I have been experiencing a problem where decreasing the resolution doesnt improve my framerates. After much discusion on the forums we think it comes down to my Cpu being the weak link so i have overclocked it and seem to have got a conclusion which i would like your opinions please.
Asus m3a-h/hdmi board
Athlon 64 x2 5000+ 2.6ghz
ocz 2gb ddr2 5300 667mhz memmory
HD 4870 512mb gddr5 Graphics running overclocked 790/1100
Windows xp 32
15" crt monitor.@ 60hz
850w psu
At stock 2.6ghz Crysis Benchmark ran 1280x1024=36.48fps
1024x768=36.52fps
At 2.997Ghz Crysis Benchmark ran 1280x1024=42.20fps
At 2.997Ghz Crysis Benchmark ran 1024x768=42.15fps (lower res and fps worse?)
Amd overdrive Benchmark 2.6ghz 6830
Amd Overdrive benchmark 2.997ghz 7921
as you can see the extra 400mhz has improved framerate over stock setting but reduce the res at any given cpu speed it stays the same. What could be causing this?
Please could you advise if this is a healthy overclock never done it before and i used amd Overdrive manually adjusted.
Cpu 2.996Ghz @1.3750v
HT Clock 230mhz HT link1153mhz
PCie Speed 110mhz from 99mhz
Max Cpu temp with Amd Overdrive stability test 11mins was 49 degrees idling 33 degrees with stock heatsink and fan + 3 case fans.
System seems stable so far not tried any games yet.
Asus m3a-h/hdmi board
Athlon 64 x2 5000+ 2.6ghz
ocz 2gb ddr2 5300 667mhz memmory
HD 4870 512mb gddr5 Graphics running overclocked 790/1100
Windows xp 32
15" crt monitor.@ 60hz
850w psu
At stock 2.6ghz Crysis Benchmark ran 1280x1024=36.48fps
1024x768=36.52fps
At 2.997Ghz Crysis Benchmark ran 1280x1024=42.20fps
At 2.997Ghz Crysis Benchmark ran 1024x768=42.15fps (lower res and fps worse?)
Amd overdrive Benchmark 2.6ghz 6830
Amd Overdrive benchmark 2.997ghz 7921
as you can see the extra 400mhz has improved framerate over stock setting but reduce the res at any given cpu speed it stays the same. What could be causing this?
Please could you advise if this is a healthy overclock never done it before and i used amd Overdrive manually adjusted.
Cpu 2.996Ghz @1.3750v
HT Clock 230mhz HT link1153mhz
PCie Speed 110mhz from 99mhz
Max Cpu temp with Amd Overdrive stability test 11mins was 49 degrees idling 33 degrees with stock heatsink and fan + 3 case fans.
System seems stable so far not tried any games yet.