MSI's cards have earned
themselves a reputation around here for good overclockability, and so we were obviously hoping for
the best from the FX5700 Ultra-TD128 on the test bench.
Starting at
the stock core speed of 475 MHz I began to raise things a few MHz at a
time. Not surprisingly, the 500 MHz mark fell quite easily.
Seems like MSI's TOP Tech cooler works pretty well, for after a short
while we found ourselves well past 550 MHz which is pretty darn good. The FX5700 Ultra-TD128 was just able to
pass the 575 MHz plateau before slamming into the wall at 580 MHz.
Next, I pushed the DDR-II faster in 7 MHz intervals until
the 1 GHz was left in the digital dust. Sadly, 1.003GHz was all we could get out of
the memory, anything higher and the FX5700 Ultra-TD128 would start to artifact. Perhaps with
additional cooling the memory might overclock higher... We took some temperature measurements with
an Omega OS643E-LS Infrared digital thermometer and the reading was 68 degrees
Celsius.
In the end, the FX5700
Ultra-TD128's core and memory played nicely together, running smoothly at 580/1003 for all
tests you are about see.
Benchmarks and 3DMark03
PCStats
has been a supporter of FutureMark since the days of 3DMark99, but for the time
being we have stopped including 3DMark03 in Videocard benchmark suite. It has
become clear that recent events have cast so much doubt in the legitimacy of
3DMark03 results that it no longer serves much reference value to our readers.
We are aware of FutureMark's Approved Drivers list, but they can be somewhat
limiting if newer WHQL drivers are available on the web. If the situation
changes we will re-evaluate our position, and reintroduce the benchmark as
decided. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us by e-mail or speak your mind in the
PCstats forums.
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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
msi fx5950 ultra-td128
msi fx5900u-vtd256
msi
fx5900xt-vtd128
gigabyte gv-nv57u128d
msi fx5700 ultra-td128 |
| memory: |
2x 256mb corsair twinx
3200ll |
| hard
drive: |
40gb wd special
ed |
| cdrom: |
nec 52x cd-rom |
| powersupply: |
vantec stealth 470w |
| software setup |
windowsxp build 2600
intel inf 5.02.1012
catalyst 3.9
detonator
53.03 |
| workstation benchmarks |
3dmark2001se
codecreatures
aquamark
aquamark3
gun metal 2
x2 the
threat
ut2003
aa test, af and
aa+af test
3dmark2001se
x2 the threat
ut2003 | |
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