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My X800 confuses me (overclocking rant)

benjo

benjo

benjo

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Hi all

When i first got my Asus X800XT-PE AGP, i was able to clock it right up to 590/590 on air. But about a month ago something changed and i got this picture:

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2082/000000011je.jpg

Now some of you would say thats broken memory. But after i had restarted and set it back to stock, it was fine. I hadnt overclocked it since.

About 2 mins ago i thought i'd give it a go again. I left the 3d image on ati tool spinning for a while, and my card peaked at about 77C. I moved the slider up 5mhz on the core and off it went.. screen turns multicolour like the image above.

I mean.. 5mhz wont make hardly any difference would it? It's as if as soon as my cards bios clocks are altered slightly it freaks and destroys itself.

When i put it back to bios defaults its fine again :confused:


Another thing.. when i overclocked it a while back, and i got the borked image, i restarted and the picture was fine, until ATi tool loaded up and it went off again.

So all i wanna know is why does my card do this? And what have i changed since i got the high clocks out of it last year?

Also how could i get around this and still be able to overclock a bit more?

Thanks
 
Mines used to be at 580/580 but after time it became unstable so ive left it at what atitool set at which is 567/587 and thats fine for me.

Benjo you still got the stock cooler on it?
 
5bjoshua said:
Mines used to be at 580/580 but after time it became unstable so ive left it at what atitool set at which is 567/587 and thats fine for me.

Benjo you still got the stock cooler on it?
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Yeh stock cooler

Jokester said:
Cores had it, it might continue to deterioate, but I would just leave it at stock and hope for the best.
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Hmm, i dont wanna fork out any more money for a new card.. i think i'll leave it at stock then lol
 
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