I am the semi-proud owner of an eMachine equipped with an MSI MS-7173 motherboard, Pentium 4 3GHz, 1024MB PC-400 RAM, and the puny ATI xPress 200 IGP chipset. I was curious if anyone has ever successfully overclocked the GPU, asI am planning on buying a far better card. However, I would like to see what I can do with what it has before I replace it, regardless of the damage it will do. Please post a link to a site or at least explain how you managed to do so.
2007-04-15 19:10:06 · 2 answers · asked by Darkwraith83 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
First things first, you are going to want to add some extra cooling to the adapter. You can get a heatsink with a fan for the chip at any repair shop.
Then you are going to want to go get Rivatuner or CoolBits(I don't remember which one works with ATI), that should give you options to edit the clock speed of your adapter. Then just increase in increments.
Keep in mind that any damage you do to the onboard adapter could potentially harm the other components on your motherboard.
2007-04-15 19:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not worth it. Just buy a discrete video card and do the overclocking there. You might be lucky, some cards give performance gain that will totally surprise you.
2007-04-15 19:31:30 · answer #2 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋