OC'ing

[Jokerswild]

I put coolbits on it and just let it optimize. I just did it for the benchmark and then put it back to normal settings for now. I'll overclock the vid card manually after I OC the proc and ram. The 7600gs is really a good card for the price, I've played Olivian and Half-Life2 and they both play better with the 7600gs than the 9800pro flashed to XT.

[Capper]

programs like CoolBits and ATI tool are perfect....you don't have to push your card to the very limit (same with the rest of your system), but simply finding a modest, and stable OC is what its all about

[Jokerswild]

Originally Posted by Capper

programs like CoolBits and ATI tool are perfect....you don't have to push your card to the very limit (same with the rest of your system), but simply finding a modest, and stable OC is what its all about

Thats my goal, to get the most out of it without stressing it too much. I suspect that I'll have this system for a couple years before replacing so I don't want to kill it.

[Capper]

exactly...I could spend all day telling you stories about people I know who crank up those cards as far as they can....only to kill it, then complain about the company. Another point to bring up is the amount of pre-overclocked cards that die after a short time. A small overclock is all you need......

[Jokerswild]

Originally Posted by Capper

exactly...I could spend all day telling you stories about people I know who crank up those cards as far as they can....only to kill it, then complain about the company. Another point to bring up is the amount of pre-overclocked cards that die after a short time. A small overclock is all you need......

My 7600gs scored 2035 on 3dmark 06 and overclocked it scored 2191 not a great difference but it seems stable so far. I'll loop 3d mark 03 since I have a license for that one to test it further. That and fraggin everyone from my camp site in CS:S will test it better. :D

[Jokerswild]

My case LED says it's 86 degrees F that would be 30 Celsius. Whats a good temp for this rig? I know lower is better but whats a normal temp to expect and whats a good temp to keep when overclocking? I realise that my case temp is not my CPU temp and I'm going to reroute my sensor so it's close to the CPU.

[Lead Head]

Originally Posted by jokerswild

My case LED says it's 86 degrees F that would be 30 Celsius. Whats a good temp for this rig? I know lower is better but whats a normal temp to expect and whats a good temp to keep when overclocking? I realise that my case temp is not my CPU temp and I'm going to reroute my sensor so it's close to the CPU.

Is that ambient in the case? If so thats pretty good, While OCing, I never let my winchester go over 52*C, if it gets higher, i bump down the volts and lower the OC. Anything 54*C and under SHOULD be fine though.

As for GPU temps I dont know about the 7600s. My x1800 gets upto 70-78*C load, wich is not exactly high for the R520 chip. Idles around 64*C.

Im guessing for the 7600, 50-60*C load should be about right, but you'll have to get word from someone else who has one

[Jokerswild]

Yes that is ambient in the case but the sensor right now is at the bottom of the case where it would be coolest. I plan to put it as close to the CPU as possible. I still need to tie and route the wires in my case but I won't do that until I get a new PSU.