What's more important to overclock: core or memory?

[crsgardner]

I was messing around with ATITool (which lets you OC core and memory individually) and was curious: which one is "more important" to overclock? I seem to get less resistance overclocking the core (it can go up pretty high from the default, but memory does not). Should I be shooting for a ratio of some kind, or as high as I can go on one or the other, etc?

 

[OinkBoink]

core is more important.depends actually. always the memory can be overclocked higher than the core

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: crsgardner
I was messing around with ATITool (which lets you OC core and memory individually) and was curious: which one is "more important" to overclock? I seem to get less resistance overclocking the core (it can go up pretty high from the default, but memory does not). Should I be shooting for a ratio of some kind, or as high as I can go on one or the other, etc?

Generally, you get more performance out of memory overclocks (despite the previous poster's comments), but with ATI cards, generally the core overclocks more than the memory (at least on R350 cards; I don't know about the new X800s).