Third World Overclocking

[enrimaiden]

Hi... here is how we overclock in Argentina were money is really an issue :P

I just took and old fan I had from a dead power supply and "cautiously" attached it to the heatsink; a nice screw and a piece of those plastic things with which you tie bags. Yeah, preatty neat!
Anyway.. as you may have noticed it's a freaking FX5200 so I'm not too worried about it getting directly to hell
Original clock speeds (core 250 - mem 330 mhz) hit 893 3dmarks in 3dmark03 yeahhhh superb! :confused: ; after some light overclocking (core 294 - mem 360) it reached 1093 3dmarks, that's a nice difference I guess, no hangs or arctifacts so far, no snow, no nothing!
Anyway, now you can see what I'm cooling the card with, I'd like to know how far you think I could push both clocks.. I'm waiting for your wise advice! :eek: ;)

 

[pelvis_3]

How far could you push it you say?
Well, probably more if you had a better cooling setup, but either way, the FX5200 was not a very good overclokcer by any means. So far, it's doing alright.
Also, 893 marks for that card seem pretty low, what specs you running?

 

[enrimaiden]

How far could you push it you say?
Well, probably more if you had a better cooling setup, but either way, the FX5200 was not a very good overclokcer by any means. So far, it's doing alright.
Also, 893 marks for that card seem pretty low, what specs you running?

My specs are in my profile, colud it be I'm getting such a low mark because of 3dmark config? I've left all settings as "default" to test different clock speeds accurrately.. and default means 1024x768 which I think this card doesn't cope up to well with :ff:

 

[pelvis_3]

I'm not sure why your getting low marks, but you should by default get about 1300, but take this with a grain of salt, as 3DMark is known to be inaccurate and to favour Radeon cards :cool:

My specs are in my profile

They aren't

 

[ninja fetus]

hahahaha I did that in a PC sitting right next to me! it works pretty good too hahahaha screwed a power supply fan on a video card heatsink hahaha

 

[Willz]

my bfg oc 5200 that i sold for £45 on ebay said that it had 280mhx core v 250mhz core, and funny thing is, the cores was still 250mhz.

enrimaiden, try 3d mark 01 se, if you dont have it, download the free version from futuremark.
on 3d mark 01 se, you should be getting about 4000-6000 3d marks.

 

[Big B]

It's not so much 3rd world overclocking as much as what's simply referred to as ghetto mods...at least here in the states. Also see 'engineering on a budget'. Some people do what you've done...it's not pretty, but it works. I've got a little ghetto modding in my main rig, but it's hidden out of sight. The main thing is making sure that you're covering up any exposed wire or you risk getting a ghetto mod electrocution.

 

[enrimaiden]

I'm not sure why your getting low marks, but you should by default get about 1300, but take this with a grain of salt, as 3DMark is known to be inaccurate and to favour Radeon cards :cool:


They aren't

Sorry, now they are!

enrimaiden, try 3d mark 01 se, if you dont have it, download the free version from futuremark.
on 3d mark 01 se, you should be getting about 4000-6000 3d marks

Yeah!, had thought of that, but what's the point of getting 4000-6000 3dmarks in 01se if I'm interested in playing the latest games around like, lets say CoD2, efficiently. I think 3dMark03 is the right tool if I have that goal... isn't it?

It's not so much 3rd world overclocking as much as what's simply referred to as ghetto mods...at least here in the states. Also see 'engineering on a budget'.

It's great you mentioned it, it means there are more probabilities it works... I looped benchmark for 6 hours and temp is great (altough I don't know precisely how much; is there any soft around to tell me my GPU temp? it's an Nvidia card with Omega drivers but advanced properties don't show a temp option) I, alternatively use my finger to check :confused:
clocks are now core 294 - mem 360 and temp is great

 

[Willz]

the point of using 3d mark 01 se, is that i think the FX 5200 is more suited to 3d mark 01, as 3d mark 03 is pushing it.

 

[enrimaiden]

Hi... this is how my overclocking experience went:

At first, this were the results from 3dmark 03 with every setting set to "default"

Primary Device NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Omega 1.6693) (P)
Width 1024
Height 768
Anti-Aliasing None
Post-Processing No
Texture Filtering Optimal
Max Anisotropy 4
Vertex Shaders Optimal
Force PS 1.1 in GT2 & GT3 No
Repeat Tests Off
Fixed Framerate Off
Comment
3DMark Score 893 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury 38,7 FPS
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 4,5 FPS
GT3 - Troll's Lair 4,2 FPS
GT4 - Mother Nature 6,5 FPS
CPU Score 325 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 34,7 FPS
CPU Test 2 6,1 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 241,0 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 259,7 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 4,8 FPS
Pixel Shader 2.0 6,6 FPS
Ragtroll 3,0 FPS
No sounds 22,4 FPS
24 sounds 19,9 FPS
60 sounds 18,5 FPS
Family AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+
Internal Clock 1662 MHz
External Clock 133 MHz
Description NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Omega 1.6693) (P)
Total Local Video Memory 128 MB
Driver Version 6.6.9.3
VGA Memory Clock 331 MHz
VGA Core Clock 250 MHz
Total Physical Memory 256 MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP

After pushing bost clocks till finding arctifacts and system lock ups this is what I got:

Primary Device NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Omega 1.6693) (P)
Width 1024
Height 768
Anti-Aliasing None
Post-Processing No
Texture Filtering Optimal
Max Anisotropy 4
Vertex Shaders Optimal
Force PS 1.1 in GT2 & GT3 No
Repeat Tests Off
Fixed Framerate Off
Comment
3DMark Score 1149 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury 49,7 FPS
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 5,9 FPS
GT3 - Troll's Lair 5,4 FPS
GT4 - Mother Nature 8,1 FPS
CPU Score 357 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 37,7 FPS
CPU Test 2 6,7 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 324,8 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 315,7 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 5,7 FPS
Pixel Shader 2.0 8,0 FPS
Ragtroll 3,9 FPS
No sounds 23,7 FPS
24 sounds 21,1 FPS
60 sounds 19,5 FPS
Family AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+
Internal Clock 1662 MHz
External Clock 133 MHz
Description NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (Omega 1.6693) (P)
Total Local Video Memory 128 MB
Driver Version 6.6.9.3
VGA Memory Clock 419 MHz
VGA Core Clock 294 MHz
Total Physical Memory 256 MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP

I'm certainly not to proud of it, but you can see some improvement, and the GPU temperature it's excellent; it's a pitty higher clock frecuencies lock my system, for I'm sure it's not because of heating. :(