Vid Card OC question

Ok, for the past few months I've overclocked my video card using Powerstrip
(shareware version)

now, at first i got a good solid 100fps in Counterstrike. However, that has
steadily declined for 2 months until now, I get around 60-80 fps.

Does the vid card need to be replaced? can I do anything to fix this?

damnit, so i have to bite the bullet and get a new one.

So any reccomendations besides a radeon 9800 which just isnt happening.


"MiniDisc_2k2" <> wrote in message
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> Yup. Sounds like your video card is just degrading. Happens to all
> overclockers.
>
>

60-80 still isn't that bad (but this is coming from a person with a $70
video card, but that'll get fixed soon). But if you really want a good card
for a good price, I'd recommend the GeForce4 line. They're cheap right now
because they aren't the best, but you can still get a pretty good card.
Radeon 9700 should be dropping in price too.

install your windows anew, if your videocard goes bust, it shows through
artifacts, rebooting, locking up etc.
This seems more like a clean install might do wonders...
you do NOT need a new videocard (unless you WANT to buy a new one, then my
advice is best ignored

regards,
cornelis

"Michael Hughes" <dapaintschmuck**IZASEXYBEAST**@rcn.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, for the past few months I've overclocked my video card using
Powerstrip
> (shareware version)
>
> now, at first i got a good solid 100fps in Counterstrike. However, that
has
> steadily declined for 2 months until now, I get around 60-80 fps.
>
> Does the vid card need to be replaced? can I do anything to fix this?
>
>

MiniDisc_2k2 wrote:
> Yup. Sounds like your video card is just degrading. Happens to all
> overclockers.

wtf?, i never heard of that before, surely you would just get more artifacts
at the same speed rathe than jsut frame rtate going down?


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P.S. A video card doesn't just slow down for no reason. Sure it could be the
cpu or something but I doubt that you'd get a 40fps drop in 2 months (40%)

OK, but without the clock speeds changing, the speed of the graphics card is
not magically changing by any other means. If the card degrades, as can
happen, the speed will stay constant but it may become unstable or show
artefacting, requiring the clock speed to be lowered.

This problem strikes me as far more likely to be somewhere in the graphics
settings. Perhaps settings like AF have been enabled accidentally etc.

Also look for the usual suspects - defrag the hard disc and check there are
no background programs that you don't want there - many programs like
Winamp, Acrobat and MS Office have processes running to enable the
application to start with less delay. Unfortunately that tends to slow down
every other app. Also remove any spyware type stuff. Plenty of programs
can do this automatically.

"MiniDisc_2k2" <> wrote in message
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> P.S. A video card doesn't just slow down for no reason. Sure it could be
the
> cpu or something but I doubt that you'd get a 40fps drop in 2 months (40%)
>
>