Geforce 4 ti4200 weird problem

[dpw2atox]

I have an Abit Geforce 4 ti 4200 OTES, thats the one with the cooling similar to the geforceFX system. Anyways this is suppost to be a very effective cooling method and the card is suppost to get a decent overclock of about 300 or so and 600 or so give or take a few Mhz. The card runs stock at 275/550. I have mine at 285/600 and it runs great there but if I up my core at all then it runs really fast but I get occasional points where the game runs very slow suddenly. Anyone else have this problem or know why it is occuring?

[walldow]

i would say it is the game and not the card. frame rates will go up and down acording to how mutch input the card is getting at a given time in the game.

exammple: i run a lord of the rings 3d screene saver and shows frame rates. the frame rates go from 150 to 75 and back up again. decrease of almost half. it's all in how mutch info the card has to process at a given time!;)

[dpw2atox]

see thats what I thought but if I have it clocked at 285/600 then it doesn't have the problem anymore. Its really weird. I've tried any other combination of the settings but if I go above 285Mhz core then I have it slow down randomly.

[walldow]

hmmm? that is strange. well have you tried any other games that show frame rates to compare clock speeds and see if it does the slow down on them?

[dpw2atox]

its not really a frame rate slow down...its more along the lines where it just pauses for a sec then starts going again. Its enough that if you are playing UT2k3 you can get killed from the pause. When this first happened I thought it was just my computer not being fast enough or the game settings too high. Then I lowered the overclock and all of a sudden the problem disappeared. so I played with it till I found this stable medium. I don't know whats wrong though and why this happens. I read a review on the card and the same thing happened to the reviewers card.

[Akumu X]

Eh take it from me, the guy who's squeezed every last bloody MhZ out of this Albatron. It's your core running too high. In my experience Mem running too high makes artifacts and tearing. Core running to high makes things extremely (or in your case, somewhat) choppy.

Hope this helps.

[flapperhead]

it almost sounds like the the things crankin so hard that your system has to do some file swappin on the hd to keep up with it

[pip]

every 20 minutes you should bring down the console and type in flush to see if this alleviates your problem