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o/cing a 8800gts

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i've had my 8800gts for a few days now and was thinking about o/cing it, would i be able to get much out of it?

could someone explain to me how to exactly do it or at least link me to a guide.

cheers
-Nick-
 
-Nick- said:
i've had my 8800gts for a few days now and was thinking about o/cing it, would i be able to get much out of it?

could someone explain to me how to exactly do it or at least link me to a guide.

cheers
-Nick-
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Download ATI Tool
Set you Core and Mem clocks at stock and then just up one or the other 5 Mhz at a time and run the tool for finding artifacts.
Once youve reached the limit for one, do the other.
 
pegasus1 said:
Download ATI Tool
Set you Core and Mem clocks at stock and then just up one or the other 5 Mhz at a time and run the tool for finding artifacts.
Once youve reached the limit for one, do the other.
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what clocks could i expect btw?
 
Do the clock first and find the max, as according to 'some' hardware site they reckon more performance is gained that way.

Also, if your not afraid of bios flashing, then take a look at increasing the shader clocks (which will yield about 10% performance boost purely by themselves if your lucky :D), then you overclock the core/mem. Careful though as the shader speed is linked to the clock speed (read up on it and good luck :))

Matthew
 
ok i've used ati tool and i'm at 620MHz and 935MHz atm and found no artifact and sitting on 55 oC idle. shouldi go test it out by playing something demanding eg. stalker? how do i find the temps of it under load?

i also got rivatuner but i don't understand it really, so i'm only using the hardware monitoring feature on it

EDIT: When i have ati tool on the temps go up to about 61-66oC is that it under load or what's the craic there?
 
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-Nick- said:
ok i've used ati tool and i'm at 620MHz and 935MHz atm and found no artifact and sitting on 55 oC idle. shouldi go test it out by playing something demanding eg. stalker? how do i find the temps of it under load?

i also got rivatuner but i don't understand it really, so i'm only using the hardware monitoring feature on it
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Thats what i do, also give 3D Mark 06 a run and look for sparklies and tearing.
ATI tool will write the temps to a log
 
Stalker is a good work out, but buggy unfortunatley. You might only want to go with the 'high' setting textures, as the 'maximum' textures makes the pc go mental with constant hard disk access (destroying the frame rate to about 1 fps at times!) and making the machine unstable.

There may be an initial period of loading, but you may know this already. (Bizarrely, it worked lovely and smooth (on lower settings) on my 6800LE 128Mb lol, but not on my x1950xt).

Personally I would try a different game as you won't be able to tell if the crashes are from stalker throwing a fit, or the gfx throwing a wobbly. Maybe oblivion on high settings if you can take it?

Matthew
 
pegasus1 said:
Thats what i do, also give 3D Mark 06 a run and look for sparklies and tearing.
ATI tool will write the temps to a log
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cheers man, will give it a go in a min
 
Scougar said:
Stalker is a good work out, but buggy unfortunatley. You might only want to go with the 'high' setting textures, as the 'maximum' textures makes the pc go mental with constant hard disk access (destroying the frame rate to about 1 fps at times!) and making the machine unstable.

There may be an initial period of loading, but you may know this already. (Bizarrely, it worked lovely and smooth (on lower settings) on my 6800LE 128Mb lol, but not on my x1950xt).

Personally I would try a different game as you won't be able to tell if the crashes are from stalker throwing a fit, or the gfx throwing a wobbly. Maybe oblivion on high settings if you can take it?

Matthew
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well i've been playing stalker for 2 days now with everything max and havn't had a crash or anything, with a nice steady 50-60 fps, the ocassional jump at certian points but can't complain atm
 
Scougar said:
Stalker is a good work out, but buggy unfortunatley.
Personally I would try a different game as you won't be able to tell if the crashes are from stalker throwing a fit, or the gfx throwing a wobbly.
Matthew
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STALKER with the latest patch is much improved, its the lighting settings that kills framerates on anything other than a GTX.
 
It runs LOVELY on my X1950XT as long as the hard disk access isn't happening. It is wonderfully playable :) I can only think the constant loading of off screen textures is killing the game with constant HDD access (it pauses for several seconds at a time.)

I have 1.003 and the floating point mod, maybe the 1.004 patch when it comes out will improve things. (not gonna use the -noprefetch switch as the floatingpoint32 mod needs that apparently).

Stalker still isn't a stable game.


Matthew
 
ok played stalker there for about an hour and no problems, seems stable and never went about 67 oC
 
I use ATI to, Just clocked my 8800gts I use the find max mem till I get artifacts then back off till its stable, then I set the memory back to stock and repeat to find the max core. When thats done I look for artifacts with both the mem and core clocked with the results from the first tests.
 
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