I thought I would experiment with overclocking my an inferior competitor value (Inno3D) 6800 DDR2 graphics on PCIE.
I found increasing the PCIE speed with clockgen did not seem to have any effect so I found NVtweak which adds overclocking settings to the main Nvidia properties screen.
I benchmarked with D3D rightmark first then used the autodetect settings to O/C which gave me a mild increase 325 to 360 mhz (ish) and memory from 700 to 760 (ish). I thought that seemed a bit tame and had heard of these cards being o/c'ed a lot more so I tried the manual settings and got to 480 Mhz and 810 memory before it failed to pass the NVtweak test.
Next I ran far cry which crashed so I put the settings back to standard and re-ran far cry. But now some areas of the scenery are overtaken by blackness - almost if there's supposed to be a bit of a shadow there but there's just nothing there. i can still play the game but am wondering if i've broke the card...... The game is also running on a new hard disk and windows installation which may have something to do with it but I dont think so. I've upgraded direct X from 9 to 9c (latest) and Nvidia drivers are the latest (also the same as the previous install) this has made no difference.
I found increasing the PCIE speed with clockgen did not seem to have any effect so I found NVtweak which adds overclocking settings to the main Nvidia properties screen.
I benchmarked with D3D rightmark first then used the autodetect settings to O/C which gave me a mild increase 325 to 360 mhz (ish) and memory from 700 to 760 (ish). I thought that seemed a bit tame and had heard of these cards being o/c'ed a lot more so I tried the manual settings and got to 480 Mhz and 810 memory before it failed to pass the NVtweak test.
Next I ran far cry which crashed so I put the settings back to standard and re-ran far cry. But now some areas of the scenery are overtaken by blackness - almost if there's supposed to be a bit of a shadow there but there's just nothing there. i can still play the game but am wondering if i've broke the card...... The game is also running on a new hard disk and windows installation which may have something to do with it but I dont think so. I've upgraded direct X from 9 to 9c (latest) and Nvidia drivers are the latest (also the same as the previous install) this has made no difference.