What a difference a bit of overclocking makes...

[Geeky1]

The screenshots in this post and the two following this are from 3DMark 2001SE, 2003, and 2005 (aquamark and doom 3 to come). They're off my laptop; the first score in each post is with the graphics card at stock speeds, the second one is with it overclocked.

For those of you that don't know, the laptop is a Dell XPS with a 3.4GHz P4, a 9800m/256MB, and 1GB of dual channel PC3200 DDR.

The stock clock is 350MHz/300MHz (GPU/RAM)
The overclocked speed is 450MHz/435MHz (GPU/RAM)

2001SE:

[Geeky1]

2003:

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2005:

[EMT]

That's awesome, make sure you keep it properly cooled when it's going that fast (there must be SOME reason they didn't put it so high on stock!)... I guess the bench result is pretty unsurprising given the sheer MHz you got by overclocking, but that overclocking factor is pretty amazing. Nice one.

[RWB]

Great now I am tempted to spend money I don';t have on a better cooler for my 9800 XT/Pro

[Geeky1]

Use a CPU heatsink ;)

[RWB]

I was thinking about that cooler everyone's been talking about, looking it up now. Hopefully it won't cost more than $30 shipped.

[Geeky1]

the cpu heatsink works better :p

[entropy]

You do realize, don't you (who am I kidding? Of course you do :mad: ) that your laptop dangles my desktop by its balls? :(

[Geeky1]

Entropy: Yes, yes I do. :D

Doom 3 scores (Highest quality texture setting in ATi's driver control panel, 1024x768 @ Ultra quality in game, no ATi-specific tweaks):
Stock: 29.1FPS
450/435: 39.9FPS

Aquamark (stock first, overclocked to 450/435 second):