6600GT OC'ing!

[Trippledence]

Started playing around with the auto overclocking feature with my XFX 6600GT PCI-E. Ive set it on auto and it seems to work fine, i was jsut wondering how hot I should let it get?

The 'core slowdown threshold is 127'c ARR! Seems a Bit OTT to me. Dont fancy that kinda heat im my case.

Also does any one have this card oc'ed if so what setting are you using.

[Tobeman]

Reading Custom PC they made 3 different machines (Pentium, AMD64 and Celeron) with three of those graphics cards. They managed to push one 84% faster than stock speed.

Have fun

Edit: My bad, they had a water cooling kit in each, with a VGA block, so it wasnt air cooled

Edit 2: They had the stock 6600 not 6600GT, my bad again, please ignore this post as if it never existed

[Trippledence]

Thanks, i surpose!

[Olly1234]

Well I've seen some OC tests on XFX and got core clock speed from 500 MHz to 580 MHz, a 16% increase, and the memory 500 MHz to 650 MHz, a 30% increase, thats on air though i've not tried it with mine that high since my 9800pro died after about a year of OC'

[Trippledence]

Dont scare me. Im not sure what the cards running at seen as the software is ocing it automaticaly. Reached 75'c Only 5 more that when it wasnt overclocked so i dont think that its doing it that much.. Got my 3D mark up a bit though.

[skuzgib]

IIRC GPUs can withstand much higher temps than CPUs for some reason or another.

[Olly1234]

Well mine idles at about 47C and thermal protection kicks in at 145C so i'm pretty sure you could take it to 100C + without much of a problem, highest i've had mines about 70ish though under load and overclocked, think i'd be scared if it got to 130!

[Trippledence]

Yeah, i dont want to pust this card. I think i'll leave it on auto. For now. If ite getting me a higher 3d Mark. Though HL2 lagged a bit every now and again. But i think the setting haddnt gone throuhg ill try it more tomuow.

[ANZAC_ELITE]

Head over to Guru3D forums, there are threads galore on this topic, best driver recommendations, oc tutorials etc.

[Trippledence]

Thanks for the site, ill head over there.

[alexander]

Is that a Winchester or Newcastle? (Suspecting a 3500+?)


Whoops, wrong thread. I'm not that random....

[Trippledence]

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