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Originally posted by daos
bmg,
do you see that around 486 is the limit of this core? reason i ask is because my core will do 470 with stock voltages and stock cooling. i was hoping for atleast around 500 core with volt mod. my memory does 400 without a hiccup. i would volt mod the board, but if for only 16mhz, i dont think its worth it.
TIA, daos
I'm not necessarily a good person to answer this, as I'm more of a gamer than a bencher. That said, with room temp water cooling my 9800XT is artifact free at 493 core and 1.82V (1.77-1.78V is stock). If you're artifact free (3DMark03 nature water is a good check) at 470 with stock cooling and voltage that seems pretty good to me, as I couldn't get above 445 under those conditions. You might want to ask the question on the overclocking forum where it'll be seen by more of the hard core overclockers.