GF3 Overclock

[Svenn]

I can only get 230/520 out of my Visiontek GF3. I thought that was okay until I noticed people on madonion getting things like 300 core and over 600 mem... What gives? I've got stock cooling on the card, but I do have a PCI slot cooler and plenty of case fans. Shouldn't I be getting a higher overclock? I mean I saw people with Ti200s getting much higher than what I'm getting...

EDIT: Oh yeah, and what's the difference between driver overclocking and low level hardware overclocking?

[stoopid]

Well, as you know, each cpu clocks differently. The Ti200's came later on, and in some cases, have very good components on them (like the Ti4200s with faster memory than the Ti4400s ;) ).

I really don't know the difference between the 2, I always assumed the software just told the video card what speed to run at windows startup, I don't think anything's actually written to the bios/rom of the video card to reprogram its operating speed...

[Hardass]

With my GF3 Standard I could only get 236/545 for a score of 8001. Stock cooling does not cut it when your benching.

[Svenn]

Hardass, was that with stock cooling that you got 236/545?

[Sikarian]

I've got my GF3 ti200 OC'd to 235/515 on stock coolin. Running fine :)

-Sikarian

[Bravo]

Got a friend that can squeeze 249/505 from his Hercules card. Hercules seem to be better made.

[sysfailur]

Running stock, I've gotten 3 Gainward Ti200 64mb golden samples's to around 250-260/545-560.

[Hardass]

Originally posted by Svenn
Hardass, was that with stock cooling that you got 236/545?

Yes I haven,t changed anything. But it won,t go any higher without better cooling.