ATI X1950XT with Thermalright HR-03 GT

[Monkeywoman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ny1bNnobU i'm presently running the card passive because my fan didnt come in yet. clocks are 625/800. temps are 32 idle and 75 load. i will post pics and oc clocks when i get my fan in; should come in 3 days.

[LuckyNV]

any low rpm 120mm fan will drop the load to like 45-55C or so depending on your case cooling and game.

odd you had to mod it a bit, should have full compatibility :S

looks awesome

[Xcel]

Nice temps compared to my 92c under load with the stock cooler. So how well does the core overclock now :D Give it your best shot

Btw, only 800 on the memory? isn't 900 stock, mine was at least.

[tiborrr]

Mine also had over 95deg C under stock cooler. I replaced it with TT Volcano 12+, not much better, around 65deg C under load (base of this cooler simply isnt sufficient for such heatload).
http://shrani.si/thumbs/picture12sxy.jpg (http://shrani.si/?picture12sxy.jpg) http://shrani.si/thumbs/img478812sx6.jpg (http://shrani.si/?img478812sx6.jpg) http://shrani.si/thumbs/img478612sxb.jpg (http://shrani.si/?img478612sxb.jpg) http://shrani.si/thumbs/img479012sxc.jpg (http://shrani.si/?img479012sxc.jpg) http://shrani.si/thumbs/img479212sxd.jpg (http://shrani.si/?img479212sxd.jpg) http://shrani.si/thumbs/img479112sxe.jpg (http://shrani.si/?img479112sxe.jpg)

Now i installed Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 with two quiet 1300rpm fans (Papst), temperatures never surpas 52-53degC even with 1.5Vgpu @ 720/980 with tight mem timings.

http://shrani.si/f/3k/kb/4xTmjFiE/dscn0696.jpg

Now try to beat my results ;)
http://www.hwbot.org/quickSearch.do?hardwareId=GPU_1050

http://shrani.si/f/3W/vS/3Weg64wS/dsc00035.jpg

[Xcel]

I can't decide whether or not to buy an aftermarket cooler/mod a c2d intel heatsink. I don't really mind the noise from the fan when I play games as long as it's quiet in 2d. The gain in MHz doesn't seem to be that big anyway.

I'm planning to get a 30" lcd next summer so I need a new gfx card in any case...

[Monkeywoman]

i underclocked my ram cuz i'm running passive. i ordered a Scythe Slip Stream Kaze Jyuni 120MM Fan 1600RPM 88.1CFM 33DBA. its not in yet cuz its on back order. i'll look around for a spare 120 and try some ocing. im going to use ATI try tools cuz i can increase the core voltage if i hit a wall. my goal is 700/970.

[Monkeywoman]

here are my final clocks. beat this, http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t135/BigCharb/super.jpg

no voltage or bios mods. i'm stable with no artifaces in FEAR. i get 50 fps(average) with max everything 8xaa and 8xaf rez is 1440x1050. vsync on

[Xcel]

Only 963 on the mem, did you tighten the timings? should be 1ns after all which corresponds to 1GHz.
Nice core speed and temps :up:

[Monkeywoman]

i did nothing to the ram. how do i tighten them?

[Monkeywoman]

oooo i see, i got up to 999Mhz http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/fnhg2/ i think i'm happy. no need to keep pushing and blow her up

[Monkeywoman]

after a while of playing the system crashes. i lowered pci ex freq to 105 with same results. if i was to higher the gpu voltage, how high should i go?

[STEvil]

I ran mine at 1.52v which was enough for 730mhz on stock cooling. 65c loaded with BIOS flashed for more aggressive fan speed settings and higher default voltage and mhz.

[Monkeywoman]

after playing 2 hours of MAXXED OUT FEAR, at 702 core and 999mem with 1.425 gpucore i hit a max of 45 degrees (all fans on max approx 110db!!) i averaged 53 FPS online. my voltage regs were pulling 30.0 amps at 50+ degrees. i think i'm happy with my current voltages. i think the max of this card would be 1.6v
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/fnhg2/