Overclocking the GeForce2 MX

Overclocking the Memory

Things are finally beginning to seem a bit more useful. Our Hyundai 6ns SDRAM was able to hit 210MHz pretty reliably. The 27% increase in memory clock yielded quite a noticeable improvement at 1024 x 768 all the way up to 1600 x 1200 in 16-bit color. While it's obvious that simply increasing the memory clock to 210MHz isn't curing the MX of its memory bandwidth bottleneck, at 1024 x 768 we see a 12% improvement in performance which isn't bad at all.

You get much more bang for your overclocking buck under 32-bit color. Once again, we're increasing the memory clock from 166MHz to 210MHz, an increase of 27%, and at 1024 x 768 x 32 we get a 27% increase in performance which translates into a 1% increase in performance for every 1MHz you overclock the memory clock on the GeForce2 MX. Can you see how badly the GeForce2 MX wants a faster memory clock?