The
built in thermal management system of the NV36 GPU make it a bit
more difficult to find the maximum speed of the videocard. I can
understand why nVIDIA has added it in, and while it doesn't make the enthusiasts
life any easier, it is bound to save a few newbies from damaging their videocards
accidentally.
Beginning at a core speed of 475 MHz,
we slowly raised the GPU to the 520MHz mark, and were even able to even surpass 600
MHz ! It's nice to see that nVIDIA has its 0.13 micron manufacturing down! The maximum speed the core would reach was
619MHz while simply stock cooled.
The DDR-II memory was
not about to be out done, but since it was already clocked at the maximum theoretical limit of 900
MHz, it was difficult to guess how much further it could be pushed. To our surprise
the memory breezed past 1 GHz, and ultimately maxed out at a top speed of 1.02 GHz. Anything
higher and the card would start to artifact.
The core and
memory worked nicely together, and so we didn't have to change the 619MHz/1.02GHz overclock speeds to get
the Albatron FX5700U to run through the upcoming benchmarks stably!
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PCStats Test System Specs: |
processor: |
intel pentium 4 3.0c |
clock
speed: |
15 x 200 mhz = 3.0 ghz |
motherboards: |
gigabyte 8knxp, i875p |
videocard: |
ati radeon 9800xt ati radeon 9800
pro ati radeon 9700 pro asus radeon 9600xt gigabyte radeon
9600 pro msi fx5900u-vtd256 albatron geforcefx 5600 ultra
(rev2) msi g4ti4600-vt2d8x albatron geforcefx 5700
ultra |
memory: |
2x 256mb corsair twinx 3200ll |
hard drive:
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40gb wd special ed |
cdrom: |
nec 52x cd-rom |
powersupply: |
vantec stealth 470w |
software setup |
windowsxp build 2600 intel inf 5.03 catalyst
3.9 detonator 52.16 |
workstation
benchmarks |
3dmark2001se 3dmark03 aquamark aquamark3 codecreatures gun
metal 2 quake iii arena ver 1.17 ut2003
aa test, af and aa+af test 3dmark2001se
quake iii
arena | |