Overclocking Noob

[The Berzerker]

Hello. I bought a Hightech Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB iceq video card because as
I understood it, the huge fan was brilliant at keeping the board cool, and
thus making it the perfect card for overclocking. Problem is, I know nothing
about overclocking...

I'm not going to flash the BIOS because it just seems too final. So I
decided to overclock the card softwarewise. I tried to use the Rage3D tweak
tool, and increased the clockspeeds. I found a website that listed the
9800XTs speeds as 412Mhz core and 365Mhz memory, so that's exactly what I
set my 9800 pro to.... but I see no difference at all. I'm a little short
for benchmarking tools, but the doom3 timedemo didn't show an increase
whatsoever. Did I do something wrong? How important is it to flash the cards
bios (to a 9800xt) in terms of performance? I figured matching its clock
speed would at least be a start. But no difference at all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks, Chris.

 

[Sleepy]

Hello. I bought a Hightech Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB iceq video card because as
I understood it, the huge fan was brilliant at keeping the board cool, and
thus making it the perfect card for overclocking. Problem is, I know nothing
about overclocking...

I'm not going to flash the BIOS because it just seems too final. So I
decided to overclock the card softwarewise. I tried to use the Rage3D tweak
tool, and increased the clockspeeds. I found a website that listed the
9800XTs speeds as 412Mhz core and 365Mhz memory, so that's exactly what I
set my 9800 pro to.... but I see no difference at all. I'm a little short
for benchmarking tools, but the doom3 timedemo didn't show an increase
whatsoever. Did I do something wrong? How important is it to flash the cards
bios (to a 9800xt) in terms of performance? I figured matching its clock
speed would at least be a start. But no difference at all?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks, Chris.

try this http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ and I run my card 20mhz below
the limits it set to be safe.

 

[Avid Gamer]

The 9800 is a low end card, overclokcing wont do much these days with
the likes of Doom 3 and games like that that need more POWER.

Well thats what i think, iam getting an X800 Pro Instead

 

[J. Clarke]

The 9800 is a low end card,

Hardly. It's previous-generation but it's hardly low-end.

 

[Aussie]

The 9800 is a low end card, overclokcing wont do much these days with
the likes of Doom 3 and games like that that need more POWER.

Instead of giving advice just say, I GOT NO IDEA OF WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT.
May i ask , which part of the planet you'r from ??