Is there a specific Core:Memory ratio you should adhere to when o/c'ing the GF3?

[The Sauce]

I have my gainward Ti200 O/C'ed to 220/501...I was just wondering if there was some ratio of Core:Memory that you should stick to or just push each one as far as it will go.

 

[jcmkk]

It's not as much push each one as high as it can go, but push it to where the performance is best with no artifacts.

 

[whitelight]

the core clock and memory clock are independent of each other so it doesn't matter what ratio they're in.

 

[Mike99C5]

There's no optimal ratio but I'd say you're a little low on the memory side. You should easily get 530 out of that gainward card. I actually tested mine up to 240core/560mem with no problems but I'm running at 225core/530mem because I didn't see much improvement after that. I believe I'm CPU limited at this point as I'm only running an 800MHz PIII.

 

[John]

You get better results increasing the memory clock. Try 530Mhz. 🙂

 

[The Sauce]

Thanks for the tips all...I'll give it a whirl. I have to say I'm very impressed with this card's overclockability. Started out with 3dmark2001 scores of 6900...now I'm over 8000. That's a nice performance gain.

How does FSB overclocking affect the card if you are overclocking the core and memory though?