good overclock for ti 4200?

[Ryan2318]

Hey, I was wondering what a good overclock for a ti 4200 was. Mine is an Abit and the software that came with it only works for windows ME (what were they thinking) so I d/led RivaTuner. I have it overclocked to 300.4/621 right now. I can get the ram to 650 but anything over 621 gives me little messups in the video and eventually the card resets itself to the lowest values. I am guessing thats a good overclock since its close to a 4600 (just need 30 mghz more for ram). Before overclock I got 10882 and after I got 12274 which is about 1400 mark increase. I got more before dx9(got 11,600 in 8.1 w/o overclock), I don't know why it gives me lower scores than dx8.1 did.

I am going to order a slot fan as soon as they come back into stock on newegg and then also an aftermarket hsf w/ heat sinks for ram. Basically I just need the ram sinks because they seem to be the hottest thing. Whats a good thing to buy as far as that goes. (link from newegg..) Also when I was looking at them and my card, they have 4 ram sinks (2 for top and 2 for bottom), but on my card I see two next to each other to the bottom of the top and 2 to the right. Do the sinks spread across two at a time? If they do then 4 is fine but if not, I'd need 8...

Anyway what have you guys overclocked you cards to?

[Floppyman]

Hi,

Check out www.sidewindercomputers.com. I know they also carry some videocard cooling gear. HTH

[Ryan2318]

ok thanks. what does hth stand for?

edit: thanks for the link, i went there and some have 8 for the ram and some have 4 where it is really long and covers two at a time. My main concern is that my ram is really close to the agp slot. I moved the ram to the 3rd slot so its out of the way but it would be really really close if i put ram sinks on. Is there a way to pull of the side clips for ram on a mobo? I would need to take off 1, possibly two if the sink started touching the clips. there is space and it would hopefully fit, i was just wondering if in a worst case scenario, i could take the two closest clips for the system ram off. I have 3 ram slots and only one is occupied so I don't need those slots (besides possible future upgrade).

edit again: how would the ram sinks stay on. would the thermal paste/tape just be sticky enough to hold it? I know it comes with tape which would hold it but do you think AS3 would be sticky enough to?

don't you just love my edits?: is there software to read the temp of the gpu? (and ram if possible)

[Fastfly]

I have mine at


Note Gainward: 320/640

[Ryan2318]

does your gainward have ramsinks already installed? My Abit has the ram out in the open... I just upped my gpu to 320 and its fine at that, but I really need to get the ram sinks on site floppyman showed me because the ram burn my finger to the touch.

[Floppyman]

Hi Ryan,

Just to let you know, HTH stands for "Hope this/that helps". I've ordered from sidewinder a couple times before and have always been satisfied with their products and service.

[Ryan2318]

ok thanks.