Another 8800GTS....Installed

gurusan · 11 Sep 2007 at 12:48

BFG 8800GTS 640mb OC arrived today to upgrade my 7900GT.

3dmark06 run @ stock...I'm assuming this is a great score as it's about 3000 points more than my overclocked 7900GT

Idle temp is around 50-52 degrees...and it's a very quiet card! I'll try out some more games and post back later...but so far I'm very pleased.

elmuzzy66. · 11 Sep 2007 at 13:23

Nice i get 9000+ with the same card at 600. They are good clockers these cards. same upgrade as you. The difference blew me away

gurusan · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:05

What kinds of clocks are most people getting to on the stock cooling?

I just put a side fan on my antec 900 and now idle temps are around 46-48 now with the fan at 100%....and during a 3dmark06 run it doesn't go over 58c..... so i think it can probably clock decently

Greebo · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:08

gurusan said:
What kinds of clocks are most people getting to on the stock cooling?

I just put a side fan on my antec 900 and now idle temps are around 46-48 now with the fan at 100%....and during a 3dmark06 run it doesn't go over 58c..... so i think it can probably clock decently

See my sig for my overclock.

Nice stock temps there. I know i;m overclocking but I get 58C on idle and 82C on games at 100% fan so you have plenty of headroom there.

Carling · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:41

gurusan said:
What kinds of clocks are most people getting to on the stock cooling?

I just put a side fan on my antec 900 and now idle temps are around 46-48 now with the fan at 100%....and during a 3dmark06 run it doesn't go over 58c..... so i think it can probably clock decently

I run mine at 680/2000, stock cooling fan running at 100%, not loud at all.

I can get through a bit of 3dmark06 at 700/2100 but it always crashes at some point.

Edit, mine is an A3 core.

gurusan · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:45

This is interesting....I assume this shows that WIC is quite CPU dependent?

The settings below are identical (1280x1024, preset "very high" settings)

7900GT @ 675/910

8800GTS @ stock 550/792

Carling · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:47

7900GT will be DX9.. are you running the GTS at DX9 or DX10?

gurusan · 11 Sep 2007 at 16:48

Both are run under identical settings in Win XP x64...so DX9

gurusan · 11 Sep 2007 at 19:26

Carling said:
I run mine at 680/2000, stock cooling fan running at 100%, not loud at all.

I can get through a bit of 3dmark06 at 700/2100 but it always crashes at some point.

Edit, mine is an A3 core.

Seems as if the max of mine is 648/1512/2052 (core/shader/mem)...temps are really amazing...I dunno if it's my case or what...but this thing runs about as cool as my 7900GT with the VF-900. Load temps never go above about 64-65c with rthdribl running. I assume temps are accurate as everest, rivatuner, and nvmonitor all report the same.

How do you know which core you have?

tsinc80697 · 11 Sep 2007 at 19:51

Never overclocked a graphics card before but when people are saying 680/2000 what is that in referance to as my 8800GTS atm is running at 660/950(core/memory), nowhere near 2000?

gurusan · 11 Sep 2007 at 20:20

tsinc80697 said:
Never overclocked a graphics card before but when people are saying 680/2000 what is that in referance to as my 8800GTS atm is running at 660/950(core/memory), nowhere near 2000?

2000mhz effective...it's DDR memory (double data rate)...so you multiply by two.

Same as standard DDR and DDR2 ram...PC6400 = 400fsb = DDR 800

WarBird · 11 Sep 2007 at 20:22

i get nearly 12k with my rig and i use that card, great clocker!

tsinc80697 · 11 Sep 2007 at 20:28

gurusan said:
2000mhz effective...it's DDR memory (double data rate)...so you multiply by two.

Same as standard DDR and DDR2 ram...PC6400 = 400fsb = DDR 800

ah thanks a lot

What program you lot using to overclock?

nTune doesnt say what is stable or not, Rivatuner just lets you put it on whatever. Is there not a piece of software where you change the speed then test it and it says passed/failed?

Tried ATI tools aswell as someone said that works on nvidia cards but it doesnt!

10631 on 3DMark06

576/1900

LoadsaMoney · 11 Sep 2007 at 20:30

tsinc80697 said:
What program you lot using to overclock?

Everyone just uses Rivatuner.

gurusan · 11 Sep 2007 at 20:31

I have been using rivatuner to set the clocks, and I've found nvidia's geoforms demo to be the best for stability testing.

GTRacer · 11 Sep 2007 at 20:37

I can only hit 636/1458/1900 on my 320mb with everything stable.

tsinc80697 · 11 Sep 2007 at 20:51

LoadsaMoney said:
Everyone just uses Rivatuner.

So you set the clock speed and then click apply, how do you if its ok or not? Have to go through a test in a seperate program to check for artifacting ?

gurusan · 11 Sep 2007 at 21:38

tsinc80697 said:
So you set the clock speed and then click apply, how do you if its ok or not? Have to go through a test in a seperate program to check for artifacting ?

Yes. I use geoforms and 3dmark06

Greebo · 11 Sep 2007 at 21:44

ATi tools works fine (or at least the latest version does)

I use that to find my max core, then max mem and use those settings in rivatuner.

Easy peasy.

Oh and mine is 650/1588/2120 (core/shader/mem)

tsinc80697 · 11 Sep 2007 at 22:00

Ah thats ok then, I just keep using 3dmark06 once I have overclocked.

ill try and get ATI Tools to work now though.

11169 3DMarks, best yet!