HD 2900 Series Overclocking and Feedback thread

Wile E · Sep 22, 2007

So wait, are you now off of water cooling, and going to air, or are you just using the sinks that came with the HR-03?

EastCoasthandle · Sep 22, 2007

Wile E said:
So wait, are you now off of water cooling, and going to air, or are you just using the sinks that came with the HR-03?

Just using the sinks that came off the HR-03. As there is no pwm sinks to date.
And I have to admit this is working very well. Whenever I moved any popup screen (take firefox for example) it would "trail" or ghost whenever I moved it. That is no longer happening.

Wile E · Sep 22, 2007

EastCoasthandle said:
Just using the sinks that came off the HR-03. As there is no pwm sinks to date.
And I have to admit this is working very well. Whenever I moved any popup screen (take firefox for example) it would "trail" or ghost whenever I moved it. That is no longer happening.

What do you plan to do with the heatsink itself? That was an awfully pricey way to get some sinks. lol

EastCoasthandle · Sep 22, 2007

Wile E said:
What do you plan to do with the heatsink itself? That was an awfully pricey way to get some sinks. lol

Unfortunately, it was a heavy price to get the proper cooling for the mosfets for the R600. It's a shame that no one thought of actually creating these type of heatsinks and sell them separately.

Wile E · Sep 22, 2007

EastCoasthandle said:
Unfortunately, it was a heavy price to get the proper cooling for the mosfets for the R600. It's a shame that no one thought of actually creating these type of heatsinks and sell them separately.

So, after you add the cost of the HR-03 and the Maze4 (or 5), might the full coverage DD block be a better solution to someone that doesn't already have a gpu block laying around?

Also, what about some standard sinks and thermal tape instead? Viable?

EastCoasthandle · Sep 22, 2007

Wile E said:
So, after you add the cost of the HR-03 and the Maze4 (or 5), might the full coverage DD block be a better solution to someone that doesn't already have a gpu block laying around?

Cost wise I still paid less

Wile E said:
Also, what about some standard sinks and thermal tape instead? Viable?

Not viable as there is not enough contact area for double adhesive tape to adhere properly to. I've tried and it didn't work for me. That's why the clips on the ends are provided. Also, the unique design of the right memory ram sink, AKA "arm" allows for contact to the other compounds. If it was a separate heat sink there wouldn't be enough contact area IMO when it's upside down. Now I am talking about cooling the mosfets from my own experience here, results will vary.

Side note:
Here is the price for the full cover DD block and the maze5 or EK block. The cost of the HR-03/R600 (already mentioned earlier) along with the water block will be much less then a full cover water block. However, this is more a unique setup. For starters, you must already be water cooling, in some cases already own a decent wb for your video card, etc before this is a viable option. But for demonstration purposes, those 2 items are still cheaper then the full cover block.

EastCoasthandle · Sep 24, 2007

anyone else tried this yet?

EastCoasthandle · Sep 24, 2007

I found some interesting information about OC the mem. Seems that mem speeds of 714, 833 909 & 1000 (909 and 1000 needs some kind of active cooling) work best for the HD 2900XT

yogurt_21 · Sep 25, 2007

or really 1mhz shy of those numbers then thus 999 being the highest you can go without going to the loosest timings

EastCoasthandle · Sep 25, 2007

HD 2900 XT at 890/833

SM 2.0 Score 5362 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 6025 Marks

HD 2900 XT at 890/909
SM 2.0 Score 5414 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 6109 Marks

Laserline · Sep 25, 2007

You have a 29800XT? Christ.

binormalkilla · Sep 25, 2007

Well stay away from the HR-03 from Thermalright as I got a poorly threaded screw, which lead to poor contact with the GPU and I'm now waiting for my RMA to return......the GPU FRIED :eek:

while I was in the BIOS!

Anyhow, on my HIS 2900xt 1Gb I was running 843/1100 in Overdrive with Vista x64. When I get my new card I'll be sure to post my results here.

EastCoasthandle · Sep 25, 2007

binormalkilla said:
Well stay away from the HR-03 from Thermalright as I got a poorly threaded screw, which lead to poor contact with the GPU and I'm now waiting for my RMA to return......the GPU FRIED while I was in the BIOS!

Anyhow, on my HIS 2900xt 1Gb I was running 843/1100 in Overdrive with Vista x64. When I get my new card I'll be sure to post my results here.

I will keep that in mind.
New card?

mandelore · Sep 25, 2007

talking about the loosining of the timings, is there just the one set of "loosened timings" after x memory clock? since i cant actually read my mem timings atm.

just wondering if the mem timing relaxation will be the same @ 2300MHz as for 2500 or wotever, if damn atitool would work i could prevent the timings getting buggered with

binormalkilla · Sep 27, 2007

EastCoasthandle said:
I will keep that in mind.
New card?

Well I actually had the card for a little over a month.

binormalkilla · Sep 28, 2007

I got the Diamond 1Gb today and I have it OCed to 843/2200 so far, and it's stable for about an hour in Crysis beta.....longest that I've played it so far. I'm reseating with AS5 tomorrow to lower temps...maybe I can go higher. I locked up in a menu at 858. I probably need more VCOre rather than lower temps though.
What is the highest core that the 1Gb owners have reached stable?
I can't wait for ATI Tool to support voltage adjustments on the 1Gb cards......

Wile E · Sep 28, 2007

Looky what I found:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102707

mandelore · Sep 28, 2007

Wile E said:
Looky what I found:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102707

yeah seent hat a while back on overclockers.co.uk, not bad at all

mandelore · Sep 28, 2007

binormalkilla said:
I got the Diamond 1Gb today and I have it OCed to 843/2200 so far, and it's stable for about an hour in Crysis beta.....longest that I've played it so far. I'm reseating with AS5 tomorrow to lower temps...maybe I can go higher. I locked up in a menu at 858. I probably need more VCOre rather than lower temps though.
What is the highest core that the 1Gb owners have reached stable?
I can't wait for ATI Tool to support voltage adjustments on the 1Gb cards......

i have went up to 900MHz core and 2500 memory, but, like the 512MB version, memory timings get relaxed at specific mem frequencies. im trying to find out what they are for the 1gb gddr4 version.

but 900 core @ 52C max under load, tho some games dont break 48C, Gmod appears to heat it up the most for some reason

I have found that 1143 memory actually gives a better score in 3dmark than 1250

binormalkilla · Sep 29, 2007

mandelore said:
i have went up to 900MHz core and 2500 memory, but, like the 512MB version, memory timings get relaxed at specific mem frequencies. im trying to find out what they are for the 1gb gddr4 version.

but 900 core @ 52C max under load, tho some games dont break 48C, Gmod appears to heat it up the most for some reason

I have found that 1143 memory actually gives a better score in 3dmark than 1250

What application are you OCing with? Operating system? THat's one badass OC man....I'm jealous. I got a driver lockup at 2200 today, but last night I could play all night. Well I'm thinking that the memory is getting too hot on the back, so I'm going to put a fan on it or something.....

binormalkilla · Sep 30, 2007

Well I discovered that the backplate has two screw holes that fit an 80mm case fan perfectly....I slapped on one there to cool the core and the memory. It gets really hot back there....

DaMulta · Sep 30, 2007

binormalkilla said:
Well I discovered that the backplate has two screw holes that fit an 80mm case fan perfectly....I slapped on one there to cool the core and the memory. It gets really hot back there....

pic?

binormalkilla · Sep 30, 2007

I'll have one tomorrow. I used motherboard risers to raise the fan a little. Man this mod is sooooo easy and works like a charm. Keeps the memory a lot cooler.....it was really hot to the touch. Now it's barely warm.

binormalkilla · Oct 3, 2007

All right here is my case fan mod for the backplate.
Sorry about the poor picture quality. It was taken with a camera phone.

Wile E · Oct 3, 2007

binormalkilla said:
All right here is my case fan mod for the backplate.
Sorry about the poor picture quality. It was taken with a camera phone.

http://www.overclock.net/attachments/ati/57203d1191377473-hd-2900xt-info-thread-gpu-fan-1.jpg

http://www.overclock.net/attachments/ati/57204d1191377473-hd-2900xt-info-thread-pci-e-area.jpg

http://www.overclock.net/attachments/ati/57205d1191377473-hd-2900xt-info-thread-screw-mount.jpg

Sheer genius.

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