Overclocking 7800 GS OC AGP

[Mr Men]

I have the BFG 7800GS OC 256mb AGP card, I understand these are already overclocked? or do I just pay extra for nothing? Anyway would I be able to push it a bit more on stock cooling?

Stock settings are 400MHz/1.25GHz

I done the coolbits auto detect and it gave me settings of

450MHz/1.30GHz

is that about right? dont seem like much gain on the memory, or could I push that more? As I aint ever been brave enough to overclock a CPU then I thought I could begin with the GFX card.

 

[Madgeordie2004]

I have the exact same card, and mine will do 490, 1.4, the core is good for 500, though mine seems a bit noisy that high, I used rivatuner instead

 

[Mr Men]

Cheers will give that a try, are you on stock cooling?

 

[Mr Men]

Got the core running a 490 but my memory wont go higher than 1.35, well it goes to 1.39 but no more so put it back down a bit

got 6629 3dmark 05 is that about right?

Played a bit BF2 with it at those settings, did not seem to have any problems with artifacts and temps were fine at about 60 c after a good hour of playing.

 

[m3csl2004]

sounds way to low

whats the rest of your system?

 

[Mr Men]

AMD 3700 SD
Asrock Dual SataII

Seems not too low compared to others on the orb really unless they are way too low too LOL

Its an AGP card

 

[mrk]

doesnt matter if its agp the score is fine, my oc'd 6800gs gets 5600 in 05 and the 7800gs is just a bit more efficient so should get roundbaout what you are getting in 3dmarks.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

thats a fine score. try some riva tuner mods. iv heard that you have to do some bios flashing but you can unlock some pipes.

 

[mrk]

You cannot unlock a 7800GS, they are laser locked.

 

[Madgeordie2004]

Yup, those clocks seem good, 05 score is good too, and you are right extra pipes are laser locked, so sadly no modding

 

[Cyber-Mav]

oops i mis read, i thought u got 6800gs which unlocks to 16 pipes.