Don't laugh at me, but...

[Fermat]

Is it possible/worthwhile to overclock a PCI videocard? It is a Geforce2 Mx400 64mb/pci.
With as little money as I have after purchasing my dream machine, I need to do with what I have for a while in the realm of video card.
Any known apps that can help me out if so?
Thank you for your time.
JGS

[slim_lim]

Yes, certainly, you can overclock it. :) You may use a 3rd party program like Powerstrip or NvMax to do this or you can perform a registry hack (not as scary as it sounds) to enable overclocking right in Nvidia's display properties panel.
I hear MX400's are good overclockers, so you should be able to sqeeze out 10-15% more performance out of it easy.

[freddiedaman]

in this forum we try to help eachother, no laughs:) Do what slim suggests, I'd go with NVMax first of all if I were you, even if you have never OC:d before it is real easy...just look for the cute little sliders, move them a bit, and you're done! Easy as that:D

[Pinky]

ROTFLMAO!!!

:D ;) :p :beer:

:cool:

No, really, ROTFLMAO!!!!

Overclock that puppy 'til she screams Daddy!! (or dies from overheating :rolleyes: )

[Fermat]

:)
When this thing blows, will it destroy anything else on my expensive motherboard?
Cause Im jackin' the juice through the roof :mad:

[GoldenTiger]

Originally posted by Fermat
:)
When this thing blows, will it destroy anything else on my expensive motherboard?
Cause Im jackin' the juice through the roof :mad:

Don't worry, it will kill you too so you won't have to cry over what it destroyed :beer: ;).

[freddiedaman]

Yeah, just push it 'til she screams for mercy...!!:D :eek:

[Tracert]

the worse thing that ever happens to me during an over clocking bout is the system will freeze. Thats when you know to back off a bit on that one and try to find something else to bump up a little.

[thefly]

If you push the gpu to hard you'll burn the core and you'll be sans card.

The rule of thumb is, don't overclock anything you can't afford to replace.

[CrackedSKull]

Of course you should overclock it! Lower end/older cards still benifit a lot from o/c, and because they but out less heat(usually) than faster cards, it even easier to overclock.

I can get my tnt2 m64 125/145 stock up to 170/170 on a cool day(~20C room). Some games get 10-20% fps gains. All with stock heatsink(no fan). However, my pci cover is open below the agp, and my 120mm fan blows some air over the card(not very fast, because I have exaust fans too).