HUGE!!! FPS gain with ATI TOOL version 0.0.23

[Alan Freeman]

I downloaded a ATI overclocking tool and overclocked my card to 540/456. It came stock at 475/450 . when i ran the counter strike video stress test before i overclocked the card i got around 90 fps now i get this!!!

http://img169.exs.cx/img169/8485/fps111403ar.jpg

111.40 - 115.00 FPS isn't it great

and everything seems to be stable

but for some reason when i try to find my max memory it tops out at 456 speed Ohh Well ,here is a link to the ATI TOOL Program

http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

Good Luck

 

[Ranga]

does it work for nvidia? *realises it is futile* grrr....

 

[Killing2Live]

Cool, just dont push it too much, I'm sure you dont that card dying on you :E

 

[Death.Trap]

111.40 - 115.00 FPS isn't it great



http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

Good Luck

I....hate....you...so..much...right...now...omg.....

 

[poseyjmac]

nice fps gain from overclocking. ive found 'ati tray tools 1.0' to be superior to ati tool though. a kajillion features including refresh rate lock and many overclocking options, and profiles for everything.

 

[NikolaX]

nice fps gain from overclocking. ive found 'ati tray tools 1.0' to be superior to ati tool though. a kajillion features including refresh rate lock and many overclocking options, and profiles for everything.

Thanx for the tool, it is great

 

[the_lone_wolf]

ok, i have a 9600 series (see sig) and i know it's the bottleneck of my system, i'd like to overclock however i have no experience of OCing and don't want to fry my board (although t'would be a great excuse to blow the student loan on something faster)

when this program says "Artifact Tester with ability to find maximum stable clocks for GPU and Memory" will this safely find the max speeds without knowing the GPU temp or fan speed (neither of which i think the 9600 supports) without harming my card?

 

[bryanf445]

it should keep it at a level that is stable...but if you want to be safe find the maxes,then lower it down like 5 mhz

 

[the_lone_wolf]

it should keep it at a level that is stable...but if you want to be safe find the maxes,then lower it down like 5 mhz

thanks for that, i tried it out on the CS stress test and i gained 5fps average but only about 2 on the most stressful part (the spinning mirrors at the start), plus i didnt see a difference in HL2 at all, so i figure it's not worth it, i might as well buy a better card when i have the money and make this one last as long as possible

 

[furiousV]

yo freeman, what kind of cooler you using? and u got any additional memory cooling?

i got the Arctic cooler rev 3, and a bit of a bad experience

i asked teh guys at PC world if it would fit on my radeon 9550 and they said it would (why was i in pc world you ask? well, i needed to buy a DVD rom drive to play HL2)
when i finally got round to putting on the new heatsink fan thingy, well, purple lines and all went through my screen. oh shit. took off the heatsink, and its now a nice shiny black as opposed to the nice shiny silver it had before. it turns out that a capacitor is in the way of allowing it to fit on perfectly parrallel to the GPU/heatsink surface. argh.

well now i got a radeon 9800 pro (128mb, the 9550 was 256mb) and runs hl2 and cs source good enough, and the heatsink looks ok, better than the other cheap ones ati have.

i havent attached the arctic cooler yet, im a littl etoo afraid
and the heatsink surface looks a little chipped or scratched, but im probably makign a fuss out of nothing. i still got a little heat compound left.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=41
http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9800proatl.asp

 

[frusion]

if all these boosters would be for nvidia ati would still get owned by far

 

[[w0f]Oblivion]

Yeah, I get 90 when im not overclocked
round 133 when im fully overclocked...
radeon9800pro ;-)

 

[Axyon]

My Asus x800 Pro overclocks from standard clocks (475/450) to 525/542, and I haven't even fully tweaked the memory yet (core is maxed, though) - and this is on the stock Asus fan. Lovely stuff.

 

[J_Tweedy]

dont suppose anyone would know how far i could push my gigabyte 6800gt on stock cooling?
its got a giant heatsink on it, but the fan's pretty small. The difference between idle temp and temp under load is only like 5 degrees C.

 

[Alan Freeman]

yo freeman, what kind of cooler you using? and u got any additional memory cooling?

i got the Arctic cooler rev 3, and a bit of a bad experience

i asked teh guys at PC world if it would fit on my radeon 9550 and they said it would (why was i in pc world you ask? well, i needed to buy a DVD rom drive to play HL2)
when i finally got round to putting on the new heatsink fan thingy, well, purple lines and all went through my screen. oh shit. took off the heatsink, and its now a nice shiny black as opposed to the nice shiny silver it had before. it turns out that a capacitor is in the way of allowing it to fit on perfectly parrallel to the GPU/heatsink surface. argh.

well now i got a radeon 9800 pro (128mb, the 9550 was 256mb) and runs hl2 and cs source good enough, and the heatsink looks ok, better than the other cheap ones ati have.

i havent attached the arctic cooler yet, im a littl etoo afraid
and the heatsink surface looks a little chipped or scratched, but im probably makign a fuss out of nothing. i still got a little heat compound left.

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=41
http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9800proatl.asp

No cooler just heat spreaders on the memory .

 

[Alan Freeman]

My Asus x800 Pro overclocks from standard clocks (475/450) to 525/542, and I haven't even fully tweaked the memory yet (core is maxed, though) - and this is on the stock Asus fan. Lovely stuff.

Isn't it grand.

 

[Alan Freeman]

Wow i just ran it agian and Got 119.70 FPS i just tweaked the memory from 456 to 500.9 and gained 10 fps on stress test im not sure if i want to go any higher than this.