What's a "good" overclock for a 9600XT?

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I just got this from a friend of mine. It's 128mb and it made by GeCube. I
just installed the 5.3 Catalyst drivers and ATI Tool.

What would be a good overclocking for this card. I'm not looking to push
the card to it's limits, but I would like a performance increase without any
artifacts, etc.

Thanks.
 
work it out in percentage terms, that way you get a better idea, i've always
tried to aim at 15% + improvement, otherwise its not really worth in it, in
my estimation
 
Flippin' Sweet said:
I just got this from a friend of mine. It's 128mb and it made by GeCube.
I just installed the 5.3 Catalyst drivers and ATI Tool.

What would be a good overclocking for this card. I'm not looking to push
the card to it's limits, but I would like a performance increase without
any artifacts, etc.

Thanks.
My last card was an ATI 9600xt. Could get the core to overclock to about
528 and the memory to about 303. If you read reviews for this card they for
the most part say this card is clocked pretty high out of the box.
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I just got this from a friend of mine. It's 128mb and it made by GeCube.
I
just installed the 5.3 Catalyst drivers and ATI Tool.

What would be a good overclocking for this card. I'm not looking to push
the card to it's limits, but I would like a performance increase without any
artifacts, etc.
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My 256 MB Sapphire 9600 XT will run up to 525/325 safely, no more. Stock
cooling though. Couldn't be bothered to replace that yet.
 
Flippin' Sweet wrote:
Flippin' Sweet said:
I just got this from a friend of mine. It's 128mb and it made by GeCube. I
just installed the 5.3 Catalyst drivers and ATI Tool.

What would be a good overclocking for this card. I'm not looking to push
the card to it's limits, but I would like a performance increase without any
artifacts, etc.

Thanks.
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I just got this from a friend of mine. It's 128mb and it made by GeCube. I
just installed the 5.3 Catalyst drivers and ATI Tool.

What would be a good overclocking for this card. I'm not looking to push
the card to it's limits, but I would like a performance increase without any
artifacts, etc.

Thanks.
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I have clocked my core upto 542Mhz with ATITool - not sure if it could
go further. I have tried overclocking the memory (hynix 3.3ns) but it
does not seem to like it. Even at just a 3Mhz overclock - with Overdrive
enabled it can start artifacting (checkerboard on the screen).

My temperatures at stock are about 40 deg cel idle and 65 under load
which I think are a bit high for a 9600XT so im not wanting to overclock
the core until I sort out a better cooling solution.

With a 42Mhz increase on the Core my 3dmark03 score went from 3800 to
about 3940 so not a huge increase.
 
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