Is there any harm in O/C'ing a Geforce 2 MX?

[Pretender]

The one I have only comes with a HS (no fan). I've already tried running it at 200mhz (default is 175) for a minute and it was fine, so I'm considering doing that perminantly. What is the norm. life of a video card, and how much would this be shortened by upping the clock speed on it by 15%? Are there any other things to consider?


I've O/C'ed processors before, but this is my first time with a video card.

 

[Adul]

if it can hang with it go ahead. If you want strap on a fan to cool it 🙂

 

[BFG10K]

As with overclocking any video card there is a risk of blowing the RAM on it. That means you'll have to run below stock speed thereafter to eliminate the artifacts caused by the overclocking damage.

 

[billyjak]

I have always oc/ed my video card and everyone works to this day.
It goes back a couple of years. besides technology on video cards is spinning out so fast that it will probably be outdated as you put it in.
A year from now you could buy the latest of today for peanuts.
Get max performance, oc/it.
Go to the highest setting where you see artifacts, then back it off a few notches and this will do you fine.
I have my Herc stock 200/333 running at 218/385 with no problems, picked up about 4-5% increase in frame rate.

 

[Sukhoi]

I believe the GeForce 2 MX is almost totally bandwith limited, so raising the processor speed probably won't do much. You'll get better performance by overclocking the RAM.

Read Anand's MX benchmarks. He has a few benchmarks showing the difference between a plain MX, and an overclocked MX (without the RAM being overclocked), and there was hardly any difference.