ShadowFlare
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| Processor | Athlon 64 Venice 3200+ 2.0 GHz, max 2.6 GHz with Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu |
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| Motherboard | EpoX 9NPA+Ultra nForce4 Ultra with Zalman ZM-NB47J |
| Cooling | All Zalman heatsinks (CNPS7000B-AlCu, ZM-NB47J, VF700-Cu) |
| Memory | 1 GB (2x512 MB) DDR400 Corsair XMS C2 series, max 233 MHz @ 2-3-2-9 1T |
| Video Card(s) | Sapphire Radeon X800GTO2 256 MB PCIe max 540/600, modded to 16 pipes |
| Storage | Seagate 80GB SATA, Maxtor 160GB PATA, Maxtor 200GB PATA |
| Display(s) | Dell 17" Trinitron CRT |
| Case | Lian Li PC-60B Plus |
| Audio Device(s) | Built-in Realtek chip |
| Power Supply | Enermax Noisetaker EG495AX-VE, 485 watts, active PFC |
| Software | Windows XP Pro SP2, Windows XP Pro x64, Windows Vista RC1 32-bit |
Three days ago I installed a Zalman VF700-Cu on my Sapphire X800 GTO2. Before installing the Zalman VF700-Cu, the GPU was mostly stable at 540 and wouldn't crash until reaching at least around 560. After installing the Zalman VF700-Cu (with Arctic Silver Ceramique) the GPU will crash on artifact scanning in ATITool as it approaches 530, despite having a lower GPU temperature. My max memory overclock did go up a little, though. I left the existing heatspreader installed and I'm only using half of the ramsinks for now and thinking of possibly putting the rest of them on the heatspreader (http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=8010).
Any ideas on what could have gone wrong such that the temperatue is shown lower, but the max GPU overclock would go down?
Any ideas on what could have gone wrong such that the temperatue is shown lower, but the max GPU overclock would go down?
