8800 GT: OC experience?

[trigggl]

Might as well save electricity. That is real $.

That's what I'm thinking. There's the law of diminishing returns. No need to create more heat and burn more energy for minimal gain. I've down-clocked my 9800 GT and it does just fine on POEM. That card gets too hot for the level of performance you get out of it and they don't over-clock well anyway.

[Mad Matt]

None of my cards of this generation had voltage controls. If you have, that would be worth considering and go for some hefty undervolting. If these cards should use more than 50% of the TDP, I'd reserve OC for the big guns.

[Fire$torm]

That's what I'm thinking. There's the law of diminishing returns. No need to create more heat and burn more energy for minimal gain. I've down-clocked my 9800 GT and it does just fine on POEM. That card gets too hot for the level of performance you get out of it and they don't over-clock well anyway.

Is that was a stock cooler? My 88s with the Zalman VF1000 @705 OC always ran cooler then my stock 4850s did near stock clocks.

[trigggl]

Is that was a stock cooler? My 88s with the Zalman VF1000 @705 OC always ran cooler then my stock 4850s did near stock clocks.

Affirmative, that ridiculous "cooler" is still on it.