How much do you trust ATITool?

[sersalpha]

I've noticed that some people in the forums "back off" the speeds discovered via Find Max Core and Find Max Mem for stability's sake. I'm curious as to how many people do this. After passing 7200 seconds of artifact testing, I stick with a core and mem speed combination.

[foreignkid]

Great idea for a poll...

[Trimm]

I do it manually. But i still back off a few mhz. just to be safe. You never know when Doom III will tress the GPU too much.

[15th Warlock]

I get 440-450 with atitool, but I keep my card at the default 412 clock :p

[Cynips]

On my Visiontek Xstasy x800 Pro I got something like core 565/mem 573 (2.0ns) last time I did the find max but can't say I'd run those speeds feeling relaxed. Especially when you consider temp and playing Doom 3. I DO have an Arctic Silencer 4, though, which seems to keep temps below 70 at those settings. I tend to run 550/565 max but usually 530/550 to be safe. I recently had a serious problem which I first was due to a broken card, so I got a little less aggressive than before...

[zealot`grr]

voted #1

[Quazi]

Ususally, I'll watch the 3D box until I see artifacts. When I see artifacts, I notice ATITool backs the clock speed down to the last clock that it used and didn't have artifacts. So I figure it's back off for me and I use what it tells me I can use. Then, I go beyond that point by 5MHz because the games I play isn't as intensive as the 3D box in ATITool. So far no problems.

[kRaZeD]

i find the max, then back it off a little. Still one night i got 310mhz on the core and 300mhz on my ram. this is for 250mhz (max) rated ram by the way :D