Ati radeon x1600 gddr3 comparison and overclock

[piyush chavla]

hi
I have a ati radeon x1600 with just basic manufacturer cooling. Now i am looking for overclocking but my friend said this card is not good enough to overclock comparing to other cards like x1300. so can any one tell me that can i overclock my card also do i need to install special cooler in order to overclock my card.

Thank you

[David23]

If you compare Radeon X1300 Pro and Radeon X1600 XT Physically both cards are so very close, the PCB is roughly the same. Red and PCI-Express cards are single-slot and require no electrical connection. The cooling system employed by ATI is made of a copper covering the VPU, and topped with a radiator, itself complemented by a turbine fan. The description is eloquent enough to understand all that is particularly noisy, unfortunately the same like as Radeon X700 XT.

[Birdie]

The Radeon X1300 and X1600 are not yet fully supported by the usual tools for overclocking. Try to overclock with with a beta version 9 ATITool or higher Regarding the Radeon X1300 Pro it could reach without too many problems the 675 MHz frequency VPU original against a frequency of 600 MHz an increase of 12%. However overclocking the memory has not worked at all the lower frequency exceeding 400 MHz resulting in a crash of ATITool. The Radeon X1600 XT is more likely to exercise and here you can smoothly pass the VPU 590 to 670 MHz increase of 13%, while i have been able to raise the memory frequency of 35 MHz . Suddenly, the memory bandwidth increases, the gain provided by the overclocking is much more interesting than the X1300 Pro

[Zindin]

The 3D Mark 2005 score rises from 4169 to 4757, which corresponds to a very nice increase of 14%. There are gains in the best games 17% in Doom III and 19% in FEAR and so much more! These benefits correct overclocking do not forget to make the scores too low in games