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Overclocked Cafe has posted an article "Overclocking the Geforce 2 GTS using Arctic Silver Paste".



Some of you may recall that a couple of months ago I was planning a review of Arctic Silver Paste, using my Geforce 256 DDR (64 megs) card as the guinea pig. As you probably know, the card was destroyed in the process of my (re)modding it. It has taken me awhile, but I finally had the time to run the tests I had planned for my old card on it´s successor. I replaced the dead card with a Creative Labs 3DBlaster Annihilator 2, powered by the Geforce 2 GTS chip and 32 megs of DDR RAM. Since that time I´ve added a Geforce 2 Ultra to my stable, but I felt that the CL card was a perfect test bed for some extreme overclocking. First, it has headroom. The Ultra doesn´t have nearly as much. Second, it shipped with no RAM heat sinks, so adding them would be a perfect way to test.
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