MX Ocing!

[sash1]

Okay, my friend is truly a moron when it comes to OCing. In fact, he's just a total moron when it comes to ANYTHING computer related (okay, well he knows the basics, but nothing more...).

He has an MX and wants to overclock. I know Nvidia chips are extremely lenient when it comes to overclocking (unlike the Kyro II, which I have ). Now, he says he's "playing it safe" when going to 200/200, and is afraid it won't work. I keep telling him you can go 200/300 and that'll still be safe. Now, I have no experience with GeForce overclocking (as I have never owned one), but I've seen the speeds you guys get, and notice you normally keep the memory speed significantly faster (2x faster...) than the core clock speed. Also, you normally OC a lot!

So, am I right in saying 200/300 is safe? How high have you guys gotten?

 

[Rand]

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So, am I right in saying 200/300 is safe? How high have you guys gotten? >>




If he was working to kill his RAM as fast as possible it might be viable... otherwise NO!!!

Remember, everyone that has their RAM clocked so much higher then the core clockspeed is using DDR SDRAM... double the theoretical bandwidth. They are stating the "theoretical" speed as though it was SDR memory. It's actual real world clockspeed is half that.
The vast majority of MX cards use SDR SDRAM.

I have nver heard of an MX running at 300MHz memory clock before, and I severely doubt any could. A more realistic number for the "average" MX is about 210-220, and if he wants to "play it safe" then he's probably about right at 200MHz memory clock, though he could probably go a bit higher on the core clock and still be pretty safe.

The one thing that is certain beyond a doubt is that he has not a prayer of managing a 300MHz memory clock speed.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I agree. Unless your friend plans on cooking dinner on his video ram, I would avoid overclocking the Ram to 300MHz. If your friend has a DDR MX that would mean his ram clock speed of 300MHz would actually be underclocking the board. However, there are very few MX boards out there that come with DDR ram because it is more expensive plus it offers no performance gain for the GF2 MX GPU. I am sure there are ocing programs out there that allow users to put it up that high (even on SDR boards), it won't be long before the card is burnt out.