ACK! Overclocking issues!

[MournSanity]

Ok, so today I had the balls to start overclocking my Ti200. I turned on coolbits and decided to start with the ram. I upped it by 10 MHz. Then I ran 3dmark2001. It ran fine. So I upped it by another 10 MHz. Ran 3dmark. It ran fine again. I did this until I reached 440 Mhz ram and realized that my 3dmark score was going LOWER. I was like WTF? So I stopped overclocking there. I reseted to default speeds and here I am.

I have heard that some people's score will actually go lower, but why is this? Also, should I try again until I hit max and try the core afterwards? You think I will get different results. I restarted after I overclocked BTW so it might be different I dunno.

 

[MournSanity]

AHH! I just tried to play Unreal Tournement and the graphics are all messed up...WEIRD because 3Dmark 2001 works perfect...

 

[MournSanity]

UPDATE: MDK2 plays just fine yet so it must be Unreals problem and not my card...I hope.

 

[MournSanity]

Also when I overclock, things get really stuttery, almost like it gets a few hiccups. The demo looks and plays fine, but stutters like hell.

Is my card a horrible overclocker? I hope not. I already voided my lifetime warranty by overclocking and it looks like I haven't gained anything in return. This bites.

 

[Runequest2]

Originally posted by: hypersonic5
Also when I overclock, things get really stuttery, almost like it gets a few hiccups. The demo looks and plays fine, but stutters like hell.

Is my card a horrible overclocker? I hope not. I already voided my lifetime warranty by overclocking and it looks like I haven't gained anything in return. This bites.

How did you void your lifetime warranty?

no one can tell if you used a software program to overclock a card.

 

[MournSanity]

Um...The company says they can detect if it was overclocked and it voids the warranty. Anyway, i managed to overclock it to 205/472 and don't want to go farther because it seems just fine at this speed. I wanted to break the 6000 3dmark border and did so by a few hundred points, so I'm happy.

 

[MatthewF01]

is that whole thing about them claiming they can identify an overclocked card just a bunch of shit???


I remember when i was overclocking my Geforce 2MX, I stepped up like 5MHz at a time, and then the score started to go lower, but then i kept going up to a point where it began to pick up again!

Just keep the memory speed fast enough compared to the core so you dont have a bottleneck bandwidth issue...