Has anyone destroyed their vid cards by overclocking? Specifically MX owners.

Spoooon

Lifer
Mar 3, 2000
11,563
203
106
Just curious. I killed my old MX, but was able to get a free replacement. I haven't overclocked the memory, but I just installed a blorb and have the core running at 200.
 

Mingon

Diamond Member
Apr 2, 2000
3,012
0
0
my creative MX died not sure if it was because of the overclocking or not.
 

MustangSVT

Lifer
Oct 7, 2000
11,554
12
81
killed my first radeon clocked at 210/210 from original 166/166. Odd thing is, it ran perfectly fine for 7 hrs, then next morning when i turned it on, i got this checkerboard screen with blue squares alternatingwith regular screen parts.

well my second one is runnin fine at 205/205 for months, but i still dont know why first one died.
 

Subversal

Senior member
Aug 22, 2000
617
0
0
Nope. Prophet 2 MX is stable at 200/225. Rock solid for months now. I've never killed a video card by accident :) On purpose is a different matter...
 

Looney

Lifer
Jun 13, 2000
21,938
5
0
I've never killed a vidcard myself, but i've seen it done a number of times... never heard of the card dying itself, but you'll fvck up your memory (right?) so that you end up with permanent artifacts like MustangSVT.

Personally, unless i can get more than 20% increase in performance, it's not worth it.

 

BaTTo

Member
Apr 30, 2000
40
0
0
I killed my Voodoo1 card many moons ago... and almost did the same to my CL Annihilatotor SDR (yes I was one of the nuts who o/c'd his Voodoo1 card).
Now I have a AIW Radeon (tried to o/c it but the DvD playback would currupt when it was o/c'd).
 

Spoooon

Lifer
Mar 3, 2000
11,563
203
106
I ruined the memory on my old MX by overclocking it too far. Underclocking the memory would decrease the artifacts, but they would come back after half an hour of playing.