Geforce2 MX

[aprentez]

I just bought the Geforce2 mx...it was an dissappointment. Maybe its just isnt the best (amd k6-2 300) but i didnt experience any major fps-boosts that i had expected.
Then i read a overclock guide here on anandtech and realized that i could overclock the gpu. I did exactly as it said but when its overclocked, i cannot play any games.
I thought it would do really well because i have a small heatsink and a fan on it.
Whats wrong?

 

[SiliconVandal]

I don't want to be an ass, but I don't think your going to get much of a FPS boost on that CPU

 

[DarkMajiq]

aprentez, you're not seeing any performance boost because you're limited by your CPU. If you want to overclock something to get more performance, overclock your processor.

 

[Mem]

aprentez,your cpu is the bottleneck when I had a celeron 333mhz I was still using my TNT1 card,now I`ve 900T-bird my Geforce2 MX is the bottle neck.

 

[Instig8r]

You are definitely limited by the central processing unit, but at least you may play games at just about every single resolution and not experience a performance drop; this is the one advantage of having a system that is limited by the CPU.

 

[aprentez]

ok...
But why doenst any games work when i overclock the Geforce?

 

[Confused]

it may be because you've overclocked the GPU by too much, and is just gonna lock up in games, it's like overclocking a CPU too much, it'll just lock up. reduce the overclock a little, or if you are saying that by overclocking it you don't get a performance increase, put it back to default whils you still have that CPU, to increase the life span a little, and then when you do get a faster CPU, then you can overclock it.

 

[Drifter]

>Which Geforce 2 MX did you buy?

 

[Dark4ng3l]

a k6-2 300 is WAY too slow for a GF2MX.

 

[Assimilator1]

Their is absolutely no point in overclocking your MX2 when its being run with a K6-2 300! ,like the others said ,its the cpu that's holding you back.BTW If your lucky you'll get that K6-2 300 to about 350MHz

 

[arod324]

Yep, when I had my Voodoo 3 2000 and AMD K6-2 300, I would get the exact same framerate no matter what resolution I set it at. (Your cpu is a HUGE bottleneck right now)

 

[Rankor]

A V3 board would be nice for that K6-2 300 (actually a K6-2 550 would be better).

A Duron 700, Celery 566 oc'd to 850, or an equivalent proc with a GF2 MX board would be fine for a budget gaming system.

 

[Jeff7]

If you want to stick with Socket 7, and if your board will support it, the K6-3+ 450 is a good choice. They can usually do 600Mhz+ at 2.1v. I think that they are based on the Duron core, and they have 256kB cache running at core speed. Otherwise, you might be better off jumping into a socket a motherboard with a Duron processor. You'd get at least a 2x performance increase.

 

[aprentez]

Ok...now i dropped my plans of buying a 500 K6-2 and is now thinking of a new motherboard and a new CPU...my friends say that i can get this for about 140$(Celeron 700)...is that cheap or expensive and is it worth?
Maybe i should get a Duron instead?

 

[Dark4ng3l]

That celeron would be a good value(if overclocked) a duron might be a tad more expensive but it would be alot faster in games.

 

[aprentez]

Not a specific brand...
just sais POINT OF VIEW all over the package...

 

[Assimilator1]

Jeff7
The K6-3+ & Duron are totally different processors ,no link.