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hi all!!
I'm new to this forum and I think I read correctly that overclocking questions should be in the cooling and modding section.. right????
anyways, i have an old ATI Radeon9600SE. i know its a junk 64 bit card but i dont want to upgrade until i build a whole new system. for now i would like to know if i can expect any performance boost from overclocking it.
it still has the stock heatsink (with no fan) on it, i did however remove it, clean it, and reseat it with arctic sliver 5. i then placed an 80mm fan underneath it blowing up towards the heatsink from the bottom if the case (the fan is rasied up via 8-32 2 inch bolts that rasie it up about 1 inch from the case floor)
i think that will provide adequite cooling for it because i dont want to spend any money on a VGA cooler and i dont want to tap into my CPU-only water cooling rig.
I have read that it can be flashed to a 128bit interface.. is this really possible? if so, is it safe to do so?
if not, can i expect any actual improvement in performance with it being overclocked?
i play halo (yes i still play halo), COD2, F.E.A.R., DOOM3 and it plays them all fine, but i would like to turn up some bells and whistles a little more, would overclocking allow me to do that???
thanks in advance for your help, ive been a viewer of this forum for quite some time now and i have to say that you guys are awesome!!
I'm new to this forum and I think I read correctly that overclocking questions should be in the cooling and modding section.. right????
anyways, i have an old ATI Radeon9600SE. i know its a junk 64 bit card but i dont want to upgrade until i build a whole new system. for now i would like to know if i can expect any performance boost from overclocking it.
it still has the stock heatsink (with no fan) on it, i did however remove it, clean it, and reseat it with arctic sliver 5. i then placed an 80mm fan underneath it blowing up towards the heatsink from the bottom if the case (the fan is rasied up via 8-32 2 inch bolts that rasie it up about 1 inch from the case floor)
i think that will provide adequite cooling for it because i dont want to spend any money on a VGA cooler and i dont want to tap into my CPU-only water cooling rig.
I have read that it can be flashed to a 128bit interface.. is this really possible? if so, is it safe to do so?
if not, can i expect any actual improvement in performance with it being overclocked?
i play halo (yes i still play halo), COD2, F.E.A.R., DOOM3 and it plays them all fine, but i would like to turn up some bells and whistles a little more, would overclocking allow me to do that???
thanks in advance for your help, ive been a viewer of this forum for quite some time now and i have to say that you guys are awesome!!