New ATI Overclocker

Veridian3

I've been a long time fan of Radclocker and used it in my reviews in the past. Unfortunatley Radclocker was discontinued and since then my OCtool options have left me a bit cold. There is however some hope, W1zzard has begun development on his own overclocking tool, you can get it (currently v0.0.12) from this link here.

Interesting features of note are Autofind of Max overclock and seperate 2d/3d profiles.

(No installer, just unzip and run)

Enjoy.

The_Neon_Cowboy

i use radlinker .999

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MIG-31

not sure if i trust this fully.

just ran on my 9800pro stock cooling, autofind option took it straight from 380mhz to 491mhz.

my memory went from 340mhz default to around 390mhz with no heatsinks.

could be intesting to see other results from other members.

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rogeld

It did that from stock cooling? If it is really overclocking your card that high...umm...I might wait until there are a few more comments before giving it a whirl.

craig588

hmm, I have it running right now. It seems to be finding the same limits I found on my own.

I'm more interested in how long it waits before it decieds that that speed is stable, right now its on 445MHz, and I found my limit to be 438MHz.

How long did you let it run JB?


EDIT: and while I was typing that it dropped the speed to 444MHz.

HsuGotaQ

With a 9600 Pro (retail), it detected the max core frequency @ 510 MHz. The best I can get it without artifacts (from games anyway) is 480 Mhz. I won't even touch the memory since I have no heatsinks on them and I would be scared to bust my board. Nice tool, but still in it's infancy.

craig588

hmm, it nerver stops for me....

It just keeps going trying to detect the max speed. After how many seconds does it stop for you guys?

HawK

Scary moments here..
did the autofind max core, got to up to 378 and stayed there with no artifacts
next step autofind memory reached 291 and computer locked completely
restarted, tried again the memory; came to 280 and complete screen going bezerk
did a reset and still thick black lines
unplugged the computer, let it cool for 5 min's, and it is normal again
So be carefull out there.. you hear
oh yeh forgot, 9700np here

HsuGotaQ

I think it never stops. It just keeps on going and going and going... it's the Energizer Bunny man!

Another thing I find odd is that it finds no artifacts when you do the autofind option, but the second you stop it (with the top memory and/or core frequency) and use the find artifact option, it goes crazy and finds one every 0.001 second. There seem to be some mathematical problem or something with the artifact tester in the autofind option.

MIG-31

to start with only about 5 minuites. no idea how long the test runs for but will be trying again soon to give a better test when i have a little more time.i will post back with the info.

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BWX

Holy crap, that story scares me enough to NOT run the "autofind" feature at all- but I will download the program and check it out.. Sounds like it could be a great program with some more testing and tweaking.

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The_Neon_Cowboy

rofl

i think i'll pass on this one

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FluffyChicken

Where's the development site for this ?

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FluffyChicken

HAHAHA

Just tried this on my M6 in my Laptop.....
Defaults = 166/166
Well Find max Core went to 215 the hung the computer
Restart
Tried Find Max Mem settling around 194 and it was saying no artefacts but I could see them !
I think they should use a larger window and ramp up the values slower.

Another bug is the lower limit of the sliders is 200 for both... pretty hard to set it to 190 myself

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HawK

Yeah, llast time I was this scared, was when i saw my mother inlaw for the first time (don't ask)

Dyre Straits

I'm still using RadClocker from previous Omegadrivers. (I just don't opt to uninstall it when updating drivers.)

I've been running my 9600 Pro at 481Core/351 Memory for WEEKS now without problems. I'm only using additional case fans for extra cooling.

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redheads

Ok here it goes just downloaded that program and its running now to see what the max core speed is for my 9600 pro it went to around 587 and now i'm at 576 that's around the max i have being testing it with radclocker and some benchmark programs.

HsuGotaQ

OMFG! That's some damn high core frequency for a simple 9600 Pro. Is it the built by ATI and how high can you get your memory at that frequency? (note: is it actually stable at that speed?)

redheads

Ok done testing

And its a club 3d 9600 pro max that this new program gives me is 576/373 and that about the same i could get it with radclocker only difference is now i can be a bit more fine tuning my card.

And yes all my test where around that speed with radclocker and 3d mark 2001se got me just in the 14k and 2003 in the 4300 points aqua mark 3 was 35.301

System is a epox 8rda+ xp1800+ running at 2300mhz pc3200 promise raid contr tx2

Oops forgot something and that was with some extra power to the card with a floppy power con soldert on the card did also a vcore mod but that was giving me to little

HsuGotaQ

Ah... now that power mod would explain those high core scores.

skinlab

got about the same values i got, then dropped them down a bit

9600pro (bba)

my values:
core: 526.50 (stock cooling)
memory: 344.25 (no cooling)

its values:
core: 524.50~525.50 (vantec iceberq copper, so i should hit higher)
memory: 342.25~343.25 (no cooling)


nice program to mess around with, but still very buggy. i got artifacts on memory after hitting about 345-346, but it kept resetting itself and stayed at same speed.

id rather stick to radclocker, which still works fine.

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rogeld

Not sure how on topic this is but what are some pretty average values acheived with a stock 9700P from ATi? Think I will pass on this one but RadClocker seems like a pretty good bet from the positive comments I have read here.

Falstaff

intersting tool, it took me up the core and mem ladder a little, but I am still a little wary about OC my new card, but great tool

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redheads

That vcore mod gave me not much on stock i could get it right to 564.5 with radclocker so that 11.5 mhz is not all that great for that vcore mod was hoping to reach 600mhz but core is limited to what i said above thats the max mine will do tryed it if i raise the vcore by a itch it goes black.

Running radclocker and that new one and it seems that it affect radclocker in form of fine tuning the steps to ingrease are now the same as that new one.And if you set that new one to low the high limit of rad goes down to.

BWX

I run my 9700pro at 350 to 355 core- about 320 mem, but it will go higher on mem.. I have no need for the "find the max" tool because I know exactly what my hardware will do about 3 days after I get it. That's the thing, someone who doesn't know the limits of their hardware shouldn't be letting a program try to find it for them. It's a cool toy for someone who already knows what the video card will do, but dangerous for anyone else I think.

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funkymonkey

I talked with the writter of this tool and tried it several times on my 2 rigs.
1 had 9800XT and 1 has 9700.
Yes the autofind feature does take your clock and memory speeds high but you have to let it run for an hour before it settles down to artifact free clock/memory.
You wont get proper settings in 5 minutes.
I lett it run on my 9800XT for 1 hour and it setteled to nice 459/411.
Ran 3dmark loop for 4 hours without any crash or artifacts.
I know many of us dont wana wait for 1 hour but this tool ensures that you wont need to check for stability or artifacts yourself.
Anyway new version of this tool is released 0.0.13
The sudden increase in clock speed issue is fixed in this.

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HsuGotaQ

Kewl... where can we download the new version?

blade5545

There is a bug in the new version .13 i ran the program for about an hour once it hit the highest speed on the core is started decreasing the speed of the core without stopping by the time i got back to the comptuer it lowered the speed of the core to 220mhz and I have ATI 9700 PRO. Otherwise nice program I like it.

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BMG_Cya=-

Both the 13 and the new 14 version have bugs. Lowered my core to 250 something, and I'm on
a 9800 Pro...and have run at 440 Core...no artifacts in every benchmark in existence.

When this "tool" gets straightened out I might use it. Otherwise..no thanks.