Memory usually has quite a bit of head room built into it. Expect at least 10% overclock out of memory or more. They rate it WITHOUT cooling too, so if you cool you can get a bit more. Also if the memory is out for a bit and yeilds improve, it usually overclcoks even more. 3.6ns memory is already pretty widely used, so the 4ns memory should do quite well.
I just ordered a GainWard GeForce4 Ti 4200 with 64MB 4ns DDR. I'm going to add some home made ram sinks to the memory. I'm expecting to go from 500Mhz to at least 550Mhz if not 600Mhz. Supposadly the core on these things are hitting tha same as the 4400 and 4600 and Anand got theirs up to 330/540Mhz and he had the 128MB version that runs at 250/444Mhz. 300/600 is the speed of the 4600 and I likely can get pretty close to that. This thing should perform VERY nicely.
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Originally posted by F_A_L_C_O_N: BTW my Hercules 8500LE (4ns Ram) runs quite happily along at 275Mhz (BIOS update from Gigabayte)
did no extra cooling or voltage mod
does anybody think this is pushing a bit to far or am I OK as long as I don't have any visual artifacts or lockups
No, that's fine. Is is VERY hard to do short-term damage to a graphics card by overclocking it. In the long run you may shorten the life of it by extreme overclocking, but what's 1 year gone out of 10 anyway?! Is that the highest you can take it? Pretty good going, as the Hercules cards aren't supposed to be the best overclockers. Don't hold back because you are afraid of damaging your card, you won't.
Good point bout the yields of slower memory, Todd. The 5ns Samsung RAM on some cheaper 8500LE 128MB's is hitting 275MHz+ and that's way out of spec!
Voltage modification and extra cooling goes very far (not quite as effective with BGA RAM though). The 3.6ns RAM on my 8500LE wouldn't do a whisker over 260MHz when I bought it (ATi undervolt the memory on LE's). After the pencil mod and some decent RAMsinks, even 330MHz was artifact-free.
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You don't have to run the clocks in sync, mate. The old Radeon used to be pretty fussy about sync/non-sync but the 8500's are usually "highest is best" whether they are in sync or not. Looks good for 300/285Mhz if you ask me. That'd be a really really nice result without volt modding.
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Yup..CPU sink would do great...in fact that's what I'm going to get around to doing eventually. Right now I have my card clocked down to 166 to prevent it from overheating. When clocked at 184 or 200, it puts up weird characters on the screen upon reboot because the core gets really warm. Runs fine at 166 though. Actually it runs fine at 215....but like I said it gets warm. So I'm going to be putting a cut down SocketA sink on it with a 30w peltier I think...
MuFu I've read that the "old" Radeon you refer to *cough* new for me *cough* performs best at synchronized clock speeds. Does that mean I would get better performance by running at 200/200 instead of 200/234 or something of the likes? Just how much does it matter that I don't sync my clocks?
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