Because we've had a bit of luck overclocking FX 5600 based videocards in the past we were expecting decent numbers from the MSI FX5600-VTDR128 as well.

Slowly we began to raise the GPU speed starting from 325MHz. 330MHz, 340MHz, and 350MHz came and went quite easily. At around 370 MHz we began to notice the card would start showing artifacts during 3DMark2001 so we lowered the core speed a little. In the end we settled for a nice 366 MHz core speed.

The memory was a decent overclocker as well. Staring at 550 MHz we began to raise the memory speed... The 600 MHz mark came and went quite easily as did 625 MHz. Once past the 630 MHz mark though we began to see a few problems. We were able to squeeze a maximum of 631 MHz out of the memory before it would start seeing artifacts.

366/631 is a pretty decent overclock for a budget videocard, and as you'll see they do boost the benchmark numbers nicely.

pcstats test system specs:
computer hardware:
processor:	pentium 4 2.8 ghz
clock speed:	21 x 133 mhz = 2.8 ghz
motherboards:	msi gnb max-fisr*
chipsets:	e7205
videocard:	ati radeon 9800 pro (380/680) ati radeon 9700 pro (325/620) albatron geforcefx 5900pv (400/850) msi g4ti4600-td (300/650) gigabyte radeon 9600 pro (400/600) albatron geforcefx 5600p turbo (325/600) msi fx5600-vtdr128 (325/550) msi fx5600-vtdr128 (366/631)
memory:	2x 256mb corsair xms3500 cas2
hard drive:	40gb wd special ed.
cdrom:	nec 52x cd-rom
floppy:	panasonic 1.44mb floppy drive
heatsink:	avc sunflower
powersupply:	vantec 470w stealth psu
software setup	windowsxp build 2600 intel inf 5.10.1012 catalyst 3.5 detonator 44.03
workstation benchmarks	3dmark2001se 3dmark03 aquamark codecreatures commanche 4 gun metal 2 quake iii arena ver 1.17 ut2003 aa test, af and aa+af test 3dmark2001se quake iii arena