

I've tried the ATI tool to automatically find my max mem and core. It gave me results that were way too high. I have used it manually to overclock, but I won't use it automatically anymore.

In a word, Yes I am skeptical of the results ATI tool delivers, but No I would not doubt a 9500 could do 380. My 9500/9700 softmod would do 370 with ease - stock fan.

 

[sandorski]

Yup, I tried it once too and the Auto result was way beyond what I knew was stable. It was clocking my 9600 Pro's GPU into the 512mhz area when I decided to stop it. My own Manual attempts showed that the GPU began artifacting heavily in 3Dmark 2k3 and UT2k3 around 470mhz. It's an interesting Tool, but I decided not to try it again.

 

[ShawnD1]

ATI Tool doesn't work with memory overclocking. I set ATI Tool to find the max mem speed, and it totally overshot. My Radeon 9600XT has a stock memory speed of 337MHz. ATI Tool had the memory up to 410MHz and it was still going. The screen was completely star trek (you know exactly what I mean), but ATI Tool kept boosting the speed higher and higher until the computer froze.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I'd never trust "automated overclocking". For me, it was way too low. It cut out at 360/425 for my FireGL QS. Riight. RadLinker says 450/500 all day long.

- M4H

 

[Cawchy87]

ATI tool had my 9600XT up to around 610/340 before i stopped it and clocked to realisic speeds (547/317) i wouldn't trust it!

 

[Robor]

That's odd... ATITool did a good job on both core and mem speeds on mine. I'd previously tested the limits using 3DMark and ATITool came very close in both. I have a 9800NP flashed to Pro BTW.

 

[Kmax82]

Yea.. I used ATITool before and it did a decent job of o/c'ing this 8500le that I had.. I tried manually and then automatically and came pretty close. I got a little more out of it manually, but I was expecting that...

K-Max