Whats an Average Overclock of a Stock R9700 Pro?

[Kunaak]

I am just wondering, cause I see in reviews people getting 400 mhz and more with stock 9700's.
but I can't even get 360 out of mine, before it craps out.
I can get 370, but then the nature test in 3dmark goes haywire.

I am just wondering, cause I am about to Vmod my 9700, but I am wondering if it's even gonna help.

I am modifying it and taking the heatsink off to cool it with a peltier and 1/2 inch cooling.

I'd like to be able to reach 400 and higher, but I am wondering if I just got a lemon of a card and may not even do much after the Vmod.

[ryanpgroovy]

350 mem with no cooling

[shortcircuit]

on the core mine only went 350mhz with stock cooling. I didn't see much of a difference with AS3. With a volt-mod, pelt and watercooling it maxed out around 430mhz. the memory wouldn't go past 330 without ramsinks. with ramsinks the memory maxes out at 372.

[zippyc]

Water cooling my GPU with cool H2O (15C) and airsinks on the RAM (both sides) produced almost identical results to shortcircuit's.

430.07/379.93 were my top speeds without jaggies for my built by ATI 9700 Pro, with v-modded memory and GPU. This was with my case open and good air circulation with ambient of 22.8C.

[Charles Wirth]

360/330 seems like the average stock overclock and many card fail with the AGP a tad over stock.