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what does Over clocking do?

post #1 of 9
9/2/04 at 5:38pm
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Whats the point of over clocking?
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post #2 of 9
9/2/04 at 5:42pm
To increase the clock speeds of your processor or video card in order to get more performance i.e. higher frame rates in games.
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post #3 of 9
9/2/04 at 5:49pm
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thanks
ATTN: Anyone with a ATI 9600
What do you over clock 2?
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post #4 of 9
9/2/04 at 6:15pm
The highest I have been able to OC to is 439 Mhz engine clock, 223 Mhz Memory clock(those are the benchmark settings I currently use for 3dMark). I can usually only run this without artifacts on a fresh bootup, and I tone down my clocks immdediatley after the benchmark.
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post #5 of 9
9/2/04 at 9:57pm
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what do u get
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post #6 of 9
9/2/04 at 11:06pm
I used to over clock so if I woke up late I'd really end up on time.

But seriously, you can "get" better performance out of your computer. In the old days it could make a huge difference. Now-a-days, it's sort of a hobby just see how far you can push it to get a benchmark. The over-clocks are not really worth the performance tweak. If you can overclock a 6 mhz processor to 8mhz you get a 25% increase in performance, but now we're trying to overclock a 3ghz to 3.4, the difference is very small, and video over-clocks are usually not maintainable for extended play without rendering errors to the screen or harming the hardware and do not provide enough of a performance increase to actually improve game play.

So get yourself a copy of 3dmark and fire extinguisher and post your benchmarks, buddy.
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post #7 of 9
9/3/04 at 1:06am
That was one fantastic post, Sonic.
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post #8 of 9
9/3/04 at 3:36am
i thought most people here ocd their radeons a little bit. In the 3dmark scores ive seen here the overclocking seemed to make a big difference.
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post #9 of 9
9/3/04 at 4:07am
Benchmarks??? Overclock a 6800GT and fry an egg (or smell the bacon).
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