R9800NP - overclocking problem

I overclocked my radeon to 321/363Mhz and it worked fine (no artefacts in
games) up till one day when I turned my pc on and saw black stripes going
from top to bottom of the screen. I rebooted the machine and everything is
fine again. I went back to the default values again in fear of further
surprises like that. Was that some kind of signal that I shouldn't mess up
with it or what?

Yeah your GPU probably overheated you need to apply better cooling if you
want to stick at that.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:19:10 +0200, power_ranger wrote:

:I overclocked my radeon to 321/363Mhz and it worked fine (no artefacts in
:games) up till one day when I turned my pc on and saw black stripes going
:from top to bottom of the screen. I rebooted the machine and everything is
:fine again. I went back to the default values again in fear of further
:surprises like that. Was that some kind of signal that I shouldn't mess up
:with it or what?

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Lee.

Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:08:37 GMT, na alt.comp.hardware.overclocking, Lee
napisa³(a):

Yeah your GPU probably overheated you need to apply better cooling if you
want to stick at that.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:19:10 +0200, power_ranger wrote:

:I overclocked my radeon to 321/363Mhz and it worked fine (no artefacts in
:games) up till one day when I turned my pc on and saw black stripes going
:from top to bottom of the screen. I rebooted the machine and everything is
:fine again. I went back to the default values again in fear of further
:surprises like that. Was that some kind of signal that I shouldn't mess up
:with it or what?
I don't think that's the case cos I have a VGA Silencer by Arctic Cooling
and it's 50% more effective than the stock ****.
Besides, it happened after the system was cooled down and I turned it on
again after some 5 hours or so.
?

How do you KNOW your cooler is 50% more effective that stock. What does
than even mean? How do you know that the cooler is installed correctly or
is STILL installed correctly? Perhaps it is running too hot ALL the time.
Or perhaps the card isn't properly in the socket, or perhaps has gone bad.
None of these possibilites are ruled out by the information in your posts,
and ESPECIALLY by the claims of the cooler manufacturer.

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"power_ranger" wrote in message
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Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:08:37 GMT, na alt.comp.hardware.overclocking, Lee
napisa³(a):

Yeah your GPU probably overheated you need to apply better cooling if
you
want to stick at that.

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:19:10 +0200, power_ranger
wrote:

:I overclocked my radeon to 321/363Mhz and it worked fine (no artefacts
in
:games) up till one day when I turned my pc on and saw black stripes
going
:from top to bottom of the screen. I rebooted the machine and
everything is
:fine again. I went back to the default values again in fear of further
:surprises like that. Was that some kind of signal that I shouldn't
mess up
:with it or what?
I don't think that's the case cos I have a VGA Silencer by Arctic Cooling
and it's 50% more effective than the stock ****.
Besides, it happened after the system was cooled down and I turned it on
again after some 5 hours or so.
?

Yes. It means that your memory cannot handle it. Either that or the heat
is too much for the memory. Either way, you get artifacts. That is most
certainly memory related, IMHO.


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power_ranger stood up at show-n-tell, in
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I overclocked my radeon to 321/363Mhz and it worked fine (no
artefacts in games) up till one day when I turned my pc on and saw
black stripes going from top to bottom of the screen. I rebooted the
machine and everything is fine again. I went back to the default
values again in fear of further surprises like that. Was that some
kind of signal that I shouldn't mess up with it or what?

--
Strontium

"It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every
now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit

Why u bought NP anyway..Now u'll be spending ur hard earned $$$, and time to
o/c the ****.And get nowhere at the end.U should of get the full blown
product in the first place.Believe me its not worth it...8 p/lines instead
of 4????Forget it..Oh ,,sorry ,keep at it so u can generate some mobile
numbers from 3d or similar useless prog's...



"power_ranger" wrote in message
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I overclocked my radeon to 321/363Mhz and it worked fine (no artefacts in
games) up till one day when I turned my pc on and saw black stripes going
from top to bottom of the screen. I rebooted the machine and everything is
fine again. I went back to the default values again in fear of further
surprises like that. Was that some kind of signal that I shouldn't mess up
with it or what?

Aussie wrote:
Why u bought NP anyway..Now u'll be spending ur hard earned $$$, and
time to o/c the ****.And get nowhere at the end.U should of get the
full blown product in the first place.Believe me its not worth it...8
p/lines instead of 4????Forget it..Oh ,,sorry ,keep at it so u can
generate some mobile numbers from 3d or similar useless prog's...

Hehehe.. if you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk ;-) The
non-pro is NOT an SE! The NP is fully the same as the Pro, just at lower
clocks. With the better cooler, the pro GPU speed should be easily
attainable. The major disadvantage is the memory used on n-p's; a bit slower
than that used on the Pro.

Thomas.

Fri, 16 Apr 2004 05:05:12 GMT, na alt.comp.hardware.overclocking, Phil
Weldon napisa³(a):

How do you KNOW your cooler is 50% more effective that stock. What does
than even mean? How do you know that the cooler is installed correctly or

because I use MBM 5 and I can read the temperature gauges Well it's true
I can't be sure whether it's 50% or not but my system temperature fell down
from 42C to 30C which is a big improvement (and I haven't changed anything
else apart from GPU cooler)


is STILL installed correctly? Perhaps it is running too hot ALL the time.

No, it's not - otherwise I would get artefacts ALL the time like I got when
I had stock cooler and I tried to overclocked it. With the stock **** I
could go to 321/363MHz and beyond that I got artefacts

Or perhaps the card isn't properly in the socket,

or perhaps you are kidding me?

None of these possibilites are ruled out by the information in your posts,
and ESPECIALLY by the claims of the cooler manufacturer.

OK, maybe you're right

Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:00:21 +0200, na alt.comp.hardware.overclocking, Thomas
napisa³(a):

Aussie wrote:
Why u bought NP anyway..Now u'll be spending ur hard earned $$$, and
time to o/c the ****.And get nowhere at the end.U should of get the
full blown product in the first place.Believe me its not worth it...8
p/lines instead of 4????Forget it..Oh ,,sorry ,keep at it so u can
generate some mobile numbers from 3d or similar useless prog's...

Hehehe.. if you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk ;-) The
non-pro is NOT an SE! The NP is fully the same as the Pro, just at lower
clocks. With the better cooler, the pro GPU speed should be easily
attainable. The major disadvantage is the memory used on n-p's; a bit slower
than that used on the Pro.

Thomas.

good point Thomas! NP is cheaper and you can get similar results as with
pro if you know how to do it. besides the arctic silencer is way quieter so
it's not a big deal to buy it and enojoy its bebefits
I agree the only problem might be the memory chips. It should be samsung
and mine is not (though the timings are the same 2.8ms)

power_ranger wrote:
good point Thomas! NP is cheaper and you can get similar results as
with pro if you know how to do it. besides the arctic silencer is way
quieter so it's not a big deal to buy it and enojoy its bebefits
I agree the only problem might be the memory chips. It should be
samsung and mine is not (though the timings are the same 2.8ms)

Thanks :-P

Well, I am still enjoying my 9500 NP 128 MB ;-)

This one did have 4 pipes, but I enabled the missing 4. After some
watercooling, I am running it at 380 GPU clock and 321 mem clock :-) Still
no 9800 Pro scores, of coursee, but all in all one of the best deals I've
ever made, performance/$$-wise ;-)

Thomas.