Hi,
I'm pretty new to this forum, but I do use ATITool. I just purchased a Sapphire X800GTO. I've been trying to learn how to overclock it, but I don't understand the results that I'm seeing.
For one this, the level to which I can overclock the GPU core, seems to depend on the current clock rate of my memroy. I believe my memory is the 2.0ns Samsung type. I don't have the GTO2. Do these results make sense to anyone?
Also, I am able to run at 434RAM/534GPU in ATITool... stable. Not great, but not bad either. I can even run an artifact scan for over 10 minutes. I'm running an Arctic Cooling Silencer 5, so I don't have any heat issues. I think the card gets as hot as 46C, maximum.
After overclocking to the afore mentioned levels, I decided to try F.E.A.R. out. The results on the F.E.A.R. test show a 25% improvement in the range of 0-25fps, and 4% improvement in the >40fps range, with 21% imrpovement in the 26-39fps range. Essentially the distribution was right shifted towards the 40fps mark.
However, visually something doesn't look right. I can seen tonnes of Artifacts everywhere. Little flasshy dots, Army Men that flicker and half disappear.... generally the picture sucks !
So I'm just wondering why these issues were not picked up in ATITool. I am using the Catalyst 5.11 drivers. I even tried running the game with Alternate Pixel Center enabled.
Does anyone here have any ideas as to what setting I must be getting wrong when I play the game. I'm all out if ideas. Hoefully some of ther gurus over here can help me out .
I'm pretty new to this forum, but I do use ATITool. I just purchased a Sapphire X800GTO. I've been trying to learn how to overclock it, but I don't understand the results that I'm seeing.
For one this, the level to which I can overclock the GPU core, seems to depend on the current clock rate of my memroy. I believe my memory is the 2.0ns Samsung type. I don't have the GTO2. Do these results make sense to anyone?
Also, I am able to run at 434RAM/534GPU in ATITool... stable. Not great, but not bad either. I can even run an artifact scan for over 10 minutes. I'm running an Arctic Cooling Silencer 5, so I don't have any heat issues. I think the card gets as hot as 46C, maximum.
After overclocking to the afore mentioned levels, I decided to try F.E.A.R. out. The results on the F.E.A.R. test show a 25% improvement in the range of 0-25fps, and 4% improvement in the >40fps range, with 21% imrpovement in the 26-39fps range. Essentially the distribution was right shifted towards the 40fps mark.
However, visually something doesn't look right. I can seen tonnes of Artifacts everywhere. Little flasshy dots, Army Men that flicker and half disappear.... generally the picture sucks !
So I'm just wondering why these issues were not picked up in ATITool. I am using the Catalyst 5.11 drivers. I even tried running the game with Alternate Pixel Center enabled.
Does anyone here have any ideas as to what setting I must be getting wrong when I play the game. I'm all out if ideas. Hoefully some of ther gurus over here can help me out .
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