Hi all. I am using ATI Tool 0.24 to find the max core for my new Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2. This is my first time OCing anything, so please be patient with me if I ask what might seem to be asinine questions
OK, I made sure that Temporal AA is off, and I clicked on "Find Max Core". Now what happens here is that it the analysis never does find any errors or artifacting, but the moment it hits 580, it just freezes for about 5 secs, and then shutsdown the entire display, almost as if it stops sending DVI info. The whole computer just stops responding - no sound, no keyboard response, and the monitor goes into a sleep state. This is the second time/test I have done this.
I just wanted to confirm this is normal OC methodology, I had for some reason just thought that I would see some artifacting before the whole system were to crash.
The final temperature is 76C. Actually, from what I noticed it actually goes to about 72C when it hits 425 or so, and then just kind of hangs around that area, only going up marginally after that.
So would it be safe to assume that the max core for this card is about 560 or even 570?
PS: Once the computer crashes when ATI Tool starts clocking it too high, does it immediately send the GPU back to its default clocks? I just want to know because the system was left in its crashed state for about 10 mins, and I just wanted to make sure I didn't in advertently burn something by leaving it at 580 for 10 mins. It seemed to be OK, because on my second test, I checked the CPU thermal probe, and the CPU temperature seemed to be dropping right after I crashed the system, whereas it just kept going up when I was running the "Find Max" test.
OK, I made sure that Temporal AA is off, and I clicked on "Find Max Core". Now what happens here is that it the analysis never does find any errors or artifacting, but the moment it hits 580, it just freezes for about 5 secs, and then shutsdown the entire display, almost as if it stops sending DVI info. The whole computer just stops responding - no sound, no keyboard response, and the monitor goes into a sleep state. This is the second time/test I have done this.
I just wanted to confirm this is normal OC methodology, I had for some reason just thought that I would see some artifacting before the whole system were to crash.
The final temperature is 76C. Actually, from what I noticed it actually goes to about 72C when it hits 425 or so, and then just kind of hangs around that area, only going up marginally after that.
So would it be safe to assume that the max core for this card is about 560 or even 570?
PS: Once the computer crashes when ATI Tool starts clocking it too high, does it immediately send the GPU back to its default clocks? I just want to know because the system was left in its crashed state for about 10 mins, and I just wanted to make sure I didn't in advertently burn something by leaving it at 580 for 10 mins. It seemed to be OK, because on my second test, I checked the CPU thermal probe, and the CPU temperature seemed to be dropping right after I crashed the system, whereas it just kept going up when I was running the "Find Max" test.