Best Overclocking Program for Radeon

mrestine · Feb 19, 2004, 03:25 PM

Recently aquired one of the new Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro's (bulk) as advertised at NewEgg with the Hynix 2.8ns memory. Overclocks easily to 9800XT spec's with the stock OEM cooling solution using the RadLinker tab in the latest version of Omega's drivers. I don't see any way to have the overclocked settings engage automatically at system start up though. Therefore, I will need to use some kind of overclocking program that retains the overclocked settings and initializes those settings at system start up. I don't really want to tweak any other settings, so I'm really just looking for a relatively small, stable utitlity for this purpose only. Any recommendations? Thanx in advance.

Semper fi,
Mike

swimtech · Feb 19, 2004, 03:41 PM

Here's a thread with a link to the software (ATITool):

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...hlight=atitool

Also Powerstrip should work, but I'm not sure about it not needing to be set upon each bootup...

mrestine · Feb 19, 2004, 05:38 PM

Thanx for the link. I've installed it as recommended and it seems to be working just fine. No problems thus far...

Semper fi,
Mike

swimtech · Feb 19, 2004, 07:56 PM

You're welcome, and good to have you in the forums...

ChrisW · Feb 20, 2004, 02:57 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mrestine
Recently aquired one of the new Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro's (bulk) as advertised at NewEgg with the Hynix 2.8ns memory. Overclocks easily to 9800XT spec's with the stock OEM cooling solution using the RadLinker tab in the latest version of Omega's drivers. I don't see any way to have the overclocked settings engage automatically at system start up though. Therefore, I will need to use some kind of overclocking program that retains the overclocked settings and initializes those settings at system start up. I don't really want to tweak any other settings, so I'm really just looking for a relatively small, stable utitlity for this purpose only. Any recommendations? Thanx in advance.

Semper fi,
Mike

You don't see the "Use Current" button under the "Boot" section?

swimtech · Feb 20, 2004, 03:21 AM

Oops, sorry ChrisW and mrestine, I missed the option...

And it's integrated right into the latest 4.2 Omegas I installed this evening (the options you point out stay greyed out until activated by clicking the "Enable Clock Rate Change" checkbox).

mrestine · Feb 20, 2004, 04:46 AM

Me too...

Thanx!

s/f
Mike

Feb 19, 2004, 03:25 PM	#1
mrestine DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Best Overclocking Program for Radeon Recently aquired one of the new Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro's (bulk) as advertised at NewEgg with the Hynix 2.8ns memory. Overclocks easily to 9800XT spec's with the stock OEM cooling solution using the RadLinker tab in the latest version of Omega's drivers. I don't see any way to have the overclocked settings engage automatically at system start up though. Therefore, I will need to use some kind of overclocking program that retains the overclocked settings and initializes those settings at system start up. I don't really want to tweak any other settings, so I'm really just looking for a relatively small, stable utitlity for this purpose only. Any recommendations? Thanx in advance. Semper fi, Mike __________________ Epox 8RDA+ v1.1, C1 Northbridge, 8RDA3A17 BIOS Barton 2600+ @ 3200+ (11x200) Thermalright SLK-800 1024mb Kingston Hyper-X PC3500 RAM (2.5-3-3-11) Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro (412/365) WD 80gb Special Edition HD (C:\) Lilte-On 40x12x48 CDRW (D:\) Alcohol 120% Virtual Drive (E:\) Matshita LS120 (a:\) nVidia LAN/Soundstorm Audio vCore 1.78 vDIMM 2.70 vDD 1.575 Remix nVidia nForce drivers v3.22 Windows XP Home SP1

Feb 19, 2004, 03:41 PM	#2
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	Here's a thread with a link to the software (ATITool): http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...hlight=atitool Also Powerstrip should work, but I'm not sure about it not needing to be set upon each bootup... __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Feb 19, 2004, 05:38 PM	Thread Starter #3
mrestine DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Thanx for the link. I've installed it as recommended and it seems to be working just fine. No problems thus far... Semper fi, Mike __________________ Epox 8RDA+ v1.1, C1 Northbridge, 8RDA3A17 BIOS Barton 2600+ @ 3200+ (11x200) Thermalright SLK-800 1024mb Kingston Hyper-X PC3500 RAM (2.5-3-3-11) Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro (412/365) WD 80gb Special Edition HD (C:\) Lilte-On 40x12x48 CDRW (D:\) Alcohol 120% Virtual Drive (E:\) Matshita LS120 (a:\) nVidia LAN/Soundstorm Audio vCore 1.78 vDIMM 2.70 vDD 1.575 Remix nVidia nForce drivers v3.22 Windows XP Home SP1

Feb 19, 2004, 07:56 PM	#4
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	You're welcome, and good to have you in the forums... __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Feb 20, 2004, 03:21 AM	#6
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	Oops, sorry ChrisW and mrestine, I missed the option... And it's integrated right into the latest 4.2 Omegas I installed this evening (the options you point out stay greyed out until activated by clicking the "Enable Clock Rate Change" checkbox). __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Feb 20, 2004, 04:46 AM	Thread Starter #7
mrestine DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Me too... Thanx! s/f Mike __________________ Epox 8RDA+ v1.1, C1 Northbridge, 8RDA3A17 BIOS Barton 2600+ @ 3200+ (11x200) Thermalright SLK-800 1024mb Kingston Hyper-X PC3500 RAM (2.5-3-3-11) Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro (412/365) WD 80gb Special Edition HD (C:\) Lilte-On 40x12x48 CDRW (D:\) Alcohol 120% Virtual Drive (E:\) Matshita LS120 (a:\) nVidia LAN/Soundstorm Audio vCore 1.78 vDIMM 2.70 vDD 1.575 Remix nVidia nForce drivers v3.22 Windows XP Home SP1