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X700 LE Overclocking

has any test ever shown ramsinks to work? i thought the problem with memory was capacitance, not heat
 
i use atitool with that card but i have the 400/250 version from asus, got it from a guy on this forum who bought it from newegg, its a good card for its price
 
Did you already buy the card? If not I'm sure there are much better options for that price range.
 
Why dont you spend the few extra dollars and get this one:

here

The core is clocked @425MHz and it has DDR3 clocked @860MHZ too. Ramsinks for TSOP mem chips is harder to find these days, and with DDR3 you might find you don't need ramsinks. AND I would not waste my money on a Zalman vidcard fan, but invest in a higher tier video card/GPU instead.
 
I already got the card, I live in canada, so the range of cards I could get was limited for the $100 price range. So do I need to buy an adapter?
 
just let ati tool run. when it hits the top, back off 20-30mhz as a precautionary measure and just run it like that.
 
shouldnt be if you set the numers right. Cards rarely if ever get damaged by ocing unless you do it insainely.
 
it will stop it at the first sight of artifacts(slight visual corruption) which always happed far before physical damage begins.
 
It could very well be yuor power supply. My comp has never restarted because of ocing. Keep it at 475 though, that's the Unreleased X700xt speed or comparable to a 6600gt(a bit faster).
 
do you have a 24pin mb? the 4 pins are supposed for extra power to the pci-e slot whgich may be your problem.

from the 24pin psu thread
(Q) (Q) the new "xyx" motherboard has a 24pin plug - so do i need a new 24pin PSU ?

Not necessarely. All the upcoming new boards (eg. Nforce 4) SHOULD be capable of running with an "old" ATX 1.3 20pin-plug equipped PSU as well as with a new ATX 2.0 24pin PSU.

The question here is rather whether the PSU itself is a good brand name PSU with sufficient wattage. Dont expect a recent high-end system with pci-express card(s) and A64 CPU to run flawlessly off an old 350W noname PSU.

(Q) but what about the extra 4 pins on the PSU plug/motherboard connector ?

These four extra pins on the newer ATX 2.0 PSUs are solely for providing power to the pci-express port . I guess the specs demanded a separation of the power-rails for CPU/motherboard and high-end graphics.
Therefore they put the additional rails on the plug/motherboard which provides +12V, +5V, +3.3 and GND to the pci-express slot.
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probably waht is the model of your power supply? what is it's +1V2 and +5V rails rated at/what is the wattage?
It's not required but with many power supplies, it's better to plug in the extra 4 pins, especially when drawing more power than usual like ocing.
 
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