i have a MSI ATI radeon x800 pro SE

ive heard a lot of ppl use ati tool to overclock

any one give me any tips on how ATI tool works?

i know nothing of overclocking, i believe its a case of trial and error but hey what do i know

Use the ATI tool to increase the memory and core clock speeds, I'd suggest maybe increasing them by 20 at a time then running something like 3DMark to stress test it. I'm not sure whether ATI tool shows you the temperature on your card, if it doesn't u may want to find a tool that does.

Basically keep pushing the card till you start to see sparkling or artificating in 3DMark.

n1, cheers m8y

if u want to go hardcore u can find out what memory it has and see if you can flash the bios on it i did and my x800pro VIVO now thinks it's an x800xt pe needed to be watercooled to keep it nice and stable tho :/

yeah always a problem with overclocking

you needs COOOLING COOLING AND EVEN MORE COOLING.

if everyone had liquid nitrogen cooling we could all OC our machines to the bolocks

recently some dude overclocked a 3.2Ghz p4 to 6.1Ghz and last i heard had it stable in Bios, and Stable in Linux (for some silly reason WinXP wouldent install )

Sure you can with WinXP! You just need to buy the $799 software addon to support the setup *rimshot*
*wanders off spitting in Bill Gate's general direction... would p*ss on him if he didn't support so many charities... grumble..*

That's cause he's a nur nur like my brother. He has Aspergus syndrome.

How do you over clock?

Do you need a powerful gfx card?

and..

How much can you overclock before you need to have cooling fitted?

you can overclock almost any gfx card, processor, or memory.. hell you can even overclock a sound card if you realy wanted (whats the point it'd probably **** your sound field)

i found that i could OC my old machine about 10% over the standrd with out any extra cooling... more cooling is needed for better results and sustained periods.

you can use a variarty of ways. Hardware.. you tinker with some resisters and capacitors and increase your performance that way.. or you can use a software program which hacks the firmware and increases the fsb, power, and other stuff... takes a while to figure the best OC setup for any given component and some components can only be over clocked a little without lots of cooling... Corsair memory, AMD processors and ATI cards are fav's for people to OC

toms hardwear has some guides on overclocking.. and tools can be found using google.... as well as other peoples comments and recomendations

This is all way past me tbh, i would look into it more but im afraid of blowing my whole pc up, plus im not too kean on buying a new case just so i can add cooling, so i guess if i do OC i will only OC to a certain extent, unless i come into some kind of fortune and can afford to add like nitrogen liquid cooling, (or just some fans), lol.