Sapphire Ultimate X1950 Pro 256mb PCI-E
Overclocking
Published: 3rd April 2007 | Source: Sapphire | Price: |
Equipped with a Zalman all-coper cooler and heatsinked memory IC's, the Sapphire X1950Pro ULTIMATE is certainly "kitted out" for some serious overclocking.
As the memory on the card is already overclocked to 1600mhz we were unable to perform any additional overclocking using ATI's Catalyst control panel, however installing the latest version of ATITool gave us the neccesary options to try and push things a little further.
Unfortunately even our best efforts couldn't take the cards memory past it's stock speed of 1593mhz. Maybe this is a limitation of the card or possibly even a problem with ATITool and the X1950Pro series. If you have any ideas be sure to let us know in our forums.
We didn't leave totally empty handed however, and successfuly managed to obtain a 53mhz overclock on the core. Some quick benchmarks of the card running at 634mhz / 1600mhz can be seen below.
We didn't leave totally empty handed however, and successfuly managed to obtain a 53mhz overclock on the core. Some quick benchmarks of the card running at 634mhz / 1600mhz can be seen below.
Overclocking the card showed a small improvement in both the Quake 4 and Counter-Strike:Source scores, with the latter showing the largest performance increase of 12fps when running at 1024x768.
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nice review,looks to be a cracking card with an impressive price tag to boot
Looks good. One last ditch dx9 card before R600 rapes many, many psus?
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Looks good. One last ditch dx9 card before R600 rapes many, many psus?
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I think the overclocking problems are because of Ati Tool, from the Ati Tool site "All NVIDIA and ATI cards except for Radeon X1950 Pro are supported in this release." The source.
Nice little read, i think i will be heading back over to ATi once there DX10 range is out.
Nothing has felt quite as good as my old x800xt pe :/
Nothing has felt quite as good as my old x800xt pe :/
Actually my 6800GT was a legendary card and the best I've felt with an nVidia card ever I think
I just recently got this card and I currently have the GPU overclocked to 641 and the memory overclocked to 844 and it runs stable. If you use atitool, you have to check the driver level overclocking box in order to overclock the memory. Works great, got a 3Dmark05 score of 10520 on my system. Not too bad considering my weak 4000+ single core processor.
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Originally Posted by name='Pred'
I just recently got this card and I currently have the GPU overclocked to 641 and the memory overclocked to 844 and it runs stable. If you use atitool, you have to check the driver level overclocking box in order to overclock the memory. Works great, got a 3Dmark05 score of 10520 on my system. Not too bad considering my weak 4000+ single core processor.
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Welcome to the forums btw
Glad to be here. I was wondering though... has anyone else been successful at overclocking the memory? From all the forums I've read and reviews, I can't find anyone that's gotten it past 800. I know it's possible, obviously, since I did it.
One other interesting thing to note about the card: I received a model that is obviously a new batch. The heatsink on the end of the card is no longer a gold color and no longer has the "S" on it, it's colored silver now. It also had their latest May release bios on it, which surprised me because the bios was only released about a week and a half or so before I bought the card.
One other interesting thing to note about the card: I received a model that is obviously a new batch. The heatsink on the end of the card is no longer a gold color and no longer has the "S" on it, it's colored silver now. It also had their latest May release bios on it, which surprised me because the bios was only released about a week and a half or so before I bought the card.
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