3dmark 03 drop after ocing 9500 pro?

[Gravija]

i flashed my 9500 pro sapphire OEM bios with the 3.3 infineon RAM one, and after i overclocked, my 3dmark 03 score dropped from 3750 on average to about 2800 @ 340/310, and when i load Diablo II, the text is all screwy and the overall performance in other games i noticed seemed to drop a little...
what's wrong with my card? -> and what's the solution

my 9600 pro goes at 510/345 fine and gets ~4000 on '03

thanks

btw, even if i take it at stock settings with the new BIOS, then it gets around 2400
2.2ghz 1700+ t-bred SLK800 +vantec stealth
NF7-S 2.0 200x11
PC3200 mushkin sync DCDDR 2-2-2-6

 

[Viper96720]

you went too far

 

[Gravija]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
you went too far

so what exactly do i have to do to get my scores up to the norm even at stock speeds?
i reflashed the BIOS with my orginal one and it goes back up to 3750, but stock with the modified BIOS gives me a 1400 drop in score, and overclocking ti doesn't even get up to the norm

btw, there are no artifacts, the performance is just increased, but an overall decrease from stock

 

[Viper96720]

Some of the sapphire bioses are factory unlocked. Did you try and see if it was an unlocked one.

 

[Gravija]

i don't think it was unlocked, cause whenever i tried using rivatuner to up the clock speed before, and ran a 3dmark, it would revert back to stock
i tried both rivatuner and radlinker and both would still give me a drop in 3dmarks

 

[Dustswirl]

Try the Rage3d tweak with the newest cat3.4 and follow what the FAQ says

My card works just fine @ 358/315 stock cooling but i don't like 3dmark** and any other artificial benchmark utility so i have no results... i just play my games and do my graphics and am happy with it