x600 Overclocking

Hi, I just downloaded ATITOOL and started playing with core and mem clocks to see how it looks....

I got a stable 480-300Mhz (from 400-260Mhz) and noticed a 100 points effect in 3dmark05 (from 1339 to 1440).
I could even get 509-306Mhz but the score came down to 1379).....I assume it was not stable enough.

How is your x600 doing?

Those extra 100....will I really note improvement in real gaming??

 

What notebook do you have? Those scores are impressive -- even at default speeds. Getting back on topic, no, I wouldn't expect a major improvement in real-world gaming. Maybe 3-6 fps extra here and there, but nothing of a major impact. Well, this depends on the game of course. Doom 3 would still be rather unplayable at 1280x800 despite the overclock for example.

 

Run a few game benchmarks before and after the overclocking, see what your average frames per second are. A good test is the Stress Test in Counter-Strike Source.

I have had great success making games run smoother with overclocking - did it with my old laptop. No need to on the new one.

 

Is a GW MX7515, Mobile Athlon 64 4000 (2.6Ghz), 1GB DDR333, 100GB 5400RPM, X600 256MB Hypermemory (64MB dedicated).
As far as I saw on most postings the score is quite average for an X600....CY007, are you getting less that that?

 

My base score is 1170s from just the 64mb dedicated...with my Asus...Havent tried to boost up the Vram yet. Where or what software to boost the Vrams?

 

You might check this (more straightforward and condensed):
http://www.thegamebooks.com/article:-the-true-performance-gain-overclockers-get!-t18-8.html

On same forum you can find tools for overclocking. Ati tray tool is my favorite.

And here is huge x700 overclocking thread on notebookreview:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=31609

Latencies numbers are not working for every card! If you decide play with it, you might first read above mentioned threads.

Happy overclocking,

 

rad avatar/name, By Tor

how's the snowdog?

 

I ran 3DMark05 on my M60 and I think that I got about 1400 on it, but that was with the stock 128MB X600 card, but it has 256MB w/hypermemory. Definately not the greatest, but it is a heck of a lot better than the 16MB Nvidia card I had in my Satellite 5005-S504 before.

Matt

 

The secret to overclocking the x600 is not the core clock, you should lower that core clock until you can get your memory to even out the Core/Memory speeds. You arent going to see much of any kind of point increase until you even out the numbers. If you continually push the core as high as it will go without pushing memory, it will literally get you nothing but heat problems, as you so noted with your '05 score.

Finding the right latencies will get you roughly another 75 points by itself. My clock speeds are running 410mHz and 375 mHz for the memory clock. I got my 2048 after 3 days of playing with the speeds and latencies. The other ATI Overclocking thread that ikovak mentions is probably the most informative. ikovak knows what he's talking about

 

Ok, so I was pretty close on my score, stock it is 1460 not 1400, so I'll install the Omega drivers and let the tweeking begin!

Matt

 

So after about 2 hours of messing with my speeds I have my score up to 1841. Hoping to hit the 2000 mark soon. I'm at 400 and 326.

Matt