Overclocking geforce 5200 FX Help Please

SpamDOSSpamDOS
edited August 2007 in Hardware
Hello,
I am new to overclocking and have just started overclocking my XFX GeForce 5200 FX 256MB graphics card. I am using Riva Tuner with coolbits and have so far managed Core Clock at 300MHz and Memory Clock at 400MHz I am using Aquamark 3 to test for stability (as 3D Mark 03 doesnt work and according to others doesnt with this card???) Anyway this is the best I have got... has anyone else done better and is my OC limited by the heat of my graphics card, if so whould adding a water block for the graphics card help this. Any suggestions and comments would be a grate help. Thanks Tim

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  • tmh88tmh88 Pittsburgh / Athens, OH
    edited September 2005
    Your not going to be able to get much more out of that card. I'd suggest upgrading. I had a geforce 5700LE and I oc'd it alot and saw no major preformance difference, so i just bought a new card. Even if you add a water block you could make it faster, but nothing compared to the 6800 line of cards or the x800's. Sure it would help alot, but nothing extremely drastic.
  • tefftamtefftam
    edited June 2006
    Hey guys???sup ...i was just wonderring....if u guys can help me out here..??..i have a video card fx 5200...and my pc is pentium 3..with 512RAM..and 600mhz....then ...How fast should i over clock my video card?? Do u have any idea ???...thanks...later..:wave:
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited June 2006
    I'd leave it alone to be perfectly honest. You're only going to get a little boost out of it and it's a very low end card now. Basically what 'tmh88' above said also applies to you.
  • Xavier-HollandXavier-Holland Rockville, Maryland
    edited June 2006
    Okay I just wanted to help out here as much as I can. YES, IT IS POSSIBLE TO OVERLOCK YOUR 5200FX to some of the most amazing speeds. I keep mine at a safe speed with several different profiles of course with a wonderful program I am sure everyone has heard of OR SHOULD HAVE HEARD OF by now. It's PowerStrip. It's been featured in Maximum PC and Performance PC so there's nothing worry about here. I just got it about a week ago after revisiting one of my older video card machines and trying to run DooM3 with a 5200 on a friend's eMachine. Both of us, were successful. Grab a snack and read this!

    This is gonna be a really cool thing to tell some people about and hopefully some of the fancy tech guys floating around will remember this. This program Power Strip I was talking about allows you to even Force OpenGL on DUAL MONITORS!!! Which Nvidia'sDisplay Options on it's most recent driver update only allows you to play with refresh rates and simple monitor tricks. PowerStrip is actually the Vcard. It enables you to overclock your engine clock, your memory clock. And do it SAFELY. Without flashing bios, resetting bios, or updating bios. It's REAL OK. Just because this is my first post don't think I'm an idiot and lying. I'm serious and brought screenshots to prove it. You can even disable AGP graphics if your 5200 is PCI and you've got a lesser card sitting in the AGP slot. You can force mipmap, linear, opengl, disable direct 3d, or direct draw, and everything works out fine. I've tested it and took some small screenshots to show people how far I've bumped mine up and not had one single problem running DooM3 on either my 7800GTX which now tops over the most recent FalconNorth bundled 4.8Ghz computer with a 7800GTX in fps on Q4 and that's on my alienware 3.6Ghz. With PowerStrip.:) So I'm happy about that.

    Back to the 5200FX:
    I am only running a 1.8AMD Sempron with the 5200FX in it so far as the actual computer we're talking about I have the 5200 AGP in. But just to show you it's real I took some screenshots so everybody can see for yourself in jpeg that it's most definitely nifty and neat little tool you can run in the background even shareware free with no trial versions. The only negative here gentlemen? If you overclock that 5200FX engine clock above 400, be prepared to lose that fan on it. Leave it under 350 ok? TRUST ME ON THIS. LEAVE IT UNDER 350. LEAVE IT UNDER 350. LEAVE IT UNDER 350Mhz or you will be so sorry you are going to regret having ever doubted me ok? It doesn't matter if it's PCI or AGP as I have both. And I am going to tell you ONE MORE TIME. LEAVE IT UNDER 350 in the engine clock meter section of PowerStrip. OR YOU WILL BEG FOR FORGIVENESS FROM THE HOLY LORD OF PC'S himself. And run the chance of frying what little budget card you have.

    First download the newest version of Nvidia's Geforce driver which should be 84. etc and so forth. As you should always have it to enable things like OpenGL on such an old card. But it's quite cool what the newest Nvidia version allows you to have, nonetheless and has some nice tweaks in it if you enable desktop profiles.
    Link: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_84.21.html

    With the 5200FX the Nvidia drivers will automatically be installed onto your hard drive sure. But some computers don't automatically install it to the card. Just to the drive as the install only detects Nvidia hardware and installs drivers. It doesn't update the actual card. As it didn't on Greg's eMachine. But guess what? You can make it.:)

    To do that,

    After downloading that driver packet and installing it to a directory.
    1.Install the packet from Nvidia, it should say you need to restart(Even in WinXP.)
    2.Boot, then go into control panel.
    3.Click System, Hardware, Device Manager.
    4.Expand Display Adapters, and right click,"Nvidia GeForce5200FX."Click update driver.
    5.Don't let it connect to the internet, click not at this time. And click next.
    6.Click Install from a specific location. Point it towards the C:\Nvidia\Win2KXP\84.21\ directory. The Ok button should now become available. Push it to install.
    7.Install, reboot one more time.

    Now your drivers are up to date and actually installed FOR THE CARD. Not just installed.


    Now after you installed Nvidia drivers the first time you should have seen the desktop nvidia display in your bottom right taskbar next to the clock. I want you to take the time to setup all your gamme corrections and thoroughly become familiar with all your new found options. Cool stuff right? It even has custom profiles in one of the tabs for games.:) And each one has options that it can now control for you on your 5200FX. Whose ready to overclock just a teeny bit more out of their little bitty 5200?

    Download PowerStrip.
    http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm
    Install. Reboot.

    Listen to me. Please, listen to me one more time. It may work on your computer for some ungodly reason not known to me. But I would strongly strongly recommend leaving your engine clock under 350. I'm running 354. And as soon as you hit 400, you're gonna see something um. Probably, not wanted in alot of applications, the card's fan kicks off on both AGP and PCI. And things start crashing violently sometimes until you lower it again.
    Screenshots of the 1.8AMDSempron computer with a true 5200FX being overclocked without BIOS setups:
    (click thumbnail to view)
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    Screenie:
    <a href="http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/viewimage?imageID=1666912739638888589"><img src="http://aycu08.webshots.com/image/1967/1666912739638888589_rs.jpg&quot; alt="Free Image Hosting at allyoucanupload.com"/></a>

    Thanks, for taking the time to read this. And I hope everyone squeezes a little more out of their older computers or their budget cards. I'd like to show you how to do the BIOS overclock but I'm afraid it's awfully unstable as opposed to this. And I wanted to see at least someone recognise the 5200FX can and WILL go over a 200Mhz.

    Once again thanks,
    Xavier Holland
  • red4ebared4eba
    edited May 2007
    informative post xavier, but i have a 5200 fx ultra and when i used powerstrip when i put it at 350ish it wasnt as high up on the green to red bar. does this mean i can safely overclock it higher?

    dunno if "ultra" means that much but just wondering, thanks.
  • BuddyJBuddyJ Dept. of Propaganda OKC Icrontian
    edited May 2007
    On the FX 5200 Ultra, the stock core clock is 325 MHz. Pushing it to 350 isn't as big of a step, which is why your PowerStrip screen looked different.

    http://www.monster-hardware.com/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=84

    This site has some charts on possible overclocks for that card that you may find helpful.
  • nautilusnautilus
    edited August 2007
    Xavier Holland,
    I did all you said and yet I still get a poor video stream, by poor video stream I mean a green screen in wmp.
    This never happened with my previous nvidia card...any tips will be appreciated.

    My cpuz is:
    cpuz.gif

    What do you suggest? :)
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  • nautilusnautilus
    edited August 2007
    nautilus wrote:
    Xavier Holland,
    I did all you said and yet I still get a poor video stream, by poor video stream I mean a green screen in wmp.
    This never happened with my previous nvidia card...any tips will be appreciated.

    My cpuz is:
    cpuz.gif

    What do you suggest? :)
    My screen savers were rough with jagged artefacts with your settings. When I lowered them a bit this seemed to stop the problem.
    Any tips regarding the green screen in wmp? Reducing the acceleration helps but the pic is not as smooth.
    Can powerstrip help here?
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