Overclocking the Parhelia? Not possible yet?

[Sampsa]

Hello,

I'll receive the Parhelia tomorrow and I have couple of days to play around with it. I'm writing a review of it and I haven't been able to find any software for overclocking the Parhelia.

I saw on the MURC front page that there should be option to overclock Parhelia in the second release of MTS tweak utility but I think it hasn't been released yet

Are there any other methods to overclock?

[Ant]

Not unless you want to hack the BIOS PINS like I do I've a posted little data <a href="http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34871">here</a> and <a href="http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34913">here</a>.

[Sampsa]

Originally posted by Ant
Not unless you want to hack the BIOS PINS like I do I've a posted little data <a href="http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34871">here</a> and <a href="http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34913">here</a>.

Well done! Where could I find instrucions how to flash Parhelia bios and tools for that? Also some tips for how to change to clock frequencies into bios-file would be more than welcome.

Even better. Can you provide the bios file which already has little overclocked clock speeds? I'm new with parhelia but I think with default cooling GPU should run 230 - 240MHz and Memory near 300MHz?

[P5ycho]

I wouldn't take taht risk if i was you... what if you happen to have a mediocre chip?

[Ant]

kaboom!

[Sampsa]

Well that's only money.

So where are those instructions?

[yepitsme]

who's money Sampsa ? tsk tsk

[dZeus]

Your own money?

It's a nice side-effect of being unable to flash the PINs back to default value after destroying the card.. it's easy to notice for Matrox

[Sampsa]

Well, I'm not actually aiming to the top overclock results but if it's possible to raise the GPU and Memory clock with a couple of MHz just by flashing the new bios... it shouldn't be too hard and there aren't much changes to burn your card if it's done correctly.

[P5ycho]

But not for the local distributor

Originally posted by dZeus
it's easy to notice for Matrox

[Edward]

Well, all Parhelia owners, email entechtaiwan, they said they'll support the parhelia if they get enough demand! I want to oc !

[cal]

entechtaiwan





how is the parhelia handling an o/c agp bus?


thanks
cal




"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?" Marilyn Pittman.

[Greebe]

Until Matrox hands over the information Ashley won't be able to include a P OC util to PS.

[Sampsa]

Doh, the parhelia arrives today :P

[Tempest]

Sampsa is the admin of one of Finlands leading hardware sites (and he's often seen at MadOnion's Fastest Webmasters list) so I think he know what he is doing. If you know of any benchmarks that will show the power of Parhelia, feel free to suggest them... Otherwise he'll just use 3DMark