having trouble overclocking my video card.

[sycopathman]

i tried to overclock my video and it didn't gain any performance increase.
I have a geforce 2 mx pci.
Why don't i get an increase?

 

[HappyGamer2]

cpu limited maybe

 

[LuciferHaze]

HappyGamer2 is correct. On my oc'ed 883MHz Celeron and my Voodoo5-5500 AGP overclocked I see no performance increase as I am also CPU limited.

 

[pay]

Are you using powerstrip to overclock?

 

[V]

I assume you overclocked the video card memory too right? Memory is the bottleneck for Geforce2 MX's. What CPU do you have?

 

[sycopathman]

Someone said it was the pci bus i only get about 3-4 additional 3dmarks. He said i didn't have enought bandwidth.

 

[sycopathman]

Also how good is geforce 2 mx at playing dvd movies because i was going to buy a dvd player.
the cpu i have is a 550 mhz k63+ i would like to run it at 600 mhz but it gets to hot.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

The software dvd players have absolutely nothing to do with the video card, it will work the same with a gf2mx or a cheapo 4 meg trident card. You are wayyyyyyy cpu limited, thats your problem.

 

[DClark]

As mentioned above, your processor is the bottleneck - you could mate a GeForce2 GTS with the K6-3 and the performance increase would be negligable.

Here is a good AnandTech article about K6-2 and K6-3 upgrading.