Overclocking

To find the maximum overclock of our card we used a combination of GPUTool and our benchmarking suite.
The overclocks listed here were achieved with the default fan and voltage settings as defined in the VGA BIOS. Please note that every single sample overclocks differently, that's why our results here can only serve as a guideline for what you can expect from your card.



The overclocks of our card are 774 MHz core (31% overclock) and 943 MHz Memory (77% overclock). Wow! Simply amazing overclocking potential, very nice. Whether overclocking makes any sense on a graphics card like this is up to you to decide depending on your requirements.

Overclocked Performance

Using these clock frequencies we ran a quick test of Call of Duty 4 to evaluate the gains from overclocking.


The actual 3D performance gained from overclocking is 55%.

Temperatures

Temperatures look excellent. Even with overclocking the temperature is comfortably cool.
I also did a quick test with the fan disconnected - just pulled the fan power cable and left the rest of the card as it is. This resulted in a noiseless passively cooled GeForce 210. I was amazed to see that for media PC use this card will work perfectly fine without active fan. While the card reaches high temperatures in gaming, video playback won't encounter any heat issues. Also it should be noted that the card will slow down rendering once it reaches 105°C in order to avoid further overheating.