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    Increasing ATI X300 performance

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by p1rana, Jun 30, 2005.

  1. p1rana

    p1rana Notebook Enthusiast

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    I was reading that the X300 can do pretty big overclocks fairly safely. I am pretty new to doing performance tweaks so I was wondering if anybody had done anything with this card. Also, is there anyway to get rid of Dell's underclocking without going against warranty, possibly just getting ATI's drivers? Thanks a lot!
     
    p1rana, Jun 30, 2005
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    Is there another topic on this that I missed?
     
    p1rana, Jul 1, 2005
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    Probably not, most ppl who got the x300 obviously aren't really concerned with graphics performance. That said, you probably can download the latest drivers from sites like www.video2go.com or omegadriver, and bump up the speed. you might also try Rivatuner as well.

    Keep in mind that whatever gain you can possibly get from it is going to be relatively minor, it will never even come close to the performance of the next tier -- which is the x700/Go6600 bunch.

    cheers,

    yass
     
    yassarian, Jul 1, 2005
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    Thanks! I had just heard somewhere that it did overclock well but I don't do a lot of gaming so it shouldnt be an issue.
     
    p1rana, Jul 1, 2005
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    The stock x300 from dell operates at 300mhz. It can easily be bumped up to 400Mhz without any issues. When you get to ~420mhz range, u start crashing. The memory overclocks to about ~260 and starts artifacting at 270ish.
     
    x3lda, Jul 2, 2005
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