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ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 128mb Overclocked! check this out plz

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slugzkea

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Processor e8400@4Ghz
Motherboard Asus Rampage Formula Bios 0902
Cooling Corsair H50 w/TriCool AS5
Memory Mushkin XP2-8500 4gb +Patriot Viper Fin 9600 2gb (6gb total)
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I've been reading a lot on this forum, mainly on the threads focused on the RV350 chips and so i did a little experimenting. I'm currently using the new omega drivers based on the catalyst 5.6 (which comes with overclocking settings). I used ATItool before that. At first, i was able to get my GPU clocked from 325mhz (defeault) to 399mhz, and my memory from 199mhz (defrault) to 250mhz without a fan, just the stock heatsink.
Now with a casing fan attached (a little off centre, but it still does the job lol), the core is at 413mhz, and memory 270mhz.

My goal is to save up money and get one of those kooling kits from thermaltake so i can hopefully reach a corespeed of 450-500mhz. I mainly want my card to run like an XT.

Any ideas, Does anyone think it can actuall reach that potential with a proper kooling kit? which kit should i buy? the ATI silencer 4?

input! input! please :D
 
ati silencer is better than the thermaltake stuff. you can probably get close to the 500mhz core on stock cooler.
 
Dippyskoodlez said:
ati silencer is better than the thermaltake stuff. you can probably get close to the 500mhz core on stock cooler.
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Stock cooler? the only Stock cooling was the crappy heatsink.
 
slugzkea said:
Stock cooler? the only Stock cooling was the crappy heatsink.
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9600xt's run stock heatsink too.. its quite skimpy and I still managed to overclock it a fair bit. just watch your temps :) You'll be amazed at how well you can clock it on the coolers that come with em.
 
From the board shots i've seen of the XT's, there's a much bigger silver heatsink and a fan attached to them. Mine is the 9600NP, a small black heatsink...thats all.
The highest right now that i can clock my gpu is 413mhz. Anything higher shows artifacts.
also, how would i check my gpu's temp?
 
Okay i installed the thermaltake Giant III and so far, not that much of an increase compared to stock cooling...
max i could get without artifacts is core: 415mhz, mem: 275mhz
Suggestions!??!
 
slugzkea said:
Okay i installed the thermaltake Giant III and so far, not that much of an increase compared to stock cooling...
max i could get without artifacts is core: 415mhz, mem: 275mhz
Suggestions!??!
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Did you try some benchmark before at least to see the difference oc or not oc ?
That's help a lot and it,s fun too ,but don't burn your card trying too much oc. ;) 9600Xt owner oc a bit .
 
I have benchmarked, 3dmark2001 at stock settings was around 7000-9000 scoring, depending on what drivers i used. Now, this is what i currently get:
Specs:
CPU: P4 Prescott 520 2.8ghz OC'ed to 3.51mhz
CPU Cooling: Thermaltake Silent 775
Mobo: Asus P5P800
RAM: 512x2 Kingston value ram PC3200 DDR400mhz Max core 200mhz, currently declocked to 320mhz DDR to compensate for the high FSB setting of the OC'ed PCU (250), voltage at 2.75
Graphics Card: ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600 128mb, AGP/PCI frequency 66mhz, apeture size 256mb, AGP VDDQ Voltage 1.7
Graphics Card Cooling: Successfully installed a Thermaltake Giant III Extreme VGA Cooler.
MAX GPU CORE: 410mhz
MAX GPU MEM: 300mhz (600mhz DDR)
3Dmark2001: 12000's using Omega Drivers

So what do you guys think? I think i can't get the core as high because i wasn't able to clean the RV350 chip that well..i was still a bit sticky when i added the thermal compound to it.

Any ideas? not bad for an all in wonder eh? :)
 
Really good ,happy to hear that :D ,keep it that way ,my 9600xt depend on drivers , results are a bit different ,last results 12,221 a little less but games run smoother and nicer, i use NGO for now ,another day a gonna change for other drivers and test again and again .And very often i just do the setup no uninstall and it works well . ;)Agp aperture size 128 with 512 ddr it s ok for me .Test it and let us know , :D
 
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I just switched to softmod drivers and i can't even get into cs:s! memory read errors! so i declocked and declocked and declocked to the point where i have to admit that the omega drivers are much better.
Any suggestions on what other drivers i should try?
Softmod Cat5.7 seems to be no good for OCing on my AIW...artifacts artifacts...also, i found i got less artifacts when my AGP/PCI bus was at 77 instead of 33mhz...
any advice?
 
Be carefull with overclock ,my old Radeon7550 64 drr lost 32megs trying all kind of oc ,when you overclock your system i think AGP/PCI bus goes up too and if you put 77 in the same time i' m sure it s too much ,maybe yes maybe no but one thing i know my 7500 get hurt lolll. I run 68 max 1.6 v that concern me naturelly ,but the best way like i say play with drivers , bench it and play your games like that you know exactly wich ones good for you and your PC .Don t push to hard ;)
 
warluck said:
Be carefull with overclock ,my old Radeon7550 64 drr lost 32megs trying all kind of oc ,when you overclock your system i think AGP/PCI bus goes up too and if you put 77 in the same time i' m sure it s too much ,maybe yes maybe no but one thing i know my 7500 get hurt lolll. I run 68 max 1.6 v that concern me naturelly ,but the best way like i say play with drivers , bench it and play your games like that you know exactly wich ones good for you and your PC .Don t push to hard ;)
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1.6v is a lot... is that agp? then thats normal..

overclocking the FSB on some chipsets will, if improperly set, run your AGP/PCI bus out of spec (or pci-E), which will probably cause more hard drive corruption before it will do anything to your video card. My 9600xt ran all the way up to well above 88mhz AGP, and thats 267fsb using the 200fsb divider... my hdd crapped out first.

Changing agp voltage will result in no voltage change except the signal transfer voltage, which is not currently the bottleneck in most systems.

On some p4 boards however, I think it increased a different voltage along with it, so it does help in *that* case.
 
Hi , i just try different settings to see how much high cpu ,memory , gpu etc. can go ,(stable and safe ), i run my pc non oc , 1.6v and 68mhz agp/pci run find .I had enough trouble with my PSU now the new one perfect ,.Overclocking its good when you don t need to buy Fans ,Coolers super Power supply etc. that become expensive , better change for more powerfull stuff. Except for a small range of video card when your lucky.My opinion .But sure it s fun to play with different settings . :D
 
Okay after vooling around with some settings this is where my aiw stands right now:
VDDQ Voltage: 1.5v
Core: 415mhz
Mem: 280mhz
Drivers: Omega Drivers based on cat5.6
Giant III Fan Speed: Low.

Performance is quite nice, however i still want my RV350 Core to run at at least 430mhz.
A friend told me to use better thermal paste.

Which thermal paste shall i use?
 
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