ATI Radeon 8500 Overclocking

[SW-14]

How do you overclock this card? Is there some software that I would need? Also, would I risk damaging the card?

[DrZaius]

You can tweak the settings with Radeon Tweaker.

http://radeontweaker.sourceforge.net/

[wolfie]

hi
here's another one to try: http://www.rage3d.com/r3dtweak/

wolfie

[SW-14]

Thanks, how should I go about this, just bump it up a few mhz and test to make sure it runs ok?

[SW-14]

Well, I oc'd it, it worked like a charm.

[oosik]

Originally posted by SW-14 Thanks, how should I go about this, just bump it up a few mhz and test to make sure it runs ok?

Not hasvng used this particular program but have used others, the method remains the same. Just to be safe and too learn, kick up the core clock 5-10mhz and the memory clock about the same, tho you could probably go higher. then run it for a while and see how stable it is. Run some graphics intensive stuff through it, games and what not. There is probably a site or software that will test the speed of your card so you can see what kind of increases you are getting. Since I haven't done this in a while I don't know where to get that myself.........../me starts looking.

oosik

[SW-14]

www.madonion.com

It's got a great benchmark test you can download. I oc'd my video card, and gained 475 points.

[wolfie]

yep, great site, do most of my testing there

wolfie