ATI Agrees To Let Its Partners Overclock

Mathew Everett 13 Mar, 2006 at 12:29pm ET Article published in Tech

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   13 Mar 2006 ~ 1:12pm airbornflght ok...not that I couldnt do it myself, I believe that anyone that wants an overclocked card will take it much further than the stock oc from the manufactures.
   
   Other people, just dont care about oc'ing, in my mind.
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   13 Mar 2006 ~ 3:00pm Sledgehammer70 Well this is a good thing for some if they don't want to void there warranties and still have OC'ing action.... AS most pre-OC'ed cards can't go much further in most cases.
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   13 Mar 2006 ~ 3:07pm Garg As long as it's overclocked by software, they'd never be able to tell that we've voided the warranty. I just see this as another way that buying a graphics card will get more confusing. Perhaps this will enourage more uniform clock frequency reporting, though.
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   13 Mar 2006 ~ 4:00pm jradmin

   Sledgehammer70 wrote:

   Well this is a good thing for some if they don't want to void there warranties and still have OC'ing action.... AS most pre-OC'ed cards can't go much further in most cases.

   
   
   Eh. I wouldn't necessarly say that. Most of the pre-OC'd cards are only OC'd by maybe 50-75mhz. Heck, I have both of my 7800 GTX's running on stock cooling 200mhz above the default clock on GPU and 100mhz on the GDDR3 side. I guess its ok if you wanna pay an extra $50 for a 50mhz OC...but at $1 per MHZ I'l continue to do my own.
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   13 Mar 2006 ~ 4:05pm Sledgehammer70

   Sledgehammer70 wrote:

   in most cases.

   I mean't by stock cooling, If you getting 200Mhz out of your 7800's with stock cooling I would be aww shocked...If it held with no artifacting.. but any which way I would love to see and read about how you are OC'ing those bad boys http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43542
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   13 Mar 2006 ~ 4:34pm jradmin Coolbits II
   
   My cards came in stock at 500mhz/1200mhz. It's not quite 200mhz on the GPU side. 678/1300 with no artifacting. The funny thing is that anything under that to 575 on the GPU was artifacting with GDDR3 set from 1275-1300. My computer room stays a constant 68F and I do regular cleaning of the HSF every 3 weeks. They run around 68-73C at full load (EQ2 on extreme quality). I could probably push them a tad higher if I had water cooling, but they have been running at this speed since the cards were released, and I'm really afraid to push them any harder without getting a blowout.