overclocking

[plangley]

I recently had a Elsa GeForce, now I have a GeForce2 Pro. When I overclocked both cards my benchmark scores went down? I have a Asus CUSL2-C, Intel P3 800 and 256 megs of PC133 ram. Why would I get higher frame rates with lower clock speeds? I do have the front side bus running at 150 Mhx. Paul

 

[Crashman]

BIOS has a protection scheme that knocks down your AGP (from 4x to 2x) and Memory timing whenever you go over 140MHz to prevent boot failure. You can download a registry hack called stuffpcr that will set it back to full speed in Windows 98/ME. Look for it at <A HREF="http://www.blarg.co.uk/reviews/cusl2fix.html" target="_new">http://www.blarg.co.uk/reviews/cusl2fix.html</A>

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[Bud]

Crash knows way more about this stuff than I do, I simply speak from my personal experience. I don't know about your
M/B or FSB multipliers. But I do remember that the first GeForce I installed (year n half ago) had a little 250watt
power supply for both the Athlon800 and Geforce....and it did just exactly what you described. The higher I tried to clock the card...the lower the frame rates became. A better
power supply fixed the problem entirely.

...Just thought I'd throw that in there because I see very little difference between 2x and 4x AGP. But I saw a hellof
a difference when my card was underpowered. That's another reason I like asus drivers...they report my Vcard voltage.

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.