250gts Average Overclock

[Scougar]

Looks like I'll be getting a 250GTS 1GB to replace my 3870... yes I know it's not an ace card nowadays.. and I wish I was going for the 260 or 4870.. but trying to budget and I just sold some bits.... blah blah..

So... what's the average overclock people were getting with this card please?

 

[subbytna]

250 isn't a special overclocker iirc

why not look at getting something like a http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-177-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=708 for £99

 

[Marine-RX179]

250 isn't a special overclocker iirc

Erm...I don't know where you got that info from...

GTS250 is rebranded 9800GTX+, so it should overclock as far as it can.
9800GTX+ spec:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9800_gtx_plus_us.html
GTS250 spec:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gts_250_us.html

9800GTX+ can overclock from clock speed of 738MHz to around 820~850MHz depending on luck, and some will artefact earlier than the other (overclocked much than the GPU can handle or the temp is not low enough). My 9800GTX+ is an unluckly draw, so I can still overclock it up to 770MHz without artefacts appearing. When I run the Heaven Benchmark with the clock speed at 800MHz with the fan profile which I set, there would always have artefacts appearing during the benchmark, however when I set the fan speed to run at 80%, the artefacts would seem to not appear at all.

 

[Scougar]

250 isn't a special overclocker iirc

why not look at getting something like a http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-177-XF&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=708 for £99

Thanks, but likely keeping this one else selling it on, so not really after advice on other cards, but thank you.

Hoping for insight from those that have or have had them. It is a palit 1gb e-green if that matters.

 

[Scougar]

After looking into it, there appears to be a lot of issues with the freeze/lockup/looping noise with 250 gts 1gb. I will likely be giving my friend the card back and keeping an eye on the members market instead for something better. Shame really as when working it ran very smoothly.