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I finally decided to download and try out ATITool to overclock my little 7300GT and it turns out it overclocks pretty well. Default core/memory frequencies are 400/400 and I'm able to get the core to 500Mhz without any artifacts.

So my question is, I'm currently stressing it at 475/400 and it's sitting at 70C and I'm wondering if thats a decent temperature for a card on full load?

I think I'll set the core at 450 for now and see how far the memory can go, hopefully it can do good too

what's full load to you and what is the room and case temp?

It's not really full load since you probably can't tell exactly how much you're using, but scanning for artifacts in ATITool seems to be stressing it quite a bit.

Room temp is a little under 19C.

Not too sure about case temp, but motherboard is at 26C according to EVEREST and CPU idles at ~34C, ~44C on 50% load and around 55C on 100% load. Everything is on stock cooling in an Antec Sonata II case.


Oh and, testing the card at 450/450 now. Looks good, but the GPU temp still sits at 70C with ATITool running.

ATI tool's artifact tester is pretty solid load as far as things go. Unless your room is air conditioned, then beware that the resultant temps will go up as the ambient temperature does.

Dan

DMB2000uk wrote:Unless your room is air conditioned, then beware that the resultant temps will go up as the ambient temperature does.

Yeah I'm aware of this little issue, but my computer is in the basement so it doesn't get very hot, can't remember for sure but I think it doesn't get much hotter than 22C.

I'll probably stick some extra fan(s) in the case eventually too.

Edit: took a 80mm fan out of my old case and I simply put it under the video card, I get nearly 10C cooler temps when it idles and 50C (20C difference!) while scanning for artifacts.

Edit2: Core now at 550 (37% overclock) That fan keeps it at 38C idle, which is ~5C cooler than what I had when running at 400Mhz. Not bad for a 80$ card. Testing 550/500 now, sitting at 60C.