Pushing My 9600xt

[wicaed]

Ok, I have a 9600xt the built-by-ati version, and i have a artic cooling silencer on it, OCZ ramsinks and artic silver 5, i have overclocked the memory by 80 and the core by 22 , so its at 522/680, these are the speeds of a 9800pro or if not higher. I'm getting very unnoticable artifacting. But I see some people overclocking their card over 100mhz or is that just for higher end cards?

 

PS. its only running at 31celcuis

[tbone2sk]

Ok, I have a 9600xt the built-by-ati version, and i have a artic cooling silencer on it, OCZ ramsinks and artic silver 5, i have overclocked the memory by 80 and the core by 22 , so its at 522/680, these are the speeds of a 9800pro or if not higher. I'm getting very unnoticable artifacting. But I see some people overclocking their card over 100mhz or is that just for higher end cards?

 

PS. its only running at 31celcuis

477033[/snapback]

Some people can overclock those cards a lot, becuase they vmod them.

[wicaed]

whats the secret to vmod , is there any guides for it?

[spazmire11]

or they get lucky like me

[ccokeman]

Or get unlucky like me and have to rma it every 3 to 4 months.

[Puck]

whats the secret to vmod , is there any guides for it?

477037[/snapback]

Volt-modding each card is different depending on the circuits/ICs used. I'm sure there are plenty guides around for voltmodding 9600xt's, just be careful. Its fairly easy to kill a video card with too much heat/volts.

 

**edit** heres a guide - http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?locat...var1=114&var2=0 **edit**

[zigen]

they ARE surpassed the speeds (Corewise) compared to the 9800pro but they only have 4 pipelines if im not mistaken, and the 9800pro has 8

[Waco]

they ARE surpassed the speeds (Corewise) compared to the 9800pro but they only have 4 pipelines if im not mistaken, and the 9800pro has 8

477369[/snapback]

Yep...the 9600 pro could be running at speeds MUCH higher than a stock 9800pro and still get raped by it.

[wicaed]

i woke up this morning to find that my monitor didn't turn on, i checked the problem, i thought, maybe my monitor blew, so i checked it with another monitor, it booted fine. But didn't get to the windows login screen, that point i knew something was wrong, And it wasn't my monitor..

 

So i pulled out the video card, checked it over. Put it back in , worked for a bit, played counterstrike. Monitor displayed stand by and went all black, i still could hear sounds, went back to turn it on and didn't display anything, Put my hand on the card to feel any heat, i have a friggin artic cooling silencer ,ramsinks, and artic silver 5, don't see how this thing could over heat. But the gpu was fine, but i noticed one corner, on the top near the vga connect was sizzling hot. Didn't burn anything but it was pretty hot. (well neither did it burn me) But it was unhealthy hot.. ok back to it, So i put in my 5200fx booted up fine. And here i am , researching the problem..

Put back on manufacturer heatsink and took off ramsinks, re-applied some of my ghetto thermal paste. Looks the same as when i got it.. I sent in a thing to try and get it RMA'd think they'll do it? I think its still overclocked too. Can a card stay overclocked when out of the system? And how would they check if i did overclock it? Or do they not?

[Fireonice]

umm im pritty sure that it wont be oced after u take it out of the system. And how would they know if you oced it unless you told em lol

[Puck]

umm im pritty sure that it wont be oced after u take it out of the system. And how would they know if you oced it unless you told em lol

477402[/snapback]

Unless you oc'ed it with a modded bios it wont be overclocked anymore.

[wicaed]

so i have a chance to rma even after i took off the heatsink and overclocked it?