overclocking my gainward nvidia gforce 4 mx420

[robb]

i think thats wot i have done lol

the are 2 clocks in the performance settings in the xpert tool and i have set these to just before the yellow par on the markers.

has anybody done this and is it worth doing it? i know the card onli has a heat sink so what about heat?

is it safe or does it become unstable if ya whack it up 2 full,cos i feel the card is pretty slow even tho its onli 64mb lol

thanks for the help



(sorry if its in the wrong forum but im new ! !)

 

[ChristopherP]

That REALLY was not a good idea!

Best to leave at defaults unles you know what you are doing

Still, it didn't catch fire so i guess you got lucky...

Run some games, see if it crashes or gets white dots all over the place, or crashes.

 

[robb]

wel ill just turn it down a bit

its not into the red, its still in the green

it says core clock is 282 and the memory is 436 so ill tak it down a bit

the compuer jst feels the same really no differances when playing games. (if there is its not noticable)

 

[ChristopherP]

Your lucky, you can cause serious damage doing things like that.

 

[robb]

ok m8 thanks for the advice. its right down now to safe setting.

 

[ChristopherP]

general rule of thumb: dont mess with things you arent sure about!

 

[Alf]

no kidding, flaming cards are not good for your computer.

 

[ChristopherP]

understatement of the year there...

 

[Moco]

on that card, your fine at those speeds you had it to, I know from experience, but when you do bump up your speed, make sure you wath your temps... but unless you push high yellow... your not gonna see any diff.

 

[Raje]

Hmm, maybe not the answer your looking for, but how about a cheap 128mb card?? Usually can find real cheap online, and it should look better than any over clocking done to a 64 MB one.

 

[Alf]

no kidding, twicce the memory!

 

[ChristopherP]

remember the higher the memory doesent necassarily mean a faster card...though addmittedly anything has got to be faster than an MX420!!!!