I don't understand?

[lost0822]

I just started overclocking for the first time the other day. I?ve read many guides on how to do it, so I ?m pretty confident at the basics. I just built this machine about a month ago so I thought I?d try some overclocking. First thing I did was to make sure my system was stable at stock setting. Prime 95 ran for one 9 hour period and a 6 hour. Memtest ran at a 7 hour period, so everything is good at stock.

Anyway, I thought ok let bump up my FSB. Well I went up from 200 to 210 to start. Everything booted up fine and all, temp was about 41 at load and 35 stable. I thought well I should run Prime over night to test it, but for sh!t?s and giggles lets run 3dMark03 to see what my score comes out as. Now at stock settings I get around 11000 with my 6800GT slightly oveclocked 370/1030. I thought ok with this oveclock my cpu test scores should go up right? Therefore increasing my total score. Well I was wrong my score came out to the low 10000?s!

I don?t understand why this is? Like I said I?m new to this, so anyone know why?

I then went and bumped up my cpu voltage to see if that would help, from 1.5 to 1.65??nothing still around the low 10000?s. So then I thought o.k. maybe I should loosen my memory timings, well I went from 2.5, 3, 3, 8, 2T to 3, 4, 4, 9, 2T??ugh 3dMark03 scores sucked went to like 8000! And the frames were fragmented the whole time, so I changed my timings back.

What am I doing wrong. Am I doing this wrong in thinking my 3dMark03 cpu scores would go up? When I watch the frame rates on the cpu tests they are lower at my 210 fsb then at my stock 200 speed. Any suggestions? I ran Prime 95 all night last night (9 hours total) with the 210 FSB with no errors, so that seems pretty stable. Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

You must make sure that the memory timings are 1t for 2t causes a massive slowdown on the A64's. Don't run you memory every at 2t but find the fastest 1t timing HTT (FSB) and go from there.

 

[imported_RobJ]

I've had some similar experiences too. I recently overclocked from 11x200 stock to 10x230. My memory timmings are all set to "auto", so i don't know if my memory is on 2T or 1T. The first time I ran 3Dmark03, i got a measly 9000, with my gt overclocked to 400/1.1. This is because for some reason, when i overclock my graphics card, it will cause any game i am running to lock up for about 10 seconds at or near the beginning, and then it'll run perfect for hours. So I reran 3Dmark03 and I got somewhere above 12000 (i didn't write the number down or save the results). Since my score was in the 12 grand area, I assume my memory is at 1T.

So my first suggestion to you would be to try running the test twice and keeping the second score. But more importantly, that 2T is prolly killing you.

 

[lost0822]

cool, i've yet to try putting that to 1t i'll try that and let you know what happens.