Hello.
Subject line speaks for itself really. I really quite green at anything but the simplest technical computer tasks, and I've recently bought myself a Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 128Mb card. This replaced the old GeForce2 card, which I had my more competent cousin attatch a standard cooler fan to. That card I overclocked quite a bit, so I've been hearing about the 9600's great overclocking potential and was just wondering if I would need a cooler for it to reach it's max potential, and if so, how much could I safely overclock it without the help of a cooler, if at all? My system temperature averages 35/95 centigrades/fahrenheit if that's any help.
Oh, and an additional question: With the default settings (HQ Image setting), DirectX 9.0b, and the latest driver, I scored 9800 on 3DMark2001 SE. I had expected it to be a bit higher, seeing as how the score it gets in reviews is often in the 11-12k range, and I'm wondering if my 1.41Ghz AMD Athlon is possibly what is acting as the bottle neck?
Subject line speaks for itself really. I really quite green at anything but the simplest technical computer tasks, and I've recently bought myself a Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 128Mb card. This replaced the old GeForce2 card, which I had my more competent cousin attatch a standard cooler fan to. That card I overclocked quite a bit, so I've been hearing about the 9600's great overclocking potential and was just wondering if I would need a cooler for it to reach it's max potential, and if so, how much could I safely overclock it without the help of a cooler, if at all? My system temperature averages 35/95 centigrades/fahrenheit if that's any help.
Oh, and an additional question: With the default settings (HQ Image setting), DirectX 9.0b, and the latest driver, I scored 9800 on 3DMark2001 SE. I had expected it to be a bit higher, seeing as how the score it gets in reviews is often in the 11-12k range, and I'm wondering if my 1.41Ghz AMD Athlon is possibly what is acting as the bottle neck?
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