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Overclocking
Well
here's where things go worse. I did applaud the
extreme stability of the board but then the RAM
chips on the vanilla GeForce2 MX outright SUCKS.
I don't know who decided to save off on the ram
chips but these are really bad performers. Anyway,
as I said earlier, the card is underclocked by
default. I wonder why? Anyway, I tested the core
and they were good enough to go to 200 mhz but
the ram was stuck at 175mhz or lower. Now that
really sucks.
Quake
3 1.17
I
took benchmarks of the card running at 166 mhz
and 143 mhz memory speeds.
How
low can you go? This is boring. The gains from
overclocking (to NVIDIA spec speed) aren't much.
See as the performance dies as the limit is brought
down on the memory bandwidth. And they are thinking
of using 64-bit SDR on these things? Utter madness.
On
a more serious note, if you're going to buy an
MX for a non-DIYer, I suggest you get a different
brand. See the MX143? Now that's your vanilla
Gainward. The MX166 is everyone else's vanilla.
Who would want an underclocked board? Well I'm
sure not your grandmother. Unless it's free of
course =).
Benchmarks
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