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Overclocking anomaly

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FooDog

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I'm right now in the process of updating my secondary rig to something a little more usefull that a bulky mp3 player. Yesterday I got the new videocard, a visiontek GTS-V, and right after I installed it I ran 3Dmark 2001 to see what it could do. From I had heard, the card is supposed to very overclocking friendly, so I installed the latest detonator drivers, downloaded nvmax and got at it.
Maybe I should add that the GTS-V is a lower clocked, value version of the regular GTS. It runs at 175/286 as opposed to 200/333 of a regular GTS.
I decided to first bring the card up to par with a normal GTS before I testing the limits. I got there without any conflicts [nvmax is a fantastic tweak tool], and thought it be a good thing to run 3Dmark again to see how much performance had increased. The results were not at all what I expected. Get this, despite the fact that I upped the core clock by 14% and the memory by 16%, my 3Dmark scores dropped 3%!
I have no rational explaination for this. I still haven't gotten the new processor, so the box is still pulling it's weight w/ an old PII-266 @ 333. Could this have anything to do with it?
Can somebody explain this to me? I am at a complete loss here...

FYI, System spec:

Abit BX-6 rev 1.0
PII-266 @ 333, stock fan
256 MB PC133 Kingston SDRAM
VisionTek Xtacy 5632 Geforce2 GTS-V 32MB DDR w/Win9x_21.83 detonator driver
Win 98-SE

I will add an abit slotKET and a celeron 900 @ 1008, but it's still enroute.

 
That my be the abnormality in your adjustment. I tried the same thing with my Radeon 8500 and it also gave a lower 3DMark score the second time. I didn't try restarting the PC before the second run, which may be the reason for the decrease in scores. It also may be that the card is getting to hot and causing some type of slowdown at a higher clock speed. It's like a car going 80 and not overheating, but another car going 150 and overheating before getting to the finish line.
 
I'd put it down to the inherent small variances between each benchmark run. Your likely to have slight differences in results every time you run the benchmark even without changing any settings.

Overclocking the card will do absolutely completely nothing for you right now. Your totally processor limited and so you have extra video card power just sitting there going to waste when running 3DM2001. You could probably even underclock it by 15% and you still wouldnt see much differences between your original score besides the regular slight variances that always occur between runs.
 
Hmm... So the bottleneck is with the PII then? I can't wait until I get the slotKET so I can take care of that. I have all the other gear sitting around already, but it's pretty useless w/out the adapter. For some reason UPS thought it to be a grand idea to ship it from NY via Texas when it's going to Boston. I'm no logistics wiz, but that sounds like a pretty bad idea to me...
 
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