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.
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.