OC'ing can be fun

External Since: May 23, 2007 Posts: 2

"Ed Medlin" <eddiemedlin.TakeThisOut@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>>> I decided to go ahead with Vista Ultimate since all my hardware is up
>>> to it and did run 3DMark06 and got mid 10,000s consistantly in Vista
>>> with just one 8800 GTX. My overclocking experience in Vista is no
>>> different than XP Pro. If anything, it seems more stable. I would have
>>> figured otherwise with all the negative stuff I have heard and did
>>> experience while participating since the alpha through the two RCs. I
>>> did a clean install after testing on it's own partition for a while and
>>> have had no problems whatsoever.
>>>
>>> Ed
>> Hi Ed, good luck with Vista!
>> Earlier, you said you got 14348 in 3DMark06 with both video cards
>> installed.
>> Now, you say you're getting "mid 10,000s" with one video card.
>> I don't understand, can you clarify?
>> With Vista and OCing, I'm getting poor shutdown, intermittent startup,
>> and Explorer and other programs not always working properly.
>> I suspect the functional problems are related to previous faulty shut
>> downs.
>> Thanks,
>> Jack R
>>
> 10282 with Aero and lots of junk turned on and 10446 by turning off
> Aero and some other eye candy in Vista. Not a lot of difference there. I
> have to check some other things and maybe other drivers because those
> numbers do not seem correct for a single GTX. It should be down in the
> 8000s somewhere actually. 3DMark06 acted a bit funny and didn't pause
> between some of the tests like it usually does.........Don't know what is
> going on. The main glitch I have with Vista is opening the Outlook
> newsreader from Outlook Mail (Office XP) but that wouldn't be OC'ing
> related since everything else seems to work fine. There are a few older
> programs that will not work, but I expected some of those. Partition Magic
> 8 and Nero 6 are two of those. I kept my original OC'ing settings from XP
> Pro when moving to Vista Ultimate and had no problems with the install or
> anything else (knock on wood). Like I said, I would take those 3DMark06
> scores with a grain of salt at this point because I am pretty sure they
> are bogus looking at some of the other 8800 GTX scores in Vista.
>
> Ed
Hi Ed,
With my E6600, evga 8800 GTS, at 3.0GHz, I get 3DMark06 of 8630. When I OC
the video card, I can get up to 10,209.
What video drivers are you using? I'm using 7.15.11.6003, 4/27/07
(unreleased)
It would be interesting to see a back-to-back comparison of one video card
vs. two.
Thanks,
Jack R

External Since: Jun 01, 2007 Posts: 4

"Jack R" <jackrutherford.TakeThisOut@charter.net> wrote in message
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> "Ed Medlin" <eddiemedlin.TakeThisOut@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>>>> I decided to go ahead with Vista Ultimate since all my hardware is
>>>> up to it and did run 3DMark06 and got mid 10,000s consistantly in Vista
>>>> with just one 8800 GTX. My overclocking experience in Vista is no
>>>> different than XP Pro. If anything, it seems more stable. I would have
>>>> figured otherwise with all the negative stuff I have heard and did
>>>> experience while participating since the alpha through the two RCs. I
>>>> did a clean install after testing on it's own partition for a while and
>>>> have had no problems whatsoever.
>>>>
>>>> Ed
>>> Hi Ed, good luck with Vista!
>>> Earlier, you said you got 14348 in 3DMark06 with both video cards
>>> installed.
>>> Now, you say you're getting "mid 10,000s" with one video card.
>>> I don't understand, can you clarify?
>>> With Vista and OCing, I'm getting poor shutdown, intermittent startup,
>>> and Explorer and other programs not always working properly.
>>> I suspect the functional problems are related to previous faulty shut
>>> downs.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jack R
>>>
>> 10282 with Aero and lots of junk turned on and 10446 by turning off
>> Aero and some other eye candy in Vista. Not a lot of difference there. I
>> have to check some other things and maybe other drivers because those
>> numbers do not seem correct for a single GTX. It should be down in the
>> 8000s somewhere actually. 3DMark06 acted a bit funny and didn't pause
>> between some of the tests like it usually does.........Don't know what is
>> going on. The main glitch I have with Vista is opening the Outlook
>> newsreader from Outlook Mail (Office XP) but that wouldn't be OC'ing
>> related since everything else seems to work fine. There are a few older
>> programs that will not work, but I expected some of those. Partition
>> Magic 8 and Nero 6 are two of those. I kept my original OC'ing settings
>> from XP Pro when moving to Vista Ultimate and had no problems with the
>> install or anything else (knock on wood). Like I said, I would take those
>> 3DMark06 scores with a grain of salt at this point because I am pretty
>> sure they are bogus looking at some of the other 8800 GTX scores in
>> Vista.
>>
>> Ed
> Hi Ed,
> With my E6600, evga 8800 GTS, at 3.0GHz, I get 3DMark06 of 8630. When I OC
> the video card, I can get up to 10,209.
> What video drivers are you using? I'm using 7.15.11.6003, 4/27/07
> (unreleased)
> It would be interesting to see a back-to-back comparison of one video card
> vs. two.
> Thanks,
> Jack R
>
I am using the new drivers released Fri I believe........at least
sometime last week. Check www.guru3d.com and they are the latest Vista
drivers. I am going to do a reinstall of 3dmark06 and see if something went
wrong there. Your GTS should be pretty close to the GTX when you overclock
it. I have the EVGA Superclocked GTXs and they are oveclocked from the
factory and I really don't think I will go further. They seem to run
anything I need to do very well. Let me know and I will run it single and
double and we can compare notes. I originally was going to use 2 GTSs
instead of GTXs and I would like to see how they compare in similiar systems
too.

Ed