Overclocking a rubbish GPU

[Skilid]

Hi Guys,

Im new to this forum and thought i would tell you about my overclock (your probably not interested but there we go)

I have a Dell Dimension 3000 and i wanted to play some games on it. I opened it up only to find PCI slots... so i wasn't very happy.

I found a PNY Verto Geforce FX 5500 PCI card and bunged it in.

The performance increase was only just noticable over my OnBoard Intel 'Extreme' (lol) graphics, so i overclocked it.

My stock speeds were 270/400... and i took it up too 320/471... the program says it can't complete the test if i have it any higher, so this is the highest i can have it.

My computer runs stable most of the time... but on very hot days i have to put it back to its original clock speeds to keep it from over heating.

Anywayz... just thought i would share...

Cheers.

Cripple.

P.S any thoughts?

 

[lay-z-boy]

benchies, pics, screenies?

my first thought.

Welcome btw.

 

[Skilid]

I got 1200 roughly on 3DMark03. Not that good really.

Ummm... not on my PC at the mo so i can't post screenies.

Cripple.

 

[Mitch007]

What CPU and ram you got in there?

 

[Mul]

Hi Cripple

My stock speeds were 270/400... and i took it up too 320/471... the program says it can't complete the test if i have it any higher, so this is the highest i can have it.

Clocking with coolbits? It looks like the card has reached it's limits. Tried easing the clocks back to 315mhz core and 465mhz memory.

Mul

 

[Skilid]

Hi Cripple



Clocking with coolbits? It looks like the card has reached it's limits. Tried easing the clocks back to 315mhz core and 465mhz memory.

Mul

Hey Mul. lol.

I think i will leave them where they are for the moment, because it is running okay.

@ Mitch I got P4 2.8 and 2 x 256 PC2700 RAM :/

Cripple.

 

[Cairnsey]

is it a skt 478 motherboard? I've got a spare 478 board with an AGP port..... (will have to test it to see if it works) then you could slap in a 7600gs for £75 and have a half decent rig need more ram tho....

 

[Cairnsey]

let me know if you want it and i'll test it.

 

[Skilid]

That would be quite cool. How much would you want for it?

It has to be a micro-ATX board, otherwise it won't fit, but i don't really need more than what i have at the moment though. Well, that's because i don't have any AA on at the moment lol

Cripple.

 

[Cairnsey]

I would have gave it to you, but its not micro-ATX. Also, I've inspected it and noticed that it's missing a tiny resistor (snapped in half and bent) on the back of the board, so i'm 99.9% certain it won't work. That'll teach me to buy a "untested" item off a popular auction site I originally bought it to clock (fry) my ol' northy with as my BE7 is fsb limited due to faulty PCI lock but never got round to testing it, then thought I'll just buy a c2d and new mobo instead.....