GPU clock speed will not go up

[Sherwin Lee]

Hey guys!So I rebuilt my 9 year old LGA775 PC 3 days ago,and the specs are a Pentium 4 524 HT(Cooled by a Xigmatek Apache III),4GB of RAM and a Asus Geforce 210.I tried to give a little kick to my system,and so I threw a slight overclock on the CPU,from 3.06 GHz to 3.15 GHz.The CPU went well,maxing out at 65 degrees,and I plan to overclock the graphics card too.I opened Afterburner and threw in some overclocks,stock speeds is 589MHz (Core clock) and 400 MHz memory clock.I managed to get it maxed out at 730MHz on the core and 500 on the memory,so when I stress tested it,it caps itself at 405Mhz core and 324MHz memory.What's going on???I need answers asap,and BTW im using the latest Nvidia drivers

[JebKerman]

If I recall, nVidia severely hampered overclocking on some of the older cards. This might be once such case.

 

The GPU may be thermal throttling, do you remember the temps during the tests?, otherwise, it may have just deteriorated, was it covered in dust?

[Sherwin Lee]

Jeb the temps is around 44 degrees at the capping stage.

[Sherwin Lee]

And I cleaned it a few times,so......

[JebKerman]

My only guess is that the card doesn't overclock well, becase of either nVidia, or simply time without use.