Overclocking the GPU a bit.

[Exile69]

Just figured out how to make my old Arctic Cooling Silencer Rev. 3 work on my X800. I figure now I can hit some sort of decent overclock. I've got ATI tool version .24 and it's monitering my temperatures and my overclocking for now. Is this a good program for temp monitoring? Or is there something more precise? My current temps hover around 40c idle and 45-50c load. Is that normal? How far should I be able to push this card? Thanks in advance.

[GrahamGarside]

Yeah you are safe at those temps and much more, above 70°C is when I would be uncomfortable about temps.

You are safe clocking it until it affects stablity, atitool has a handy artifact detector so you know when you've gone too far

[Seperah]

Rage3D has a nice overclocking tool, you can use it in co-op with ATI tool too.
I use the Rage for overclocking, and the Tool for temperature monitoring.

By the way - is your card an "x800" or x800-pro?

[Exile69]

An X800 unfortunately. PCI-E at that. I think I read somewhere you have an incredible unlocked X800 series card. Mind sharing the details?

[cadaveca]

the newer cards are pcb locked. the old AGP pcb was good for any series of x800, and they used bios locks to disable functionality. In the new PCI-e version they actual disable the power going to certain parts of the gpu/pcb, and hence prevent bios-mods unless you change some of the hardware.