On a video card, what's better, a 10 MHz core overclock or a 50 MHz memory overclock?

Question

And is there a ratio in performance for memory clock vs core clock?

Your all retarded, I know how to overclock, the risks, and how minimal the performance gain is in this example. You don't need aftermarket cooling, the core clock is more important than the memory clock, and it is an amazing way to build a high end system for less. On a $100 board and stock cooling I easily overclocked an e4300 up to ~3 Ghz stable. So instead of performing like an e4300 ($115), it performs like an x6800 ($945). And apparently you know nothing about video cards, or you would know how huge of a performance gain you can get from a simply 100 MHz overclock on the core and 200-300 MHz on the memory. I just wanted to figure out if there was a ratio between core and memory overclocking in terms of performance gains. So thanks for nothing, chumps.

Answer 1

50 DEFINATELY

Answer 2

Zero overclock is better than both of them.

You just aren't going to get much of a performance improvement from such small overclocking anyway and will void your warranty in the process as well as the potential to introduce stability issues.

For serious performance gains from overclocking anything you need to buy aftermarket coolers and by the time you've done that you've probably spent more money than you'd have paid if you just bought a faster card in the first place.

There is never a fixed ratio between the various clock speeds though there are somethings where the clock speed just doesn't matter, graphics card memory clock probably matters more than system RAM clock although that isn't really saying much (because the speed of your system RAM has almost no impact on performance due to all the caching that happens).

Answer 3

Overclocking is a technique that came and should have gone. Back in the days when processors were slower than they now are, overclocking was a cheap way to wring out a bit more performance. But processors now are working on the edge of thermal stability, and if you try to squeeze out more speed, your chip may become toast. Furthermore, it isn't very useful, as the processor speed is not the limiting factor on performance -- it's the speed of the RAM. Bottom line: don't do it.

Answer 4

I wouldn't overclock a video card because I doubt you'll see a performance gain if you knew the internals of how GPUs and CPUs work together.