So… overclocking.

My main system is a Q6600 with 4GB of 400Mhz DDR2 (e.g. 800Mhz). This is slightly overclocked to 2.64Ghz (lit. 2637.7Mhz) and 439.6Mhz for the RAM. It used to be higher but I think I burnt out the ram and this new batch doesn’t seem to like it. I did some benchmarks originally against fallout 3 and to be honest there wasn’t really anything in it, but it was stable so I left it.

Now… graphics. That runs at:

Core : 750Mhz
Memory : 900Mhz

It’s a 4870, a vapor if I remember correctly. So benchmark time, fallout 3 at:

1280×800
4xAA
8xAF
Everything else high.
View Distance and LOD Maxed.
VSync On
HDR On

Hard to say as there is no benchmark but a wander around outside megaton dropped to 45 approaching the front door from the back, most of the time it was a solid 60.

Core : 801Mhz
Memory : 950Mhz

Again hard to say but in the same perimeter walk it sat at 64-65. Although the frame rate plummeted the same amount when pulling around to the front of megaton where there is quite a sizable vista to draw. I’ll try some HL2 benchmarks at silly settings or something at some point.

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