" Overclocking the memory allows the user to try and surpass the memory bandwidth bottleneck that most high-end video cards face. Cards like the Nvidia Geforce2 Ultra have a huge amount of processing power. But unfortunately they face the limits of the memory on board of the video card. Pushing the memory past its designated clock speed allow the memory bandwidth to get closer to the GPU's processing potential. "
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