Notice no difference!!

Gardinen · Apr 13, 2004, 02:00 PM

I overclocked my Sapphire Radeon 9700 non-pro into 360/300. Played and compared UT2004 with the stock settings (275/270), although I didn't notice any difference. Ofcourse there are some raise in the result of 3dMark01 and 03 but ingame, there is no noticable difference. Non that I know about.
Is there something wrong with me or with my computer, or is this just the way that it should be??

mkk · Apr 13, 2004, 04:02 PM

If you run UT2004 at a high resolution and/or use AntiAliasing then the limiting factor might be the graphics memory, wich wasn't overclocked that much. The rest of the system can also be a limiting factor depending on configuration.

Gardinen · Apr 13, 2004, 05:16 PM

hmm okey. tnx for that info. Well the memories didn't allow to be overclocked very much without showing artifacts. And 350 on the core is the highest I can get without showing any artifacts. And that's without any AA and AS filtering @ 1024*768 res.
Seems that the card is kind of crappy at overklocking

Though I am gonna replace the fan with the passive heatsink from Zalman + additonal fan. Maybe I can get a bit higher.
But since I did not notice any much of a difference, I don't care. I think that I'll check out the Radeon x800XT, or what the heck the name was, and see how it performs. Maybe I'll buy it