Nvidia GeForce Legacy GPUs¶

Information is sparse and interest is low, but the odd thing will be noted here.

geforce4¶

Voltage tolerance on a GeForce4 ti 4600¶

Appeared to safety shutoff at 2.1V (FB modded), but showed no sign of damage from the brief time at that voltage. A short shot of 2.5V on ambient appeared to destroyed the core.

geforce3¶

geforce2¶

Geforce2 OC¶

Geforce2 can be overclocked in drivers, with the controls enabled by a simple registry edit;

To gain access to core and memory overclocking utilities, simply run Window's registry editor (regedit) and perform the following steps:
1. Open the key, [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global] by navigating down to it in the left hand pane.
2. Add a new key named "NVTweak".
3. Go under this new key and add a new DWORD value with the name "CoolBits".
4. Double click on CoolBits in the right hand pane and set the value to 3 with a hexadecimal base.
5. Reboot.

Check out the anandtech article for screenshots and more info