If I OC my HD 5730 from 650MHz to 750, will I have 400 more 3DMarks ( 11 )? +Results inside

Hey guys! Here is my result of 3D Mark 11 :
Result
So, if I OC my 5730 from 650MHz core to 750MHz, will I have 400 more points? Will it be safe if I OC to 800 or 850? Or will it be a tad risky?
What if I OC the mem clock from 800 to 850 ( combined with the 750 core? )

Will I have at least 400 more points? Or is it too much to ask?

 

Well you're asking for around a 50% increase in points which is unlikely... but not impossible.
That overclock isn't exactly EXTREME so i wouldn't call it "risky".
Overclocking is only risky if extreme temperatures (100C+) are a factor when doing it. If you do attempt it just keep an eye on temperatures and stop overclocking if it hits the mid-high 90's (just a rough number).
You might get 400 more points if you overclock the cpu aswell since the physics test seems to have quite an impact on the final score.

 

Mmmm, ok! Thanks for replying! I don't feel like flashing the BIOS only to OC the CPU, since I'm a not a geek... But not a noob too!
I guess I will stay this way, since when I tried OC'ing the mem clock from 800 to 900 I started to get artifacts... Tho, when I OC'd the core I had none. I think if I oc only the core, there won't be major differences, I guess?

 

Core and mem overclocking are more or less unrelated except they both heat up the GPU chip more.

Signs of unstable VRAM (memory) overclocking = artifacts as you said. However signs of unstable core overclocking is usually blackscreen / pink screen / computer locks up / computer self-restarts / BSOD, you'll know when that happens hahah.

Don't worry though, those may sound scary but they won't do anything permanent to your GPU, the only thing you need to be wary of is the GPU temperature. Don't let it go over 85 C if possible.

 

it's an ati you can overclock it in hell the card will auto shutdown befor it reaches the danger zone

 

Oh, ok, thanks!
When I OCd, I had idle temps at 56C. I think it's better not to OC. I will only do it after my warranty is over.

 

I can safetly OC my 5650 to 650/950 with temps never going over 70C. Yours should be fine at those clocks.

 

I got almost 200 points by overclocking HD5650 by 120MHz so you're not going to get 400 points by adding 100MHz to the core freq.

 

Oh, ok guys. Thanks a lot for the help !

 

I don't know what my stock would have been, but I have near identical hardware to you (CPU, GPU, RAM), and got 285 points more with my OC, though it's a lot more of an OC than what you were looking at doing. My results: Result

 

Mmmm... Did you also OC your CPU? Your Physics score is higher than mine too.

 

No, CPU is stock.

 

Odd... Then why do you have a higher Physics score? Because of the SSD?

 

I don't think the SSD does anything except speed up the load times. Maybe the GPU limits the score even in a CPU test? I'm not really sure. Do you have a lot of processes running, or something else that could be slowing the CPU down?

 

I have around 60 background processes lol. But they all use 00 of the CPU.

 

I'm down under 40 open processes. Try shutting a bunch of programs down, like your anti-virus (shut off your wireless card first) or anything that you aren't actively using when running the benchmark.

 

But even if the processes are not using the CPU ( they are at 0% ), will it help?

 

are they actually 0%? It doesn't show you any decimal places, so it could be rounding 0.49% down to 0% for 20+ processes. That could be a 10% increase in available processing power.

Personally, I think benchmark racing like this is rather pointless, but if you are doing it, you might as well shut down the extra processes.

Also, the CPU has extra overhead to do in just managing all the running processes. Each extra process running taxes the system for all the time that process is running, and having to manage the extra process. The CPU has to spend time switching back and forth between these tasks quickly. If you have enough processes running your computer will end up not actually running any of them because it will be spending all of its effort just trying to manage them all.

That's how that works.

 

Didn't read topic. My 5650 at .95V can do 700 clock and 900mem stable. I can put the clock a bit higher but it'll crash if I do anything intense for too long.

I'd expect a 5730 to go higher.

 

Wow, thanks for the info! +rep!
I also think benchs are stupid, but I just do them for fun

 

If I oc the core to 750 it is stable. But if I oc the mem from 800 to 900, i get artifacts.