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Thread ID: 93863 2008-10-03 22:58:00 Graphics Card Overclock, No Effect? CaptainVincent (76) Press F1
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709670 2008-10-03 22:58:00 Hey there everyone.

I've just been using ASUS Smartdoctor to overclock my graphics card (8800GS TOP) I can sucessfully overclock the Engine from 600 to 700Mhz, Shader from 1700 to 1850Mhz and the memory from 1800 to 2000Mhz. I reset the computer and it is sucessfully overclocked reporting the overclocked values in smartdoctor, GPU-Z and Everest.

I run the crysis GPU benchmark, No difference. Surely there should be at least a SLIGHT increase? Any ideas. I have the following settings and specs.

Game Effects - High
Motion Blur - High
Object - Medium
Particles - Medium
Physics - Medium
Post Processing - High
Shading - High
Shadows - Medium
Sound - Medium
Texture - Medium
Volumetric Effects - Medium
Water - High

All at 1024x768, It seems a bit low for my card I felt, Everyone else on youtube seems to be running at high with an occasional mix of VHigh.

Processor is X2 3800+ @ 2.3Ghz.

Thanks.
CaptainVincent (76)
709671 2008-10-03 23:14:00 Crysis needs more RAM.

A 320MB card isn't going to give you much more than it's giving currently. Higher clocks will only ever give results if your GPU is the bottleneck. But in this case it's not.

If you want better results, buy a better card is probably your only option. OC is fully over-rated.
Thebananamonkey (7741)
709672 2008-10-04 03:43:00 I've just been using ASUS Smartdoctor to overclock my graphics card


I run the crysis GPU benchmark, No difference.

First ditch the ASUS software. Use Rivatuner.
Second, Crysis is the wrong game to test performance on, overclocked or not.
pctek (84)
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