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I have an Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 and was wondering if overclicking would hurt it/fry it. I was planning on overclocking it to 300mhz.
It has a small heatsink with a fan but i have a decent sized side case fan blowing right onto it.
I read a review somebody got 2000 more 3dmark points by overclocking and I think thats a good gain.
Do you guys think i'll hurt it?
using coolbits ?
or by increasing the external clock through the BIOS?
If its coolbits, you will not be allowed to apply the new settings without running a 'test'. Only if the card passes the test, you can apply the new settings. And, the speeds that coolbits will allow you will be very safe, often not much more than the default for the core itself.
Kailas Shastry
3000+ Venice, A8N-E, 768MB DDR266, 160GB Barracuda, 380W Cooler Master
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I was going to use riva tuner but i can't figure out how to use that, coolbits messed with me registry but how do I overclock!?!?!
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Ok I found out how to overclock and it found out that optimal was 300mhz core but i undid the memory change and kept the memory defualt and am letting the core move up to 300mhz.
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Even you overclock your fx5200, you won't get much gains because it will be bottlenecked by your "Amd Duron 850mhz/256mb ram".. If the card is 64bit memory interface, then even pointless to overclock...
TMP-Man
Asus P5P800-SE PAT
P4 506 @ 4009Mhz 1.3625v
Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 1700RPM 92MM + AS5
2GB OCZ 2-3-2-5 DDR400
120GB/300GB 7200RPM HD
Leadtek 7600 AGP 590/1600 VF700 ALCU AS5
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I did not see the other system specs.
You will gain from from a RAM upgrade than from anything else, TMP-man as pointed out. Get at least another 256MB RAM from somewhere - beg, borrow, steal... and see your system response increase by leaps and bounds.
For all new and most games 12-18 months old, your processor will be another bottleneck. With a total of 512MB RAM and a slightly overclocked still_a_5700, another slight overclock on the Duron as well, a game that was framing earlier may just about become playable. But an un-playable game will not become playable.
What I am saying is, with some upgrade and o/c, those games that were just at the border of 'playable-unplayable' will get playable and thats about it.
Kailas Shastry
3000+ Venice, A8N-E, 768MB DDR266, 160GB Barracuda, 380W Cooler Master
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It's the 128bit version with 256mb of DDR memory.
The memory was 200mhz defualt so i raised that to 230 and atrificating occured at 245mhz so I thought 230mhz should be safe here are me 3dmark 2001 SE scores.
NO OC:3408
OC(core only): 3632
OC (core an memory): 3721To think some people with faster processors get 9000 with this card :P
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"To think some people with faster processors get 9000 with this card"
I don't know where you're coming up with the 9000 number, what version of 3DMark you're running, or what settings you're using, but the 9000 score is totally out of whack.
Take a look at the following charts using 3DMark 2003. The FX5200 scores 1550 with AA/AF turned off...with 4x AA/8x AF, it only scores 740! And the system used for testing is a P4 3.2GHz/800FSB CPU with 1GB RAM:
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protohunter,
You need to remember that there is an FX5200 Ultra that is not to be confused with the plain FX5200, also there are different settings under which benchmarks are conducted & you'll need to be figured into the equation too.
Just because someone is getting 9000 (3DMark 2001 SE) with 800x600 resolution does not mean you will get the same using 1280x1024 resolution or even 1024x768.
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The higher the res the more stress it puts on your graphics card.
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
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Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI
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