3DMark scores

[HugeAss101]

my question is how much increase in 3DMark scores is considered good when you oc?

[xMephistoNx]

Higher than you got before you overclocked.

[willlangford]

i went from 133 to 142 on my fsb and got about 200-300 points gain. i dont remember exactly how much but its enuff so it matters.

hope that helps.

~Will

[Ge|atinousFury]

When I increased my front side bus from 133 to 147, I gained 400 pts. in 3dMark2001

[willlangford]

isnt it a nice thing...that is why sometimes its not the card but the computer...a friend of mine has dual celeron500s witha 66fsb...very fast :) and a gf4 4400 his score is 4500.

~Will

[HugeAss101]

really you guys got that much of an increase when i upped it to 142 i didn t even get a 100 pt increase help plz

[HugeAss101]

actually i just redid the tests and my scores were lower by 200pts when i overclocked that doesnt make sense someone help plz

[OC-Master]

unfortuneatly, 3Dmark varies around 100 points so your next results may be off from your previos results. The best thing to do is to conduct three tests and take the average 3Dmark score from the three.

You will see an increase in 3Dmark score overall even if it was only 30 points.

Also keep in mind that if your graphics card is a serious bottleneck, 3Dmark scores may not even change, hence the graphics card may be keeping the FPS solid.


DS-Master

[{PMS}fishy]

I have a 2300 point difference between stock and O/C speeds.

[willlangford]

damn...i would think so with an fsb at 198...dang....i cant wait to get one of the 166fsb athlons...i wonder how those are going to overclock?

~Will

[adamtekh]

i just did a test this weekend with my freind 1700+ and ti420

i did a test @ 100 fsb 1100 mhz , then @ 133 fsb

and i saw a near 1000 point difreance

[maxima88]

10,189 @ stock 1.4GHz, 12,998 @ 1.85GHz w/ mem timing 2-2-2-5-1-4bank.

[Emericana]

i get around 2500 point increase

make sure you are running aggressive ram timings that helps by FAR the most score wise

EDIT: this is when i oc the cpu AND gpu not one of the other as i have not tried that

[Seal]

im going to oc later if i run say 11*170=1870mhz will that be quicker than say an 11.5*166=1909mhz???

Fsb is lower but the overall clock speed will be higher.

also anyone got a website or can explain to me each of the numbers of ram timings? and what they each mean? i get confused when ppl say "2-3-4-5-4-3-2" etc....

thx
seal

[{PMS}fishy]

Originally posted by seal
im going to oc later if i run say 11*170=1870mhz will that be quicker than say an 11.5*166=1909mhz???

Fsb is lower but the overall clock speed will be higher.

also anyone got a website or can explain to me each of the numbers of ram timings? and what they each mean? i get confused when ppl say "2-3-4-5-4-3-2" etc....

thx
seal

Check the sticky in the memory section. It will explain all the numbers. As for the two different speeds, bench and see which one is faster.

[Yodums]

From my observation, overclocking the CPU + adding more bandwidth to the systems helps much more than overclocking the video card (Almost does nothing). I didn't compare stock to overclocked however, I got the same score at stock 275/275 on the video card and higher clocked CPU than I did with my old chip + 300/300 on the video card.