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sandness
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 Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:17 pm Post subject: XFX nVidia 6600 overclock |
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I just recently put together my new system with an XFX nVidia 6600- 256MB on PCI-Express for the video. Having run an old MX440 in my old system and not having much ability to overclock, this card blew me away
That's right- surprised the shat out of me. The memory could only squeeze out an extra 50MHz up from the 500MHz stock. The core on the other hand was able to do magic. I inched it up to 545MHz- 245MHz higher than the 300MHz stock setting. It amazed me how high it went. Worst part was, going up that much at 5Mhz increments with testing took forever. But I'm happy.
Here's some of the 3DMark #'s I've got:
Stock 300MHz core, 500MHz mem.
3DMark01SE - 13985
3DMark05 - 1734
OC'd 545MHz core, 550MHz mem.
3DMark01SE - 15126
3DMark05 - 2163
Other specs:
P4 550 3.4GHz LGA775
Intel 915PBX mobo 800MHz FSB
512MB dual channel Corsair ValueRAM 533MHz 4-4-4-12 |
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Sally
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:41 am Post subject: |
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How'd that thing run on AQUAMARK????
oh yeah, WHAT version of 3dMARK was it?
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sandness
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| Yo- the versions are listed beside the scores. Perhaps it was not obvious enough for you. Need to download Aquamark to give it a shot. |
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FreeTheRock [banned]
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| i get higher benches with a stock 9800pro and a crappy computer its not impressed me like how everyone was saying how good it was. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:54 am Post subject: |
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| FreeTheRock wrote: | | i get higher benches with a stock 9800pro and a crappy computer its not impressed me like how everyone was saying how good it was. |
Its the regular 6600 man, its not the 6600GT. If i'm not mistaken, Sally will be getting that. We should be able to see what it does soon.
That is a monstrous overclock on the core! Too bad the ram couldn't go any higher because that thing would smoke with some better ram.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:08 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, it is just a plain old 6600. I haven't given up on the ram yet, but I don't think she'll go much higher.
As for an Aquamark score, I just downloaded and ran Aquamark3 and got 46,345 at default settings. I've never used this benchmark before, so I dunno what to think. |
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Sally
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Actually I ended up getting a straight up 6600 and not the GT....partly due to a fuster-cluck in newegg's site and, of course, cost.
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cool cool. 46k in aquamark beats out my 9700pro and 2.5ghz amd. i think the most i got was about 38k. Thats looking pretty darn good for your system.
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sandness
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| Got it up a tad more- core at 560MHz and mem at 570MHz. This gave me a 3DMark01SE score of 15,326. Not a huge jump, but it's better. |
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Sweet OC there dude, Enjoy. Do you have the latest drivers installed? It may help up your scores a bit more if you haven't. Still tose scores are quite impressive, good job 
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wow....just wow on that OC...nice work indeed, have you tried any higher?
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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Nice oc! Try uping the AGP core to 1.6v. Don't go any higher and watch those temps, you should hopefully see a little higher overclock!!!
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| Well, I'd bump up my PCI-Express voltage if I could, but my Intel board has no such ability. I'll keep tweaking this thing- maybe even get a new vga cooler when I find a good one that covers the ram too (these cards are nice- all ram on the front side, so no rear cooling to worry about). I plan on posting up some pics of my new rig in the case gallery when I get a chance. I took some of my build process, but they are loaded onto the computer back at home (I'm at college). |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Enjoy your new card sandness!! |
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sandness
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Xal wrote: | | Sweet OC there dude, Enjoy. Do you have the latest drivers installed? It may help up your scores a bit more if you haven't. Still tose scores are quite impressive, good job |
I just installed the latest drivers- however in doing so, I lost the abiltiy to adjust core and memory speeds. I think I will roll back to driver I was using originally. But thanks for the tip though. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| sandness wrote: | | Well, I'd bump up my PCI-Express voltage if I could, but my Intel board has no such ability. I'll keep tweaking this thing- maybe even get a new vga cooler when I find a good one that covers the ram too (these cards are nice- all ram on the front side, so no rear cooling to worry about). I plan on posting up some pics of my new rig in the case gallery when I get a chance. I took some of my build process, but they are loaded onto the computer back at home (I'm at college). |
Whooops! Dumbass alert (me)! Sorry, I was completely dumb for saying that! I read your thread and did notice that you were running PCIe and by the time I hit the Reply to thread button I forgot and went on to waffle about AGP.
Jeez, sorry about that and ignore it. I don't even know if you can up the voltage on PCIe at all - never used one.
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Copy and paste the following into a .txt file
then rename it to coolbits.reg
then double click and click yes to add to registry
REGEDIT4
; =======================
; Coolbits 2
; >> Installation File
; =======================
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
"NvCplExposeWin2kDualView"=dword:00000001
"NvCplTvLocaleAutoDetect"=dword:00000001
"NvCplAllowForceTVDetection"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableActiveApp"=dword:00000001
"DisableApplyColorsAtStartup"=dword:00000000
"NoMenus"=dword:00000000
"OverlayPageState"=dword:00000000
"CinematicPageState"=dword:000000ff
"NvCplThermalSettings"=dword:00000020
"NvCplEnableScreenMenuPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplCustomResConfig"=dword:00000000
"NvCplEnableAdditionalInfoPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplDisablePerfQualPage"=hex:00,00,00,00
"NvCplEnableAGPSettingsPage"=dword:00000001
"CoolBits"=dword:ffffffff
"NvCplEnableOverlaySpanControl"=dword:00000001
"TwinViewCapsOverride"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableDesktopOverlapPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableTroubleshootingPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplDisableRefreshRatePage"=dword:00000000
"NvCplDisableRotateAngles"=dword:00000000
"NoPages"=dword:00000000
"NvCplEnableClearViewPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableFanControl"=dword:00000003
"NvCplEnableFrameSyncPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableHardwarePage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnablenForcePage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnablePwrMzrOnDesktopMenu"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableRotationColorSettings"=dword:00000001
"NvCplNvThermPage"=dword:00000001
"PowermizerPreferences"=dword:00000000
"QTwkEnableModeChangeWarning"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\OpenGL]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\OpenGL\Debug]
"ShaderObjects"=dword:00000001
and that will give you the OCing option in your display properties + some other goodness
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| sandness wrote: | | Well, I'd bump up my PCI-Express voltage if I could, but my Intel board has no such ability. I'll keep tweaking this thing- maybe even get a new vga cooler when I find a good one that covers the ram too (these cards are nice- all ram on the front side, so no rear cooling to worry about). I plan on posting up some pics of my new rig in the case gallery when I get a chance. I took some of my build process, but they are loaded onto the computer back at home (I'm at college). |
Methinks better cooling won't get much more out of the ram. A voltmod or bios flash to raise the memory timings might. . . although you probably don't want to make that card a test dummy just yet. I say enjoy it as it is. Let us know if it plays halo any better or looks prettier.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks Xal- editing my reg will be a lot quicker than reinstalling the card software- as the overclocking option is now gone even with the rolled back drivers. I think it has plateaued as far as oc'ing for the time being. |
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| Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| sandness wrote: | | Thanks Xal- editing my reg will be a lot quicker than reinstalling the card software- as the overclocking option is now gone even with the rolled back drivers. I think it has plateaued as far as oc'ing for the time being. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:17 am Post subject: |
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No problem 
Try OCing again on the new drivers and give us your results
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sandness
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| Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:20 am Post subject: |
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Got the latest nVidia drivers- seemed to help a bit. My oc'ing #'s didn't really change, but scores improved.
Core - 550
Mem - 550
3DMark01 - 15222
3DMark03 - 6310
3DMark05 - 2606
AquaMark03 - 47013
I think I am going to search for a better cooler for the video and it's memory. I turned all my case fans down to the lowest speed setting and saw scores drop as the heat built up. Worst one was the 3DMark01- it dropped down to 12500 ish. So better card cooling couldn't hurt. |
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Xal
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| Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:57 am Post subject: |
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Thought it might. Better cooling is always a good idea, even if it does not help your OCing its healthier for your componenents. If you have the $ then go for it
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Great OC :) :)
Keep it up!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:30 am Post subject: |
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Great OC :) :)
Keep it up!
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