Nvidia 8500/8600 Series Overclocking and Feedback thread

Solaris17 · Jan 24, 2008

hmmm i got a bunch last year b4 i graduated from my robotics class and my bud was holding them...but alot of mom and pop pc shops.....not like frys or whatever carrythem around here..you might actually be lucky enough to find them a circuit city or marshells and walmart some times carrys random resistors...your looking for inbetween 20 and 50 ohms

BrooksyX · Jan 24, 2008

I know radio shack has tons of resistors. I think there pretty cheap too.

quadomatic · Jan 27, 2008

Which 8600 GT (vendor) do you guys recommend I buy for getting the best speeds with voltmod and OC'ing? What speeds can I expect? What kind of performance can I expect in Crysis with these speeds?

Thanks

Solaris17 · Jan 27, 2008

8600 from evga or xfx would prob be your best bet...if you look at my mod guide though in my sig you can see whats up about the speeds.....with the resistors im going to get i can push 1ghz core with a really good core etc...also if your into extreme volt mods my mod guide shows a couple of company's you can do that with.

quadomatic · Jan 27, 2008

Solaris17 said:
8600 from evga or xfx would prob be your best bet...if you look at my mod guide though in my sig you can see whats up about the speeds.....with the resistors im going to get i can push 1ghz core with a really good core etc...also if your into extreme volt mods my mod guide shows a couple of company's you can do that with.

Some people mentioned the Palit and the Inno3D. Do you think with the eVGA or XFX 8600GT I can get 900mhz Core and 2000mhz Mem?

Also, would I need to replace the cooler? Would an Accelero S2 work? There are 2 MSI 8600GTs on Newegg; one with a heatpipe cooler and one with a Zalman. Would replacing the cooler with an Accelero S2 get me a better OC?

Would I near HD3850 performance with the volt mod and OC to 900mhz Core and 2000mhz mem?

What kind of performance could I expect in crysis with voltmod and oc?

BrooksyX · Jan 27, 2008

If I were you I would just spend the extra on a 3850. Im regretting that I got the 8600gt, its worth spending the extra $50 for the 3850 and plus it is a lore more future proof so it will save you money when you don't have to upgrade in a year.

hercules71185 · Jan 27, 2008

BrooksyX said:
If I were you I would just spend the extra on a 3850. Im regretting that I got the 8600gt, its worth spending the extra $50 for the 3850 and plus it is a lore more future proof so it will save you money when you don't have to upgrade in a year.

vmodding helps a bit, but, its not like a new card. YES get the 3850 over it. To vmod you spend 30 on the cooling system like fans or whatever you choose. I upgraded for the same reason. vmodding just helps like 10% max. the 3850 is double the speed. So its smarter.

strmchaasr · Mar 2, 2008

Hi, Im new here, I noticed there is virtually no talk of PNY 8600GT cards. I just picked one up for my new quad core computer Dull Inspiron 530 for less than 70$ at a well known brick and mortar store. Seems to run well at stock has a 3D Mark 06 score of 4758. Any reason PNY is neglected

wolf · Mar 2, 2008

nah theyre a decent brand, start over clocking that baby to really see her fly!

i've easily gotten 20%+ more performance out of my 8600GT's thru overclocking, and writing an overclocked bios

Solaris17 · Mar 2, 2008

xfx and other brands like evga are more popular and after i wrote my mod guide ppl realized their isnt a diff between the brands so no card card was targeted as the best because with moddification all cards are equal.

strmchaasr · Mar 2, 2008

Thanks for the input I really appreciate it. I will attempt the overclock, when I upgrade the lousy 350 Watt Power supply that came with the system. I dont think it will be able to handle the overclock, unless you folks think differently.

wolf · Mar 2, 2008

well an 8600GT doesnt require more power than the pci express slot itself can give.....

to be honest a good psu is always a good move, but in your shoes, i would install rivatuner and start overclocking now.... bust just cos i would do it, doesn't mean its the right thing

mlee49 · Mar 8, 2008

Check this out! Sweet oc on the card w/mild oc on the cpu! :rockout:

Solaris17 · Mar 8, 2008

Thats pretty impressive bud most deff keep it up!!

mlee49 · Mar 8, 2008

yeah I wanna push the CPU to at least 3GHz, I'll need to tweak my cooling options.

Solaris17 · Mar 8, 2008

go for it dude lap the cooler reapply paste and push you have to beat my epic 8400pts

strmchaasr · Mar 9, 2008

I thought I would go ahead an try to oveerclock my 8600gt with stock 350 psu. I can do up to about 580gpu and and 1300 shader, Stock is 540 and 1180. Anything more and my screen locks up on 3dMark06 test. As it stands the base card score was 4758 and oc was 4989 meager improvement. My temperature during the tests didnt push more than about 58C. Idle temperature was 55C after slight tweak and fan setting of 100% idle temp was 49C

Im extremly green with this stuff anyways

Solaris17 · Mar 9, 2008

ya that would be your psu holding you back if you get a better one though youll be able to push alot farther.

HeUeR · Mar 9, 2008

Hello! Its been long time i have been here

Sorry for bad english

So somebody have 8600GT from Gigabyte with Heatpipe II technology!?

Hmz my oc is limited, because when shader klock cross "line" i cant run tests ! HMzz what you can tell me !?

Solaris17 · Mar 9, 2008

with a volt mod the stable oc is suually 820/1725/1000

Scrizz · Apr 17, 2008

lol I can't belive I didn't post this here....

here are some pics of the card:
srry about the quality(cell phone cam)

wolf · Apr 18, 2008

noice, cracked 7000!

jbruneau · May 3, 2008

I managed to push my graphics card, to get that little extra performance boost, before resorting to the ever expensive system upgrade

!

I haven't OC'd my GPU since back in the 6800GT AGP days, *rofl*! I didn't do too bad on stock, but ran out of headroom very very fast. After changing to the Sytrin KuFormula VF1 Plus things are really looking up! Managed to get it up to 775 Core / 1135 Mem / 1637 Shaders. I have an AC Accelero S1 and Turbo Module here that I want to try against the Sytrin, some time....I am using ATITool to OC and test for artifacts, along with 3DMark06 as a stablilty test.

GPU-Z -- http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/6r9gz/
3DMark06 -- http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=6384362
PCMark05 -- http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm05=1504105

Small OC on the CPU going on as well, Opteron 170 (200x10 Stock) to 250x10. I had the system running 280x10 in my old DFI LanParty UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert but I changed it out for the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe. Can't keep the same OC on this board.

Too lazy and not enough time to figure out if its the CPU holding it back or a memory alpha timing.

Oh, BTW, No volt mods here

Wyshniukas · May 31, 2008

ASUS EN8500GT SILENT/HTD/256M/DDR2
Original HS was replaced with Zalman VF900-CU cooler.
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/gfvzq/ - OC'ed 750/500/1500

mlee49 · Jun 1, 2008

Wyshniukas said:
ASUS EN8500GT SILENT/HTD/256M/DDR2
Original HS was replaced with Zalman VF900-CU cooler.
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/gfvzq/ - OC'ed 750/500/1500

Nice oc, but does it bench? Lay down some 3d06 and some Aquamark scores and post'em scores!

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Case	Xigmatek Asgard II / APEX PC-389-C
Power Supply	Rosewill 750w / Antec EArthwatts 380w
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Case	$5 Banged up piece o' shit from TigerDirect liquidation center
Audio Device(s)	Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Power Supply	hec ORION 585Watt PSU
Software	Vista Ultimate x64

System Name	Rocinante
Processor	I9 14900KS
Motherboard	EVGA z690 Dark KINGPIN (modded BIOS)
Cooling	EK-AIO Elite 360 D-RGB
Memory	64GB Gskill Trident Z5 DDR5 6000 @6400
Video Card(s)	MSI SUPRIM Liquid X 4090
Storage	1x 500GB 980 Pro \| 1x 1TB 980 Pro \| 1x 8TB Corsair MP400
Display(s)	Odyssey OLED G9 G95SC
Case	Lian Li o11 Evo Dynamic White
Audio Device(s)	Moondrop S8's on Schiit Hel 2e
Power Supply	Bequiet! Power Pro 12 1500w
Mouse	Lamzu Atlantis mini (White)
Keyboard	Monsgeek M3 Lavender, Akko Crystal Blues
VR HMD	Quest 3
Software	Windows 11
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Memory	3 GB DDR2 (1GB HP 667mhz, 2GB Corsair Dominator, "Functionality Untested", $13 on ebay)
Video Card(s)	eVGA 9600GSO @ 741/1836/1053
Storage	Hitachi Deskstar 1TB SATA 3.0Gb/s
Display(s)	Big 'ol CRT
Case	$5 Banged up piece o' shit from TigerDirect liquidation center
Audio Device(s)	Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Power Supply	hec ORION 585Watt PSU
Software	Vista Ultimate x64

System Name	Thor
Processor	Intel i5 2500k @ 4.8
Motherboard	asrock z77 extreme 3 z77
Cooling	corsair h60
Memory	Kingston hyperx 8gb ddr3
Video Card(s)	Nvidia gtx 680
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Case	thermaltake Nvidia element V
Audio Device(s)	onboard THX 7.1
Power Supply	700 watt toughpower thermaltake
Software	everything
Benchmark Scores	13,000 3dmark05 108,000 aquamark3 haven't did many since I upgraded these were with my 8600gt :)

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Processor	6600 Quad Core 2.4 GHZ
Motherboard	Dull
Cooling	Stock
Memory	2GB 5400 DDR2
Video Card(s)	8600GT 540 700 1188 >> 580 710 1300
Storage	Maxtor sata II 320 GB
Case	dull case
Audio Device(s)	realtek HD
Power Supply	stock 350 max sustained 300
Software	vista
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Storage	WD Black SN850X 2TB
Display(s)	LG 42C2 4K OLED
Case	Coolermaster NR200P
Audio Device(s)	LG SN5Y / Focal Clear
Power Supply	Corsair SF750 Platinum
Mouse	Corsair Dark Core RBG Pro SE
Keyboard	Glorious GMMK Compact w/pudding
VR HMD	Meta Quest 3
Software	case populated with Artic P12's
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Case	Enermax Fulmo GT
Audio Device(s)	ON BOARD FTW
Power Supply	Corsair 1200W
Keyboard	Logitech G510
Software	Win 10 64x

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Motherboard	Giga-Byte GA-965P-S3
Cooling	TT BT + 120mm Fan
Memory	4x512Mb DDR2 OCZ Platinum Edition PC2 6400
Video Card(s)	nVidia XFX GeForce 8800GTX 768Mb GDDR3
Storage	WD 250GB 16Mb Sata II
Display(s)	LG Flatron L1952S
Power Supply	FSP Epsilon 700W

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Processor	Intel 13700k
Motherboard	Gigabyte z790 UD AC
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15
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