9600Pro overclocking

[DuraN]

Hi guys

Im just wondering if anyone else has this problem with their Radeon card, or if its just my Sapphire R9600Pro:

Whenever i OC like 3-5mhz on the core in PStrip, the screen gets all marbled and i get dots all over and its impossible to read text. I wont show i screenshot because the only way i can make this go away is by reinstalling everything related to the gfx like pstrip, rage3d tweak and so on.

Im now using the Redline utility by Sapphire and i have no problems. But i need pstrip to cheat with the gamma in cs :)

[L0$t Pr0PhEt]

same here, I also use Redline, should you get better performance with powerstrip or is that the same?

[DuraN]

Dunno. Havent tested since pstrip marbles my screen and freezes 3dmark even if i overclock 1 mhz :D

[kromosto]

can it be because of locked bios for oc

[DuraN]

Perhaps. Now Redline wont let me oc, its locked at 400/300 mhz. Maybe i should bios flash my card with ATi's standard BIOS

[L0$t Pr0PhEt]

I have my card for 2 months now and Redline always works to oc.

[DuraN]

hmm. thats wierd. Because my Redline seems to have maxed out now, but its at stock speed... I reinstalled the drivers, and now i cant oc.. Ill try to update to cat 3.6. have been using cat 3.5 for a while.

btw lost prophet, you have a similar system to me, i also have a 1800+ DUT3C, nf7-s.. But i have twinmos PC3700 though. is 12009 your best with your R9600pro ?

[DuraN]

Now using cat 3.6 but still, sliders are locked. What version of RedLine and catalyst drivers are you using Lost Prophet? Im gonna try to flash the BIOS soon.

[freeloader]

I have the "Built by ATI" 9600Pro card and don't have any problems using powerstrip or Radclocker.

BTW...on straight aircooling (stock) I can do 515 mhz core and 310mhz ram. My ram is Samsung 3.3ns and it won't go any higher :(.

Decent card for the price. I paid 219 CDN.