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Geforce2 MX

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aprentez

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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?
 
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.
 
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.

🙂
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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