vid card success

[plague]

I was playing quake today and asked if anyone overclocked there GTS, to see what other people were getting. Well, the main response I got was, "Why would you do that, it's useless."

Well these are my 3DMark2k1 scores:

stock speed 200/333, old drivers: 3515
new 23.11 det., up to 215/400: 4619

And it can breeze through hours of 3dmark looped, and doesnt even hiccup in artifact tester hardcore. I'm still going with it, and I also havent OC'd my cpu yet.
I just wanted to give a little hard evidence to those that think its useless. No one on these boards though, we all just want more speed:cool:

[The Overclocker]

wow, nice benchmarks, i have a geforce 2 ti and only get 3600

[supergenius74]

but everyone got a good boost from the new drivers so thats not all that incredible, besides the fact that 3dmarks do not necessarily turn into real world FPS, here is a test for ya, now that you have new drivers installed, run a quake 3 benchmark (timedemo) and record your average fps before and after the overclock. be sure to run a good res like 1024 or higher and turn on all the quality options on because 640 x 480 w/ low quality defeats the purpose of playing computer games, might as well have a playstation, anyway record your difference in FPS and then post it here and then we will see if it is worth risking frying your card over. :beer:

[Sonny]

Great accomplishment dude:beer:

When my card was at stock speed it would always drop to 15FPS when things got wild with Q3 @ 1024/768 & everything on. When I overclocked my MX it would only drop to 30FPS-35FPS. If that isn't a worthwile improvement then what is. Just because you did not get the improvement you were hoping for doesnt mean everyone else doesnt.

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[plague]

Originally posted by supergenius74
but everyone got a good boost from the new drivers so thats not all that incredible, besides the fact that 3dmarks do not necessarily turn into real world FPS, here is a test for ya, now that you have new drivers installed, run a quake 3 benchmark (timedemo) and record your average fps before and after the overclock. be sure to run a good res like 1024 or higher and turn on all the quality options on because 640 x 480 w/ low quality defeats the purpose of playing computer games, might as well have a playstation, anyway record your difference in FPS and then post it here and then we will see if it is worth risking frying your card over. :beer:

I agree that 3dmark isnt the be all and end all of video card benching, but 1100 pts will definitely make a difference. Ok, I showed the final product after drivers and all. So here, new drivers and stock speed: 3900. And now I just maxed out at 220/410, and my score is 4700. Thats 800 points with the same drivers.

P.S. Does anyone know of any quake demos that I could use with a newer point release? I have 1.31 now, I'm not reinstalling quake just to benchmark.

[plague]

I recorded a demo with my point release and heres what I got.

These are at high quality 1024x768x32
stock speed: 100 fps
oc'd to 220/410: 120 fps

there ya go, 20 fps just overclocking the vid card a little bit.