stock clocks are 600, so quite a nice increase :)

Too bad it just doesn't matter at all. Memory frequency is really important on these kinds of cards :-/

will extra cooling pay off?

It does a bit. With the Zalman cooler I can go upto 780/960 stable. With LN2 (cold across the PCB) maybe a tad higher?

worth the effort you think? what platform do you have to combine it with?
Core i7 is used at HWBot in the GT 220 category

Currently using my Core i5 setup to test. I guess 4.2G will be enough to max the GPU. With these kinds of low-end cards all tests are GPU-bound anyhow.

It's always worth the trouble. If it doesn't scale, we at least know it doesn't scale ;).

coolio:)
I've featured your OC results without mods in the review here: http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=963
if you provide a few pics of the test setup and OC results, I'll stump together the "Extreme GT 220 OC" piece:)

Oki, working on it :)

The advantage of the Zalman cooler is that it also cools the memory actively. So, I can increase voltage and run 970MHz through 3Dmark03 :)

:woot: