BowtieNinja Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 How high should I? I have about a 45celcius ambient case temp, I don't know what temp my GeForce is running at, but it's got 4 PCI slots between it and the nearest component, so it's got lots of room to breath. I want to put it at 290-300 core and 565-590 memory, which Gainward's program has in the yellow part of their little meter, so I don't think I should have any problems, but I've never done it before so I wanted to run it by someone who knows what they're doing first. Gainward's program is incredibly simple, so I know how, just wondering if I should. Danke' Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Do you really have a need to overclock it? Why do you want to overclock it? Do you run super high quaility details in games with a high resolution? Or do you just want bragging rights? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowtieNinja Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Bragging rights mainly. I only got a 7280 3DMark2001 score too, it should be a lot higher than that. I was expecting between 8,500 and 9,000. I'm gonna do some bios tweaking, but I want to overclock my video card and rub it in my PC fanboy friend's face that I've got a better PC. :-p He's still stuck with a TBird 1.0 Ghz and a GF3 Ti200 Golden Sample, so you can see how much more room for rubbing there could potentially be. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted June 6, 2002 Posted June 6, 2002 Only on this site lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowtieNinja Posted June 7, 2002 Posted June 7, 2002 Aright, here's what happened. I overclocked it in spurts of 5 Mhz to 300/575 and it seemed to work right, then I tried 3DMark, the FPS wasn't any higher, and it froze on the second movie (Dragothic) twice, so I reset, it booted windows again, and everything was all weird lookin'. So I think "Ok, guess I went to high" I boot windows again, and then the Core/Memory was back at default. *shrugs* Any idea's? Should I just leave well enough be? Or try again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted June 7, 2002 Posted June 7, 2002 Try increasing in smaller amounts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowtieNinja Posted June 8, 2002 Posted June 8, 2002 Grr! I'm disapointed. I can't get this thing over 280 without it screwing up in 3DMark, it boots windows without crashing, but when I run 3DMark it goes crazy. I got my 3Dmark scores up to 7,800, and beat the average GeForce 3 Ti500 marks with my proccessor, (or so Madonion tells me) but I still think it should be higher. Loaded my motherboard's high performance bios defaults, and that made the FPS quite a bit higher on what I could see of the first video in 3DMark before it crashed. I don't know what it's problem with the high performance defaults is, everything I've got is high quality, my Ram especially (85 freakin' dollars for 256 megs of ram *shakes head*) but it was incredibly unstable. *sigh* I guess I'm doomed to only be rubbing it in my friend's face by around 3000 points.... GAINWARD YOU DISAPOINT ME! I WAS PROMISED GREAT OVERCLOCKING!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco Posted June 8, 2002 Posted June 8, 2002 Check out some reviews about the card. If you still feel that something is wrong, write to them. Its possible you could have a bad card. ??? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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