6600gt

Hi, I have to go, so I need to be brief.

I have an XFX 6600GT, and the temps are usually quite low, around 38 degrees celcius, so I was thinking, some overclocking won't hurt.

I have played around with the overclocking in the NVidia Driver CP thing (not sure of the name), but it hasn't made much difference.

I did a test with FEAR, and I only got, on avg, and extra 2fps. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is a 6600GT not that oc-able?

I increased the Memory by about 150 Mhz and the core by about 55Mhz, without problems I think.

 

I overclocked my asus 12% and found things choppier, I am learning the whole overclock thing, but your specs are nice...go SATA, must be a voltage thing,or is it, I'm with you , need to know? My temps are 32, and 35 degs celcius, same game.

 

If the video card isent what is slowing the system down overclocking the video card will only make the system bottleneck even harder on what realy is slowing down.

Example: running stock your video card is spending 90% of its time working and 10% of its time waiting on finished data from the CPU, while the CPU is working 100% of the time trying to keep up with your video card. Now if you go to overclock your video card (lets say by 25%) then your video card would be working maybe only 75% while the CPU still runs at 100% trying to keep up with the now faster video card. The result is an even slower system.

I my self am unsure exactly how making the bottleneck larger would make the system slower as opposed to no change at all. But i have seen it quite often when overclocking a video card. My gess is its your system ram of CPU holding you back...

 

Yeah I was thinking that, well you can see my system specs in my signature. Tell me what I may be encountering, and what I need more of, or better components for...

 

Well for starters i need more detailed specs... maybe DL sandra or everest and give me your memory bandwidth and CPU MIP scores...

 

I have Everest.

How would I get my Memory Bandwidth and the CPU MIP Scores?

 

Bump.

 

Anyone?

How would I get my Memory Bandwidth and the CPU MIP Scores using Everest?

 

go to Benchmarks and run the tests by clicking the refresh button at the top (there are 3 tests and one of them is the bandwidth test)

 

I just see a whole lot of benchmarks for other setups...

CPU CPU Clock Motherboard Chipset Memory Read Speed
P4EE 3733 MHz MSI P4N Diamond nForce4-SLI-Intel Dual DDR2-667 7630 MB/s

CPU CPU Clock Motherboard Chipset Memory Read Speed
P4EE 3733 MHz Dell Dimension XPS i925XE Dual DDR2-533 6920 MB/s

CPU CPU Clock Motherboard Chipset Memory Read Speed
Pentium EE 840 3200 MHz Intel D955XBK i955X Dual DDR2-667 6100 MB/s

Those are the top three for Memory Read.

Am I meant to go and find my configuration or something?

 

check this out (sorry for the sloppy paint-writing lol):
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h98/viper_boy403/everest.jpg

 

That made it easy! Thanks.

Memory Read: 2187MB/s
Memory Write: 753MB/s
Memory Latency: 130.8 ns

 

Now what?

 

I know the answer!

First off I have seen many games where overclocking a graphic card make little Difference!

FEAR is a game the KILLS graphics cards, its a poorly programed game.
So you need a larger card for fear then any game I have seen out,


I have to tell you in FEAR, the 6600 gt is the Bottleneck!
I have same and due to only 8 pipelines in the chip. The lack of pipelines meaning the more overclock your card the more you have to squeeze in your 8 pipeline. You need more pipelines then 8 then that are in your grahic card.

I have read many articles about the 6600 gt and they all say the same thing,
also i have a brother that helped design your 6600gt! AND he said the same thing...
Trust me 6600gt is a good card just not so good enough for FEAR>

 

I reckon 70fps is great, I was just wondering why it's not overclocking much.

Thanks.