How much have you gained by OCing your card?

Curious what some others with the X1600 cards (and similar of course) are able to gain by overclocking. Extra eye-candy? More FPS? Both?

 

With the Go7600 i had maybe upto 5fps difference and an obvious increase in 3dmark scores. It ddint really benefit that much from it with an increase of 30-50mhz for both core and memory.

it wont make playing at higher resolutions an option unless that 5fps brings it over the 25fps threshold for noticeable framerates

 

I know that when I overclocked core and memory, I got performance boosts in games. I was too lazy to benchmark them, and now I don't use my computer for games anymore.

 

my 3dmark differences are in my signature.

I never game overclocked. Dont want to overclock for more than a few minutes.
When my computer is older and struggling with half life 3 or something I probably will

 

Ever since I moved to Vista I have not found any reliable overclocking utilities (Vista won't give ATI Tray Tools kernel-level access, so it won't run. I have to uninstall/reinstall every time to get it to work), but under Windows XP, I got significant performance increases from overclocking.

3DMark05
Stock (351:351): 2,800
OC (410:400): 3,300+

 

I have pretty high default clocks (475/475) in my Acer TM8204 already but OCing the core seems to smooth out Medieval II more. I think OCing helps with keeping a stable higher framerate than it really does increasing your framerate in the X1600's. And I haven't been able to get 3dMark05 to finish properly at all lately and I don't know why. All my games run fine but 3dMark05 won't bench.

 

Overclocking my X700 sure helped with Oblivion.

3dmark05 stock (351:297 128 MB X700 Mobility): 2400
3dmark05 overclock (372:330 128 MB X700 Mobility): 2800

That is a nice boost of 18%. Especially Oblivion plays much better with the overclock, less stuttering and FPS boost from 16 to 20 FPS.
Extra eye candy? No, I remained at the same settings.

-Notebook Solutions

 

... more heat

I've left my X1600 at stock (and underclocked) at 428/375. I tried OCing but the couple of extra fps wasn't worth it for the extra heat. Plus with tweaking of in-game settings, F.E.A.R runs quite pretty for me. Will try Oblivion soon (not even installed it since I bought it last week! ).

 

Someone explain to me how to OC my GMA900 so I can get more than 5 FPS in Half Life 2

 

More FPS with higher settings.

500/420 max OC on my X1600 256mb.

 

i overclocked my m60 g6600 from 300/300 to 350/385 and gained an increase of 22fps in cs:s (52fps to 74fps high settings)
in my dell x1300 stock 400/350 i can only get the core to 475 and the mem at 455 (max memory settings in powerstrip) i know i can still squeeze more in mem but only powerstrip will let me change it.

 

3DMark05: ~4000 stock, ~4500 with moderate OC

I OC'd when I used to play Oblivion. I mainly play CS:S nowadays, and there's no need to OC there.

 

For my X1400 OC I didn't check with 3Dmark but I consulted FEAR and CS:Source as my mini benchmark.
FEAR(Medium/High Settings): stock = 40 fps | OCed = 52 fps [avg framerate]
CS:Source(Maximum Settings): stock = 99.26 fps | OCed = 106.65 fps
stock settings @ 432/396 | OCed settings @ 505/435 (no artifacts)

 

I was able to get 10 fps more in CS:Source Stress test, ocing from 350/350 to 450/369

 

was wondering, what would be the danger level be like in OCing the GPU in a laptop?

 

why are ur defualt clocks so low? my go 6600 is 375/300(DDR=600)

 

Well temperature is in the first place. Some cards can work at temps higher than 100 degrees C (tested). Heatsinks are not built for taking extensive heat from the GPU, and if you have the common heatsink for CPU and GPU, GPU actually heats CPU! So in that case additionally you have to worry about the CPU temp. Some GPUs work at 80 degrees C.

Artifacts are the second worst thing causing freezes, stops and restarts. You can lose some data that way, but usually everything will be fine. Sometimes people overclock the core thinking that higher core freq will give them more power. That is true to some extent - If you leave mem far too behind - you will see more artifacts and vice versa. Sometimes is much wiser to overclock mem and get a better speed, cause GPUs are usually quite fast and need something to do while the slow mem provides data. MEM chips are also much cooler than the core. So in some cases (like x700) it is much better to overclock memory, and is practically completely safe. The limit is when you see artifacts.

There are also issues with latencies, drivers, advanced tweaks in registry etc...

Cheers,

Ivan

 

On CS:S in de_cbble, I get about 100-140fps, and OCing it an extra 100MHz core and 30 MHz mem, only made the framerate max out a little higher about 100-155fps.

It wasn't really worth OCing, especially since in every other game there was only about a 1-4 fps increase.
Since I upreaded to Vista, I havent found a program that will OC my card yet, but the CCC can still OC my X1950xt desktop.

 

If you need all you can get it helps , overclocking got me to the 30 FPS mark in Oblivion which I was more than happy about, and it got me 9 more FPS in CS: source and allowed me to play s.t.a.l.k.e.r with lighting =/

 

i got 128fps in css bench with everything maxed out @stock speeds (450/495) got like 5 fps gain with a very low overclock (500/550) lol i could overclock more but i would rather just wait for my new lappy to come in just in case i mess something up. oh and this bench was on my acer lappy w/ a x1600. and a question for chaz. is there a foul language censor on this forum? i dun wanna be rude and say some bad stuff and get banned. ty in advance

 

Yes, we have a bad language filter that automatically converts bad words into asterisks. However, we would strongly prefer if you did not have to make use of the filters. It's really not necessary to use those kinds of words on this forum.