LOL...I blew $400 for only 1100 marks. $40 aint squat. I'd love to get 900 marks for only $40. Sign me up.Quote:
Originally posted by Thunderbird1GHz
no kidding, I spent $40 on an xp1700 just to gain ~900 marks!
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LOL...I blew $400 for only 1100 marks. $40 aint squat. I'd love to get 900 marks for only $40. Sign me up.Quote:
Originally posted by Thunderbird1GHz
no kidding, I spent $40 on an xp1700 just to gain ~900 marks!
Yeah me too.. It would put me in the #2 spot on the Sharky extreme 3DMarks :) :D
I am hoping my $78 Pelt/Water cooled GPU cooler will yeild over 1000 points for me :) I need to get above 380/330!!!!
I'm thinking I just blew $300 for a Vapo PE that will only give me a 5 mhz FSB increase. I seriously believe this chip is close, very close to its limits. We'll see how the Vapo works on these newer 800mhz chips. :)
thanks for not flaming me ;) and yes you get diminishing returns. I am already facing that. going from 550 to 1200 marks cost me a $50 geforce2mx. then another $80 for a ti500 to get 3200. then another $150 for a new mobo and ram to get 6800. a ti4200 got me another 1100 but its $100! then a $18 cpu to go to 9400 marks, yet another major increase. Im running outta options here, heh but Ill be happy with whatever gains I get anyway. going from low end to midrange stuff is cheap, but ocing top dog stuff isnt. as for the peltier, why not get one for your cpu too?
Dude, if you can get that 9700Pro higher you will get 1K. Don't know how good your card is, but you should be able to get a sweet score especially with the new mobo. :)Quote:
Originally posted by Colossus
Yeah me too.. It would put me in the #2 spot on the Sharky extreme 3DMarks :) :D
I am hoping my $78 Pelt/Water cooled GPU cooler will yeild over 1000 points for me :) I need to get above 380/330!!!!
If he can oc that cpu more by going water, he can exceed 4GHz easy and get several more thousand marks. his centerwood mobo is what he needs and ordered accrodially.
I am exspecting more then 1K when my pelt gpu cooler comes in... I am shooting for 1.5K on video overclock alone and maybe an extra 750 for the Canterwood :)Quote:
Originally posted by Royal Oaks
Dude, if you can get that 9700Pro higher you will get 1K. Don't know how good your card is, but you should be able to get a sweet score especially with the new mobo. :)
But all that is a guess... Maybe even 2K for the gpu overclock if I can get to 450 from 380 :)
I highly doubt a core oc will give you more than a couple hundred, I got 700 more marks and I oced both the core and ram by ALOT! 250/445 to 280/520! the ram helped alot more than the core too. I would try the watercooler on the cpu first, but whatever makes you happy
I get about 1200 points alone going from stock to 380mhz on the core.. So overclocking the core does help a lot!!! So if I can get it to 480 I can achieve another 1200 points if the scoring is linear... But since I never achieve that high on the core before I am not sure.. So with that said I am done!