Benefits of overclocking Geforce2 GTS/Pro? Benchmarks within...

[Liquidity]

I have a ELSA GLADIAC Geforce2 64mb GTS/Pro (not sure which, see other thread)

Got to running some Quake3 TeamArena timedemos on it, and decided to see what differences overclocking made. Here's what I got from running ucguidetademo1:

mapname GPUmhz RAMmhz FPS
ucguidetademo1 @200mhz 400mhz 55.7fps
ucguidetademo1 @220mhz 333mhz 51.5fps
ucguidetademo1 @220mhz 400mhz 56.7fps
ucguidetademo1 @230mhz 400mhz 57.0fps
ucguidetademo1 @230mhz 410mhz 57.2fps
ucguidetademo1 @235mhz 400mhz 57.0fps
ucguidetademo1 @240mhz 333mhz 0fps (crash hehe)

I know it's not terribly scientific, but it looks to me like it's not worth it to overclock this card. A very few fps doesn't interest me when I know that card is probably getting HOT. Sounds like what I've heard is true, that the bottleneck on this card is the ram and not the GPU, so overclocking the GPU won't help much but o/c the ram will a little.

PS: You can get the TeamArena timedemos from:
UpsetChaps Q3A and TeamArena Guide

 

[snow patrol]

Well, you're gaining 10% there by pushing the RAM up to 400Mhz. I don't think that's anything to turn ones nose up at. See how high the RAM can go and keep the core low. That's your best bet possibly.

 

[Liquidity]

Yeah that's what I'm doing. The RAM will go 410 but after that I start getting scary artifacts.

 

[Wiz]

I'm interested in what your CPU type and speed are and what bus speed you are running?

 

[Liquidity]

P3-750@900, 120mhz FSB
256mb PC133 RAM

By the way, I know 57fps probably sounds low for that card, but I'm running it at 1280x1024 with everything turned on. It's purty.

 

[Wiz]

Ok, I have a similar setup. That's basically what I had heard as well that overclocking the video card
does not make that much differance - not enough to void your warrantee anyway.
I've only had my Geforce2 card for a little less than 2 weeks, and today it went bad on me. If you are interested the details are Here
So anyway, warrantee is a nice thing to have intact. I hope I can figure out why this thing doesn't work and get it working again without having to try to get it replaced.
My experience was this concerning speed of video card etc...

When my system was a Celeron 300a @ 505mhz with a 64 meg Geforce2
it was about equal to what I am running right now
P3 700e @ 870mhz with TNT2.

For the short period of time I had the best of both worlds today where my P3 700e @ 870mhz was running with my Geforce2 it seemed very speedy indeed. Then I had to go an pull the card out and put it back a coulple times and ruin everything. :frown:
I hope your experience is and remains better than mine!

 

[Liquidity]

Doing what will void the warranty?

And ya, I'm very happy with this machine. I can get 90+fps by turning things off in Q3A, and I still think it's plenty speedy with everything turned on.