Cooling to RAM on radeon8500le?

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Hello
Seeing this post with mentioning ATITOOL, i tried it out.
It checked my 3dProphet8500LE card (64mb) from hercules, and it overclocked
the core from 250 to 302MHz, stable! and with NO artifacts !
However, the ram could not be clocked over 258MHz, without artifacts.

Is there any way i can add CHEAP but effective cooling to rams? I do have a
lot of older cpu-coolers laying around.. maybe use them?
 
Asestar said:
Hello
Seeing this post with mentioning ATITOOL, i tried it out.
It checked my 3dProphet8500LE card (64mb) from hercules, and it overclocked
the core from 250 to 302MHz, stable! and with NO artifacts !
However, the ram could not be clocked over 258MHz, without artifacts.

Is there any way i can add CHEAP but effective cooling to rams? I do have a
lot of older cpu-coolers laying around.. maybe use them?
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Well you can saw those cpu coolers up in nice cooling blocks and put
them on with some special thermal glue for electronic equipment :-)

Artic Silver based glue or alike!

Copper cools of course better as aluminium
 
I believe that the Herc 8500le is fitted with 4ns ram meaning that you won't
be able to go much above the rated 250 MHz anyway. I can remember reading
the reviews before I bought mine and they mentioned that the speed of the
RAM chips really is a limiting factor.

Glenn
 
Hmm... Interesting point Glenn. I also know that there are 4ns rams. But I
was calculating the max speed wrong!
1sec/0.004 =250MHz x 2(since ddr) = 500MHz..

Apperently i was trying to match my old Gainward Gf2 pro, ram speed was
indicated 450MHz, So I was trying to puch my rams another 50-100MHz to get
around 350-400MHz ;)


BUT I know now where I went wrong, with ddr! 250MHz current speed means
already 500MHz effective speed, right?
 
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