[aggreenvln]

Hello,

I've had my MBP 17" 2.16 gHz for 6 months or so and I've been using it for gaming (mainly WoW). I recently decided to try to overclock my video card a bit on my windows xp partition, so I started looking around on the internet for resources. I downloaded Ati OmegaDrivers and overclocked to the recommended specs. It works fine, no overheating or anything, but when I was looking around on the internet I noticed that everyone else's specs seemed to be lightyears above mine. At default clock speeds, playing WoW on my OSX partition with medium graphics settings I get maybe 15-20 FPS. I thought it would get better when I switched to windows and overclocked some, but it hasn't. Even overclocked i'm still only getting 17-22 FPS with the same graphics settings. This was quite disturbing as I had read multiple threads about people getting upwards of 60 FPS with maximum graphics settings on OSX with no overclocking on the exact same machine I have! Mine isn't even half this, overclocked to 500/525 with medium graphics settings! To make things worse, I also read about overclocked benchmarks being around the 4500 range, and when I ran my benchmark it topped out at about 2300, overclocked! Is my MBP gimped? Am I doing something wrong?

[mduell]

Are you comparing to people with the desktop X1600 card or the mobile X1600 card? The desktop card is significantly faster than the mobile card.
Are you comparing to people running Windows or OSX? The performance in Windows is better than OSX.

[aggreenvln]

I'm comparing specifically to people with the same machine I have. Macbook Pro 17" 2.16gHz processor with 2GB of ram. Mobility X1600 256mb card. Even overclocking my card in windows, I'm still running less than half as well as what they claim to be running underclocked in OSX.