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OCing 9800GX2?

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Anyone have a 9800Gx2 and is it safe to overclock with the high tempts?

I have mine at stock at the moment and wondering how high people have got theirs without roasting their legs.

Thanks
 
well, the memory is usually the one that pushes more heat with bigger overclocks, so i would be a bit more conservative with that, concentrate on core and shaders a bit more than mem
 
I know that all cards are different but what sort of range can you expect for the core, shaders and mem?

Like core usually goes from 600 to 750

What are considered the higher ends of the scale for each
 
Mine can bench and fold at 745/1862/1050 core/shader/mem.

But when playing games I lower it to 730/1825/1025. With the fan at max both cores go upto about 90C during a warm day when playing crysis. I do have AS5 applied and the metal case taken off though.

Considering both cores are sharing the same heatsink I'll say mine is an average oc, but a single core 8800GTS/9800GTX/+ are known to overclock to 800Mhz+
 
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