BFG video cards and overclocking

CarpathiaMan

Augustus wrote:

>
> > I know the difference between my stock settings and my OC settings
> > are minimal, and that it only gives me a couple hundred extra
> > points in 3DMark and maybe two or three extra frames per second in
> > my games, but I just think that half the fun of building and owning
> > your own PC is optimizing it to get the best performance out of it.
>
> I agree it's fun, and getting a couple of hundred more in a synthetic
> benchmark like 3DMark06 is rewarding to see, but I can assure you
> that this does not translate to 2-3 fps more in actual demanding
> games. In games like Crysis, it takes going from an 8800GT to an
> 8800GTX gives about a 3 fps framerate increase.

I wonder how much of an increase in FPS people will see in Crysis with
the 9900's, assuming that's what they'll be named. Nvidia is all over
the map these days with their naming scheme.

Daniel Albuschat

Augustus wrote:

>> GPU OCing is highly overrated these days, it's not like it used to be.

That highly depends on the configuration. If the CPU has plenty of room
to breath while the GPU is at it's limit, every MHz will increase your
performance. It's always a matter of matching the GPU to the rest of the
system. For me it's a difference of playing Crysis at full details
always above 30 FPS with an overclocked GPU or playing Crysis with less
details roughly around 30 FPS with stock-settings.

Regards,
Daniel