5900 XT

[criscoduck]

Recently purchased this card for not so much cash and Im pretty happy with it. I ran futuremark and found out Im getting stomped by a lot of people who look like they are OC'ing this card. Mine clocks in at 702mhz for my clock speed. This is a stock setting yet I see people stomping my performace with a clock speed of 834mhz with this chipset.

I picked up the LeadTek version btw.

Ive always been very... well afraid... of overclocking my stuff. But if I can pick up some FPS and still keep the card stable and smooth I may be willing to try.

Can this be done safely? Would I need to pickup additional cooling for my video? And finally, how easy is this to do?

[rugbydude]

Download the latest drivers from nvidia, on the advanced preferences you will find an overclocking option. From here you can safely overclock your card but remember: increase in small increments at a time, if you start seeing visual artifacts you have gone to far, and better safe than sorry don't go too far :thumb:

[Theberkin8or]

the 5900xt is really a 5900 chip so you sould be able to oc farly far without to much trouble man (becuase you are just taking the chip to its real speed) btw i think you were talking about the ram speed cuz i certianly haven't heard of a xt @ 700 mhz

[criscoduck]

I do have the latest drivers from nvidia... but Im not seeing an overclocking option anywhere... hmm

[Classlessmetal]

dowload a prog called coolbits it opens up some more options in the advanced section

[criscoduck]

roger, ill check it out.. thanks

[Easy]

Try to flash your bios into a 5900NU, it works for. I have club3d 5900xt@5900NU clocked@ 500/920 8) . And it still is running stable.


i used the xfx5900Nu bios and flashed it with wfflash.

You can get the bios from www.mvktch.net.