need help overclocking my video card

me and my dad are tryin to oc my XFX 6600 GT 128 Mb Agp video card.
so far we've gotten it to a frequency of 561/1014, and we were wonderin if it could go higher than that.so does any1 know if it can?thnx!
running:
lanparty nf3 250Gb mobo

Amd athalon 64 procesor 3000

1Gb kingston value ramm cas latency 2.5

480 watt power supply

36 Gb raptor hard drive

 

Get an Nv Silencer for round 30$ odd.

 

actually, loads of people have had problems with the NV Silencers so i would suggest a Zalman VF700-CU Quiet Copper VGA Cooler, their cooling is very good and they are also not as loud as the NV Silencer 6.

Here u can compare them:

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=62

http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=149&code=013

 

loads of ppl? never heard any problems with the nvs5.

 

gruntville have it as the best vga cooler you can buy,alot of articles I have read about unlocking the pipes on a 6800 and tryin to get it as fast as a GT all use it

http://www.gruntville.com/kingofthehill.php

 

that might well be but he needs one for a 6600 not 6800, they are different coolers... ive just heard and read that people are having problems to fit them on some of their cards because they dont fit correctly. there are also issues with cards that use thermalpads instead of paste and therefore there was a gap between the cooler and the ram and gpu not allowing any contact afterwards. this is why i suggest the zalman solution.. which also has more options

 

I never stated a # for the silencer, I just said get an NV silencer, also the main website provides a sheet in where you can see which one fits your vid card or not. Havn't seen video cards that use thermal tape for the core.
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well i got my card at 570/1014 and me and my dad think it could go higher. my card doesnt seem to have problems so back to the same question can it go higher cause its doesnt seem to even break a sweat at this point and i read an overclocking reveiw from auphaun online that they got it to 580/1265 without any problems and im wondering if i can get mine that high?

 

Don't feed your video card drugs http://forums.majorgeeks.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

It all depends on airflow, how correctly YOUR card has thermalpaste and the heatsink attached; I mean if you think about it no MFG would send a crappy / untested card toa review website, they do some "prep" work and hand pick what they're giving as a review http://forums.majorgeeks.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

 

I have my FX5900XT @ 495/950 with no problems. I really don't know about the 6600, but if you can afford a new card, then by all means crank that baby up.

I will vouch for the Zalman heatpipes though. I have a ZM-80 on a Ti4200 in another machine & it works great.

 

My idle system temps. Room temp 75.2f - 24c. All air-cooled. Dont change much from that after a few hours of CoD or what have ya.