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Memory clock rate under stock?WTF?

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binormalkilla

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hey guys, I own an ATI Sapphire Radeon X1300XT, and under the Sapphire website, they have the specs for my card listed as the core clock: 500MHz, and the effective memory clock as: 1000MHZ. Well, my card shows under Rivatuner hardware manager as the effective memory clock as 783 MHz, and when I OC the memory (barely) I can get it to 800MHz, still way below stock. Anyone have any ideas? The card isn't overheating or anything, so I'm confused!!! Please help!
 
i think your just confused use ati tool if it shows your mem speed at 500 then your good if it shows under then u have a problem and should return the card
 
binormalkilla said:
hey guys, I own an ATI Sapphire Radeon X1300XT, and under the Sapphire website, they have the specs for my card listed as the core clock: 500MHz, and the effective memory clock as: 1000MHZ. Well, my card shows under Rivatuner hardware manager as the effective memory clock as 783 MHz, and when I OC the memory (barely) I can get it to 800MHz, still way below stock. Anyone have any ideas? The card isn't overheating or anything, so I'm confused!!! Please help!
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That is your 2D clock speed. :rolleyes:
 
So, which version should I use, as the reason that I use Rivatuner is that it allows me to monitor the temp. I was using the beta 16 pre5 build of ATItool and it didn't show temp.
 
Ok, installed beta 16 pre5 again, and yep it says that my memory clock rate is at an unhealthy 400.5 MHz. I bought it from Newegg.com, recieved it like a week or two ago, so is it fairly painless to RMA from them?
 
i've RMA'd quite a bit thro newegg and they handle thing swiftly too!!!! just go to the customer support and enter your email and password and it will show you what you've bought. just click on your card and start the process. PAY CLOSE ATTN. TO CORRESPONDING EMAIL do exactly as they say or you may find yourself in RMA limbo.......good luck
 
Thanks, I really hope that I don't have to....I'm going to speak to ATI tech support tomorrow about this issue, but oh well...
 
found something interesting lookin on newegg..... there are 3 models of the 1300xt and they all have diffrent clocks the first 2 are 256 cards and have core and mem clocks as follows 1 is 450/500 and the other 256 is set at 600/800 there is also a 512 versoin with clocks of 450/500 so here is my thought go look on newegg and look ur card up by its part number and see exactly which card u have the info from ATI or SAPPHIRE i've found to be sorta general or respective to the flagship version of it!!!!!!!!


hope this helps
 
its all good i see now....oh well I'm getting a new fan and memory sinks, so we'll just see about that! I'm already at 423 MHz totally stable, so I'll be there in no time! Thanks dude!
 
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