6800 overclock question

with good airflow what is the best overclock I can get from a 6800
non-ultra with stock cooler. this is a eVGA card, seems well made. I
don't wanna fry it, just get a ballpark idea of what is possible. are
the ram chips cooled by the stock cooler ie large flat green cooler with
black fan at one end ? if I can get a little better performance with EQ
II then I will sit tight.

other components include

XP 3200, 1 GB dual channel, NF7-S2G, sata drive, SB Live !, Antec
tower case with 430w power supply. Computer runs cool and stable, has
cooling fan blowing directly on the video card.

using Rivatuner to unlock the other four pipes, no artifacts seen.
core was 325 MHz, now 345. ram on card not OC yet, want the core tested
first. any comments welcomed, thanks in advance.

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with good airflow what is the best overclock I can get from a 6800
non-ultra with stock cooler. this is a eVGA card, seems well made. I
don't wanna fry it, just get a ballpark idea of what is possible. are
the ram chips cooled by the stock cooler ie large flat green cooler with
black fan at one end ? if I can get a little better performance with EQ
II then I will sit tight.

other components include

XP 3200, 1 GB dual channel, NF7-S2G, sata drive, SB Live !, Antec
tower case with 430w power supply. Computer runs cool and stable, has
cooling fan blowing directly on the video card.

using Rivatuner to unlock the other four pipes, no artifacts seen.
core was 325 MHz, now 345. ram on card not OC yet, want the core tested
first. any comments welcomed, thanks in advance.


My Leadtek 6800le is running the core 300 (stock) in 2D and 425 in 3D with
the memory (DDR) at 440 with 16 pipes and 5 shaders, stock cooler. Watch
the heat, might want to replace the stock heatsink compound with something
better to start. 11,500 was its best in 3DMark03.

Running on NF7S-v2, Athlon 2400 mobile @ 2.5GHz.

http://www.mvktech.net/ is a *great* site for tools and tips.

Pete wrote:
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with good airflow what is the best overclock I can get from a 6800
non-ultra with stock cooler. this is a eVGA card, seems well made. I
don't wanna fry it, just get a ballpark idea of what is possible. are
the ram chips cooled by the stock cooler ie large flat green cooler with
black fan at one end ? if I can get a little better performance with EQ
II then I will sit tight.

other components include

XP 3200, 1 GB dual channel, NF7-S2G, sata drive, SB Live !, Antec
tower case with 430w power supply. Computer runs cool and stable, has
cooling fan blowing directly on the video card.

using Rivatuner to unlock the other four pipes, no artifacts seen.
core was 325 MHz, now 345. ram on card not OC yet, want the core tested
first. any comments welcomed, thanks in advance.



My Leadtek 6800le is running the core 300 (stock) in 2D and 425 in 3D with
the memory (DDR) at 440 with 16 pipes and 5 shaders, stock cooler. Watch
the heat, might want to replace the stock heatsink compound with something
better to start. 11,500 was its best in 3DMark03.

Running on NF7S-v2, Athlon 2400 mobile @ 2.5GHz.

http://www.mvktech.net/ is a *great* site for tools and tips.

thanks Pete, so did you replace the thermal paste in your
6800le ? so far just raising the gpu by 27 MHz made a difference. I hope
the frame rates go even higher once the ram is sped up some. Think
having 128 MB ram is enough for EQ II ? of course 256 DDR3 would be
great, but if 128 overclocked would do it then I will just wait and
upgrade later when agp cards are even cheaper. thanks again, good link !

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thanks Pete, so did you replace the thermal paste in your
6800le ? so far just raising the gpu by 27 MHz made a difference. I hope
the frame rates go even higher once the ram is sped up some. Think
having 128 MB ram is enough for EQ II ? of course 256 DDR3 would be
great, but if 128 overclocked would do it then I will just wait and
upgrade later when agp cards are even cheaper. thanks again, good link !


Yes, with Arctic Silver Ceramique. It still runs hot, hotter than what it
should, but without aftermarket cooling that's to be expected. The Leadtek
has a nice copper heatsink but a pretty small fan, at least in the LE
version.

EQII? Run it and see. Push what you have. We're kind of on the trailing
edge of the power curve. In 2 years it will be worthless anyway.

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with good airflow what is the best overclock I can get from a 6800
non-ultra with stock cooler. this is a eVGA card, seems well made. I
don't wanna fry it, just get a ballpark idea of what is possible. are
the ram chips cooled by the stock cooler ie large flat green cooler with
black fan at one end ? if I can get a little better performance with EQ
II then I will sit tight.

other components include

XP 3200, 1 GB dual channel, NF7-S2G, sata drive, SB Live !, Antec
tower case with 430w power supply. Computer runs cool and stable, has
cooling fan blowing directly on the video card.

using Rivatuner to unlock the other four pipes, no artifacts seen.
core was 325 MHz, now 345. ram on card not OC yet, want the core tested
first. any comments welcomed, thanks in advance.



My Leadtek 6800le is running the core 300 (stock) in 2D and 425 in 3D
with the memory (DDR) at 440 with 16 pipes and 5 shaders, stock cooler.
Watch the heat, might want to replace the stock heatsink compound with
something better to start. 11,500 was its best in 3DMark03. Running on
NF7S-v2, Athlon 2400 mobile @ 2.5GHz.

http://www.mvktech.net/ is a *great* site for tools and tips.

thanks Pete, so did you replace the thermal paste in your 6800le
? so far just raising the gpu by 27 MHz made a difference. I hope the
frame rates go even higher once the ram is sped up some. Think having 128
MB ram is enough for EQ II ? of course 256 DDR3 would be great, but if 128
overclocked would do it then I will just wait and upgrade later when agp
cards are even cheaper.

Might take awhile for some of these high-end AGP cards to come down.You
might even see some prices rise short term
as these cards are fazed out and become harder to find.Look at the 6800gs
prices are holding steady even after the release of the
7800gs.-Vic