The chip and memory clock speed are linked with the G450, just as with ATI's Radeon family. Of course you may overclock using utilities like Powerstrip, but both parameters will always be altered simultaneously. Matrox uses 6 ns SDRAM chips that are almost not overclockable. A little utility called MGA Tweak 1.20b makes overclocking easier, as you may also change the clock relationships:
I'm sorry to say it but even with this utility, which is supposed to be more powerful, we were not successful with overclocking. You can increase the basic clock speed by some MHz, however, the system quickly crashed at 175+ MHz. That speed will give you a little extra performance, but compared to the strong competition, the additional performance is still a drop in the ocean. Therefore, forget about overclocking - it's hardly worth the effort in this case.
Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.
