Getting the most out of your machine
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:20 pm
Been trying to see how far I can push my system beyond the stock speeds. Still very early into testing.
Stock: 1.86 ghz
OC'ed: 2.45 ghz
This may be close to the ceiling for me. I think it is my memory that will hold me back (as well as my cooling probably). My memory is only PC 5400 so it seems that I can successfully overclock it to run at dram 700mhz frequencies. Don't think it will run much faster than that. My next step will be to overclock the gpu using coolbits. So far the best score that I've gotten on 3dmark06 is 4606. Apparently one will notice better gains on 3dmark06 by overclocking their gpu rather than their cpu. Time will tell.
Edit: I am now running the processor at 2.56 ghz. The geforce 7900 gs can be overclocked from default of 450/333 to 547/399. My 3dmark06 also jumped up with the boost in the gpu to 5069.
Stock: 1.86 ghz
OC'ed: 2.45 ghz
This may be close to the ceiling for me. I think it is my memory that will hold me back (as well as my cooling probably). My memory is only PC 5400 so it seems that I can successfully overclock it to run at dram 700mhz frequencies. Don't think it will run much faster than that. My next step will be to overclock the gpu using coolbits. So far the best score that I've gotten on 3dmark06 is 4606. Apparently one will notice better gains on 3dmark06 by overclocking their gpu rather than their cpu. Time will tell.
Edit: I am now running the processor at 2.56 ghz. The geforce 7900 gs can be overclocked from default of 450/333 to 547/399. My 3dmark06 also jumped up with the boost in the gpu to 5069.
