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Overclocking my Nvidia 6200 (Read 1580 times)
Dec 30th, 2006 at 1:24pm

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I got FSX a couple months ago and have been tweaking everything in sight ever since Grin. However, I just thought about overclocking my graphics card, and possibly my CPU. I used coolbits to try and overclock my Nvidia GeForce 6200. It's the PCI version with 128 MB of memory Tongue. Every time I would move up the core clock or the memory speed up at all, I would hit the Test button, but when I would hit apply, my computer would freeze. I shut it down, and when it came back up it said the system had recovered from a serious error Cry. So I decided to try to use the "Detect Optimal Frequencies" function. Hit the button, I got to about the last block of the test sequence thing and then it shut down-came back up, same result as manual overclocking Sad. Any suggestions Huh?


Also, I would really like to try and overclock my processor as well, but how would I do that? I have an HP computer with an Intel Celeron D Processor running at 2.52 GHz, with 1 G of RAM, running Windows XP, if that helps. Not sure about the motherboard.


While I'm at it, I might as well ask if anybody knows of any better PCI cards than what I have? I know there isn't much room for improvement on a PCI slot, but might as well ask. My budget is flexible, but preferably under $200. My 6200 runs @ 350 Mhz core clock, and 400 Mhz memory clock.

SmileyThanks in advance for the help!!!
 

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Reply #1 - Dec 30th, 2006 at 6:49pm

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i would not bother trying to overclock the 6200.  my pc came with one but i changed it to a 7900gt as the 6200 is basicaly a bottom of the line card.

thats what i was told when i asked about o/c'ing my 6200 anyway.

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edit:  just noticed that its not the pci-express version you have..but i would imagine my answer still applies.
 
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Reply #2 - Dec 30th, 2006 at 10:36pm

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Vavavoom: 2 things

#1-thanks for the tip-i'll try something else. guess i'll be looking for more tweaks Roll Eyes

#2-I love the car! Wink  Cheesy What is it? Huh I want one!  Shocked

Thanks again for the help.
 

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Reply #3 - Dec 31st, 2006 at 10:18am

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its a jaguar xk-r

i want one to...but they are a bit out of my price range   Grin

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Reply #4 - Dec 31st, 2006 at 4:56pm

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Just one thing- A 6200 is definately NOT a bottom of the line card. I have a GeForce FX5500 (see below) and I can run almost all my games at max settings.
 

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Reply #5 - Dec 31st, 2006 at 7:18pm

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Thanks for your help everybody.

Vavavoom- It's way outta my price range too. But still, we can dream, right? Grin

Bad_at_FS- from what I hear, that's pretty impresive for an FX 5500-is it PCI? AGP? PCI Express?
 

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Reply #6 - Jan 1st, 2007 at 8:33am

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Basically the 6200 should run FSX pretty nice as i assume its not DX9c, so it doesn't have to render the water and stuff Smiley
 

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Reply #7 - Jan 1st, 2007 at 6:43pm

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I checked, and I know I'm running DX 9.0C-is that bad? Do I need to get a different version? Also, FSX probably doesn't run as well as it could because it's a PCI card. I don't have any AGP or PCI-Express slots though. Should I get a motherboard that has those? If so, what kind?
 

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Reply #8 - Jan 4th, 2007 at 9:09pm

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6200 isnt a bad card for FS9... it IS DX9... like the 6600 and 6800 however don't expect much out of it, because its a locked up 6600. Basically you have 4 pixel pipelines and a 450Mhz core..... I could only overclock mine by 25Mhz and it was a noticable improvement, but not enough to max games out, With the right hardware a 6200 MIGHT max out FS9 with payware etc.... I have one around here, I put it in my HP and it worked great for a while at least. For overclocking, don't bother... you wont get much!

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Reply #9 - Jan 4th, 2007 at 10:02pm

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Gunny-thanks for the tip-i'll go ahead and give up on that-I'm assuming that the 6200 you referred to was a PCI-E card, and since mine is PCI, there's definitely no hope Tongue. Oh well. Any suggestions for a better PCI card?
 

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Reply #10 - Jan 4th, 2007 at 11:37pm

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mine was AGP. I'd reckon save your cash and get an entirely new rig once vista and DX10 are around, what are your specs?

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Reply #11 - Jan 5th, 2007 at 11:01pm

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I have 2 open PCI slots, no AGP, PCI-E slots, a 2.52 ghz Intel Celeron Processor, not sure about the motherboard, 1 G of ram, running windows xp SP2. Does that help at all? let me know if that isn't enough info. thanks!
 

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Reply #12 - Jan 6th, 2007 at 1:47pm

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You may want to save up what money you can, and once Vista is out get a decent Dual core Computer at stores like best buy etc with PCI-E Slot.... I bought mine for 489 my specs are in sig, Also for 100 more I got a nice 19 inch wide. My guess is a decent mid priced Vista computer would do you fine as long as it had a PCI-E slot etc....

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Reply #13 - Jan 6th, 2007 at 2:07pm

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What brand is it? That's a really nice computer for 489 Shocked. is all that stuff besides the monitor standard? or did you add stuff to it? I've seen some nice computers made by E-machines @ Bestbuy, but I've heard that the quality isn't that great. are they just kind of throwaway computers? For what they had in them, they should have cost about 7 or 800 dollars, but they were like 300 or so. Thanks for the suggestion.

P.S. sorry to ask so many questions, but im just trying to figure everything out right now Wink. FSX likes to confuse me Grin.
 

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