256mb 6600 vs 7300GS

[sawyen]

You'll need to pump more volts if you want to get more out of it.. I suppose PCI-E should have stuff like PCI-E volts etc no?

if money isnt an issue, try getting a Zalman VF700 + memory sinks, that should get your temps lowered and possibly a tad more from ur mem chips..

530MHz seems about right.. sad but you actually went for the 512MB version that runs only typical DDR chips.. If you got the 256MB DDR2 version, you probably could have gotten an extra 200MHz more ... and possibly rival something like a 6600GT.

3427 MHz is pretty respectable.. Again, its a pity u actually went for the 512MB version.. I don't think 6600's fillrate will ever saturate that 512MB... not even 256MB tbh..

Happy clocking..

[ctid]

You'll need to pump more volts if you want to get more out of it.. I suppose PCI-E should have stuff like PCI-E volts etc no?

if money isnt an issue, try getting a Zalman VF700 + memory sinks, that should get your temps lowered and possibly a tad more from ur mem chips..

530MHz seems about right.. sad but you actually went for the 512MB version that runs only typical DDR chips.. If you got the 256MB DDR2 version, you probably could have gotten an extra 200MHz more ... and possibly rival something like a 6600GT.

3427 MHz is pretty respectable.. Again, its a pity u actually went for the 512MB version.. I don't think 6600's fillrate will ever saturate that 512MB... not even 256MB tbh..

Happy clocking..

I'll have a look in my bios for PCI-E volts stuff now. The card I've got actually has DDR2.

[sawyen]

hmn... funny it never hit 800MHz, most DDR2 hits 800MHz easily...

[ctid]

It might be the core clock thats causing the artifacts then. I'll bring the core back down to stock and see where the memory gets to.