HD2600/2400 Series Overclocking and Feedback thread

[Paradox]

What drivers are you using?
Also If someone tells me what they used to dump the bios I have a web site I can host it on.

 

[pt]

i'm using 7.7 and play all my games maxxed but with litte or no aa
edit:
i used atitool to dump it

 

[Paradox]

ATi tool says I don't have a ATi graphics card installed

 

[pt]

ATi tool says I don't have a ATi graphics card installed

what drivers are you using?

 

[Urbklr]

I use some 8.39 beta thingy....in the performance test how many FPS do you get and at what resolution?(in lost planet)
ATitool wont dump my Bios ethier and im using 7.7 for XP

 

[Urbklr]

PT what games do you play and at what resolution?

 

[Paradox]

snow is 22 and cave was 25 with no AA and in windowed

Turns out it was no high, the program kept crashing when I changed the setting. I finally got it to do it and came out with 9/9

 

[pt]

bf2 - 1024x768 everything maxx, 2aa
bf2 hate every ati card i own, this is no exception

c&c 3
1280x1024 evertying maxxed , almost full aa

medieval 2 total war
1280x1024 strategic map
1024x768 battle map
4x anisotropic
0 aa
all at high settings
i can play at max settings except with a 1000 + soldiers, and my battles are always 1000 vs 1000, so no luck there
if all goes well, i'm crossfiring by the end of september

 

[Urbklr]

Thats my new 3Dmark06...its a improvement. i used 7.7 instead of the 7.5's i was using earlier

I run HL2 maxed at 1280x1024 4xAA 8xAF, BF21242 at 1280x1024 maxed no AA 8xAF, and DiRT at medium 1024x768 no AA 8xAF

 

[Paradox]

Here's some over clocking results. Just with CCC.

3dmark05
8861
oc'd 9154


3dmark06
4464
oc'd 4684


CoJ
min 5.2
max 15.2
avg 8.6
oc'd
min 4.3
max 21.5
avg 9.2
CoH
avg 35.1
max 62.0
min 4.5
oc'd
avg 36.7
max 61.9
min 16.9

 

[pt]

06'

HIS Hightech HD2600XT 256MB GDDR4 no overclock on anything.

Also, proof

you already have a better 06 score

 

[Paradox]

That was under XP, these are all with Vista

 

[JRodgA2k7]

Hey guys new to the forums and a fellow 2600xt DDR3 owner, mines being a sapphire.

My highest overclock so far on it is just 830Mhz core and 850mem which from looking at you guys clocks I can clearly achieve much higher on the mem and the 857core clock which I will do tonight now doubt.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2590821

3DMark Score 5128 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 1795 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 2193 Marks
CPU Score 2448 Marks

Using the new 7.8beta's (8.40's) and I see a lot of you are using ATi Tool AND AMD GPU overclocker to get your clocks. How are you doing this? Anytime I try to make a clock stick on these programs the program will either crash...AMD GPU or not stick with the settings and revert to stock....ATi Tool.
Is this because I am using the beta drivers and not the current official 7.7 release?

Usually on OCuK but you guys seem to be the only thread on the net looking to clock these babies Any help would be great

 

[pt]

hi
the 857mhz is easy to achieve, are you using vista or xp?
and check what is written on the ram chips
atitool doesn't work atm
and nice score, for such a lower clocked card

 

[JRodgA2k7]

hi
the 857mhz is easy to achieve, are you using vista or xp?
and check what is written on the ram chips
atitool doesn't work atm
and nice score, for such a lower clocked card

Yeah thought that myself, a decent score with around 150+increase due to the drivers.
Using xp for gaming vista for all my other crap I do. So mainly XP
I'll investigate the ram tonyte in a few hours after I finish work. Will I need to use an official set of drivers to get AMD GPU tool working correctly or could it have been because I tried clocking the card automatically which in turn would have let the card go over 857mhz core?
I think it may just be the core issue that put me off the AMD GPU tool but I shall investigate the ram later.

Fingers crossed for a good set Plus very pleased I went for the DDR3 over the DDR4, not worth the extra imo

 

[JRodgA2k7]

Just checked my ram
Its actually not Samsung branded its only that of Qimonda which does a max of 1Ghz! When running AMD GPU Tool the artifacts began around 890Mhz so I've pretty much hit the limit on my card im thinking. Pretty disappointed but im getting good performance from my clock as you can see

 

[Paradox]

your memory needs more voltage.

 

[pt]

Just checked my ram
Its actually not Samsung branded its only that of Qimonda which does a max of 1Ghz! When running AMD GPU Tool the artifacts began around 890Mhz so I've pretty much hit the limit on my card im thinking. Pretty disappointed but im getting good performance from my clock as you can see

mine are quimonda rated to 1ghz and are sitting happily at 1017mhz
you sure it isn't the heat or something else»

 

[JRodgA2k7]

Only temp I have is the core temp which is sitting @ 40idle now since I applied Arctic Silver 5 and around 58 load. Might just be a bad batch but again is there any tool to increase the voltage of these cards? And what would be a safe level?

 

[Paradox]

Hmm, is it just me or are these cards little long?

 

[Urbklr]

Yea there 9 inches! The GDDR3's are like the size of my x800. GDDR4's are more like 60 dollars more and 3 inches longer for little performance increase......but i hate short cards......makes it look to budget minded for me

 

[JRodgA2k7]

Score update

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2655071

3DMark Score 5168 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 1821 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 2216 Marks
CPU Score 2393 Marks

Albeit my CPU is clocked lower @ 2.74Ghz as I am still trying to get my system completely stable. I cant believe some of you guys arent using the 7.8 beta drivers they are superb

Anyways that was just a core of 845Mhz and 850Mhz ram!

Oh and the DDR3 card is tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny lol!

 

[Urbklr]

I would use the 7.8's......but dialup limits my downloading ability

 

[JRodgA2k7]

Update further ;P

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2656236

3DMark Score 5199 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 1829 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 2226 Marks
CPU Score 2437 Marks

CPU now @ 2.79GHz 2600XT@ 850mhz core and 850mem

 

[pt]

updated
post your results also here:

gddr3 cards - http://www.hwbot.org/quickSearch.do?hardwareId=GPU_1194
gddr4 cards - http://www.hwbot.org/quickSearch.do?hardwareId=GPU_1144