GeForce FX 5200 OC questions!!

JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
edited October 2003 in Hardware
Ok, im kinda new in these here parts (im usually on the gamefaqs.com message boards) and i just wanted to ask you guys if its possible to get any more juice out of my GeForce FX 5200 non-ultra (its a BFG Aylum card)

so far i have gotten to

GPU
Before: 250mhz
Now: 350 Mhz

Memory
Before: 400mhz
Now: 450mhz

it runs stable with no artifacts

is there any softmods or inexpensive Cooling Solutions (cooling helps out alot right?) or any tips at all in getting it alittle faster?

oh one more question, is there any softmods i could get to enable 8 pipelines instead of only 4????

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  • seversphereseversphere
    edited October 2003
    ramsinks then a volt mod

    ramsinks you can buy and do a search in google for volt mod guides.


    I hate you too :)
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited October 2003
    Are Volt mods easy? is there a big chance of damaging my card?

    thanks....

    you hate me too?! :(
  • seversphereseversphere
    edited October 2003
    volt mods consist of putting a resistor between a certain point and ground and that lets you increase the volts. Using an adjustable potentiometer gives you control when you aren't sure of the specific ohms needed for the resistor.

    the 5200 isn't the top of the line card so most vmods focus on the high end cards. Might just be able to adapt them to the 5200 if there is a similar vreg chip.

    Read thru here to get the idea.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited October 2003
    Whats a Vreg chip?
  • seversphereseversphere
    edited October 2003
    voltage regulator - volt mods are performed on motherboards as well. Read some motherboard guides to get the idea also - it's all the same thing. Just have to find the right chip and pin of that chip to mod on your vid card.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited October 2003
    god... it sounds all difficult and hard and complicated....

    -_-;

    any guides out there? that forum seemed to have mostly Radeon users... not any GF FX users
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    I wouldn't risk a voltmod. Is the FX5200 a flipchip or what? If it is, then a good place to start would be just upgrading the heatsink to a lapped 1u rackmount unit. If it's not, replacing the heatsink with a 1u rackmount one is still the way to go, however I'd suggest lapping the heatsink and then the GPU itself first. non-FC chips always seem to be concave, especially nvidia's stuff...
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited October 2003
    no, its not a flipchip, its just normal

    can you give me some links to this rackmount heatsink/fan??

    thx for you help!!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    well, actually... if you don't plan on using 3 or 4 pci slots under your video card, you could just use a regular HSF...

    Anyhow, there are a bunch of rackmount heatsinks that may work. (btw, can you take some pix of the card, because I can't find any and it's easier for me to recommend stuff if I can see what it's going on...)

    http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProduct.asp?description=35-106-015&depa=1

    http://www.nexfan.com/evp4so478low.html

    http://www.nexfan.com/aoclowpr1ura.html (this is the one I've got on my R8500... it's OK, but there are probably better heatsinks around...)

    http://www.nexfan.com/th1uramocofc.html

    http://www.nexfan.com/evcuallcocof.html

    http://www.plycon.com/cpuc/an_pal14.htm

    http://www.plycon.com/cpuc/an_pal15.htm

    http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?src=PW&item=34505

    http://www.1coolpc.com/jag.htm

    If you want something that should be dead easy to fit, get a Coolermaster DP5-5G11A, which is what I have on the northbridge of my NF7-S (I upgraded the fan tho). If you get a piece of steel from a hardware store, it's dead easy to make your own clip that you can use to bolt it onto a card using the stock mounting holes, which means that should the card blow up, you can just take the heatsink off and reattach the stock one to RMA it.

    Heatsink:
    http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?description=35-103-122&refer=pr1c3watch

    Upgraded fan:
    http://www.bestbyte.net/Product.cfm?ProductID=924&CategoryID=8&Keyword=

    You'll need longer screws for that fan, but since the coolermaster heatsink has a plastic fan frame mounting thingy, any screw will do- it doesn't have to be the same size/thread count as the original.

    I'd also suggest a Zalman Fan bracket +92mm fan (unless you have a blowhole in front of the video card on the side of the case) because heat tends to get trapped under the card.

    RAMsinks are pretty much worthless, especially if you attach them with that "thermal" tape... You could try lapping the ram chips and the ramsinks and attaching them with some good thermal epoxy (arctic alumina), but I doubt that'd help either- RAM just doesn't get that hot.

    Anyhow, I've got some ideas and tricks for attaching some of those bigger heatsinks using the stock mounting holes too, so if you wanted to do that as opposed to using thermal epoxy, I can tell you how...

    You should probably check for clearance tho. Heatsinks, especially ones with thin fins, and copper ones in general, don't take kindly to being cut. It can be done, but you'll usually screw up the fins around the area you cut (which isn't really all that big of a deal actually)
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited October 2003
    ok, i finally got the pics!!

    on more thing, would the R9000 be better then the 5200??

    ok here are the pics

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    P1000347.JPG

    there they are, if you need any more just ask!!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    You know that coolermaster heatsink I linked to? The one on newegg, that I said I have on my northbridge? Well, that's the one you have on your CPU now.

    It looks like you could fit something bigger on your card though, if you wanted to. It wouldn't be centered, because of the caps right next to the GPU on the one side, but it looks like the area around the RAM is completely open, so the heatsink could overhang that.

    What are the specs on that system, btw? That coolermaster heatsink is only designed for like a 900MHz Duron... and it appears that you don't have any exhaust fans in the case. If you've got a P3/Celeron, it's not that big of a deal, but if that's an amd system, you're gonna want to upgrade the cooling before you do anything...
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