how much can a nvidia 6200 256mb be overclocked and whats the best utility for overclocking?

Answer 1

as a ex nvidia 6200 owner,these cards are not designed to be overclocked,as most only use heatsink technology,which dosent give good enough cooling for overclocking
basically the nvidia 6200 chips(g.p.u) are really nvidia 6600 that dont make the grade,in other words when nvidia build the 6600 gpu,s quite a few get through the manufacturing process with a few pipelines missing,when there is enough of these so called "faulty cores" they become a new line in cards,in this case the 6200,s
some enthusiasts worked out a way to re-enable the faulty pipelines and thus realistically turning their 6200 gpu,s into 6600 cards,but nvidia soon grew to find this out and changed the process in which the cards were manufactured so this could not be done
if you really want to try overclocking the nvidia 6200 core,then make sure you attach soem extra ventelation to the card such as a Arctic Cooling NV6 Rev.2 (6600 Series) VGA Cooler(http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-019-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=787),this should help keep the tempeture down during the clock increases
the best overclocking utility for nvidia based cards is riva tuner from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download737.html
this is the safest(if you can call overclocking safe)of all overclocking utilitys,you can even save profiles ,so your p.c can boot up to a personal core speed
bare in mind though the 6200 core clock speed is 350mhz and a memory clock of 550mhz,so the core clock speed would only be safely overclocked to around 400mhz,thats the same clock speed as a 7600gs,however thats a satble 7600gs,your 6200 will be highly unstable,as like i have said,its probally one of the worst cards you could use for overclocking
any probs let me know
good luck mate!

Answer 2

There's little performance that you can gain from overclocking that card compared w/ overclocking cards with 8 pixel pipelines or more and w/ ddr2 or ddr3 onboard videoram.

Better get a 8600GT and overclock the hell out of it.
http://vr-zone.com/print.php?i=4925

Answer 3

if your gonna overclock it make sure you have a water cooling system or get one of those zalman fans for gfx cards and replace the orignal/heatsink with that