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Just tried all sorts of things and benchmarks with 3DMark03, here's the results:
GPU @ Stock & Graphics @ Stock - 7,621 (CPU got 373, lol)
GPU o/clocked & Graphics o/clocked - 8,530 (CPU still only got 429, lol)
As above, with the Omega drivers - 8,509
So quite a nice performance boost from overclocking, my FPS in Counter Strike Source also shot from very choppy to a stable 35fps which is nice, especially since I'm running it at 1680 x 1050 in full detail on a pretty naff PC
Not too impressed with the Omega drivers, Half-Life ran very slightly better but 3D Mark in particular seemed to come off a tad worse, but most importantly it crashed a few times too and threw up some weird error messages, so I went back to the standard ATI drivers!
My only concern is that the CPU is running at around 65 degrees under load, it's an AMD Barton so should go up to 85 I think before it starts getting into trouble, but 65 degrees still seems quite high; should I underclock it/whack the fan speed up or should be alright?
GPU @ Stock & Graphics @ Stock - 7,621 (CPU got 373, lol)
GPU o/clocked & Graphics o/clocked - 8,530 (CPU still only got 429, lol)
As above, with the Omega drivers - 8,509
So quite a nice performance boost from overclocking, my FPS in Counter Strike Source also shot from very choppy to a stable 35fps which is nice, especially since I'm running it at 1680 x 1050 in full detail on a pretty naff PC
Not too impressed with the Omega drivers, Half-Life ran very slightly better but 3D Mark in particular seemed to come off a tad worse, but most importantly it crashed a few times too and threw up some weird error messages, so I went back to the standard ATI drivers!
My only concern is that the CPU is running at around 65 degrees under load, it's an AMD Barton so should go up to 85 I think before it starts getting into trouble, but 65 degrees still seems quite high; should I underclock it/whack the fan speed up or should be alright?
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Woah man, that sounds hot! What are you running it at?
2500+ running at 3200+
To be honest though, even when I run it at 2500+ with the fan on full it runs at 57 degrees, so I thought I'd put it up to 3200+ and put the fan on medium just to test it, it's a fair bit quicker and a hell of a lot queiter and in comparison not really an awful lot hotter.
Not sure if I'm doing a bad thing though ;_; I'm trying to buy a new Athlon CPU sometime with silent cooler but they're pretty hard to find and sometimes go for stupid money on Ebay!
To be honest though, even when I run it at 2500+ with the fan on full it runs at 57 degrees, so I thought I'd put it up to 3200+ and put the fan on medium just to test it, it's a fair bit quicker and a hell of a lot queiter and in comparison not really an awful lot hotter.
Not sure if I'm doing a bad thing though ;_; I'm trying to buy a new Athlon CPU sometime with silent cooler but they're pretty hard to find and sometimes go for stupid money on Ebay!
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Sounds like it's going the same way mine is: years of running @2.2 means I've been gradually increasing the voltage over the past 18 months to keep it stable. Probably electron leakage or something. Still, it does sound abnormally high, so you might get a bit of a drop by reseating the heatsink. I wouldn't get another one because I hear the newer ones aren't very good clockers, and another used one will probably also start to deteriorate fairly soon like this one is if it's been running overclocked all its life.
