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    7950GTX OCing results?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by eleron911, May 24, 2008.

  1. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Hi, this is a call to all 7950GTX users.
    I want to know how far your 7950GTXs cards OCed and when artefacting started showing up.
    Highest I could go was 605/800~ish and after that 3dmark started showing weird circles and lines. Also, the 3dmark score gain was ~300ish.
     
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    X-project Notebook Enthusiast

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    And how many points you received?
     
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  3. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Standard test,standard clocks - 5600.
    OCed to 605/800 - 5950.

    Where are the 7950GTX users ? :mad:
     
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  5. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    The thing is, whatever I do, I can`t go beyond 625, even with the stock 700 Mhz mem. Artefacts all over.
    I`m trying to get the best out of this card before upgrading this summer...
    And can`t reach the damn 6k mark...not artefact free anyway.
     
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  6. The Forerunner

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    That usually happens when its not getting enough voltage. You can try editing the bios and increasing the voltage.
     
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  7. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Yea, and I`d end up frying it before summer :D
    I was just trying to see how far people got with their 7950GTXs...
     
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  8. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    Have you tried lowering your memory clock then bumping up the core\shader.
    From my experience with my 8400 adding to the memory clock brings improvements in the range of 0% to 0%. Then again mines gddr3 and yours is ddr2 so.. :\
     
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  9. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Lol,the 7950GTX is ddr3 (575/700) :)
    Na, I give up, apparently there are no 7950GTX users lol...
     
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    This is the highest most stable clocks my 7950GTX (using the old 174.16 driver) could go. :rolleyes: But then again I'm not using it anymore so meh... :p

    [​IMG]
     
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  11. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Well, frankly my highest score was 6250 ,but major artefacting.
    Highest stable : 5950 :confused:
    The 7950GTX is a bad OCer, I mean the 8800M GTX goes from 500/1250/800 to 600/1500/900 easily...
     
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  12. Tony_A

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    FWIW, I once overclocked mine to 620+ core, 800/1600 RAM. Sorry no benchmarks/3dmarks, only did it once for fun ;) Stopped pushing the core at 620, it might have went further if I tried.

    Basically the same laptop as yours, but mine is a 5760/M570U

    Haven't OC'd my laptop since then (over a year ago) It's fast enough for my needs.
     
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  13. maksin01

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    Yea I know, but for me 5938 was the highest score (with NO artifacts) I could get after OCing my CPU and GPU. But of course the 8800 is much better. ;) But then again my 8800 can only get up to 550/1400/850 max even after I increased the voltage... (maybe it's because mine is only a NP5790 instead of the new NP5793 so it just couldn't handle it... :rolleyes: )
     
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  14. Audigy

    Audigy Notebook Evangelist

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    A 8400M with GDDR3? NASA stuff there :D or maybe an 8400M XXX special edition... ;)

    And only the 8/9 series have shader processor units, so only on them it´s possible to change the SPs frequency.

    ;)
     
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  15. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    Quad sli- 8400m GDDR33 "Superclocked" + pentium 1 10 GHz "jurassic edition" FTW!!! :D :D :D
     
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  16. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Somebody`s been drinking too much coffee :D
     
    eleron911, May 26, 2008
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