Quote Originally Posted by cantankerous
I have noticed this with both my XL and XT x1800 card. 01 for whatever reason is much harder on the card than any of the other 2 3dmarks, aquamark or even games for that matter. I can play games for hours, loop 3dmark03 and 05 for hours without issue however 01 will crash to desktop before too long if I really start to push it. I found on my XL if I just gave an ever so slight bump in volts 01 too would loop for hours on end without issue. Heat is a big issue for me on my XT card which it hitting into the 80's c without much work so raising volts is not an option. I was raising clocks through the overdrive tab in CCC and set them to 690/800 (max) and that would run through any 3dmarks, aquamark and games np but 01 would crash to desktop. The only way to get 01 to loop for hours on end was to lower the core down to about 680 (675 actual). I did this today and was finally able to loop 01 over and over with no title screens between tests for a good 4+ hours. I wish the card didn't get so hot as I would really like to start pushing it more. 675/800(792) is not bad though and nets me nearly 9.6k in 05. I finally beat FEAR on this card today and the ending never played so smooth.


this is standard behavior of all new cores from ati!!

I have same problem with x1300, 3dmark05 and 03 are less demanding that 3dmark01!!
PS. nice clocks I will have to push my card to 3GHz to catch you preformance