Overclocking GeForce - for what?

[Preacher 0]

A question I always wanted to ask (when I was not online ) is what you get in the term of FPS increase by overclocking your GeForce DDR. I remember having read an article saying benefits would be nearly unnoticeable. Please post your experiences here!

 

 

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[slkh 0]

When you overclock your graphics card, you get more frame rate. The more frame rate you get, the less jerky screen you got.

 

In some case, overclocking can add 15-20 fps. This is very significant to frame lower than 30 fps . However, it would be useless to have additional 20 fps if suppose you already have 100 fps.

 

Program such as Dagoth Moor Zoological Garden really stress your Geforce very hard. THat will be how the future game looks like. In that case, you might want to squeeze some more juice out of your already powerful Geforce.

[Arin 0]

I overclocked my geforce and am now able to play quake 3 ath the max affects and max resolution allowed by by my monitor (1280x1024). it runs perfictly smooth at avg of 60 frames per second to 70-90. over clocked settings are 135/335.

 

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[Pagongski 0]

I tried overclocking my geforce ddr (creative) and i had some increase in fps, not that much, though. The geforce ddr is very overclockable, you can really push the core and memory clocks to the roof without blowing anything up. :-)

One problem i had when i overclocked was with quake2, somehow the movement dididnt felt right, i cant really explain it, but it was like the screen was jerky, but not by lack of speed, more because of too muchj speed. :-P This was because the sync was off.

[Galilee 0]

I have overclocked the Annihilator Pro much

Using Q3 as a test:

in 1024 (nothing else is interesting) with everything maxed I get a 3-4fps increase on demo001 by increasing the clock to 135 and RAM to 330.

3-4 !!! I dont notice that. And! my GeForce sometimes lock ut by increasing the Hz that much. By setting it even lover there is absolutely no point.

And even though things allways seems fine in Q3 try UT UT is extremly sencitive to overclocking.

I dont overclock my card but feel free to try it. Coolbits work fine on the 513 drivers.