First let's state the obvious, the Albatron 6800 GT is one fast videocard, even at stock speeds. I'm positive it has enough power to keep even the most enthusiastic gamer happy; overclocking is simply for the benchmark freaks like myself, or for an added edge in games. Starting with the core at 350 MHz (by default), I immediately raised it to GeForce 6800 Ultra levels - 400 MHz. As expected, the Albatron 6800GT ran with absolutely no problems. We passed 410 MHz, 420 MHz and even 430 MHz before hitting the overclocking wall at 436 MHz. The card didn't exactly artifact above that speed, but rather pause momentarily during benchmarks. Obviously no good, back to 436MHz we went.

With the NV40 core up to the challenge of overclocking, I had some high hopes for the memory. 2ns DDR III certainly sounds fast, and so we began to raise the clock speed in small increments from 1GHz on up. We easily passed the 1.05 GHz mark, but quickly petered out at 1.06 GHz. Still, I guess that's nothing to scoff at.

I tried to run both the core and memory of the Albatron 6800GT at their maximum overclocked speeds, but we were met with a weird pausing problems in the benchmarks. Lowering the core speed to 433 MHz fixed that, and we were able to keep the memory at 1.06 GHz for the benchmarks to follow.

PCStats Test System Specs:

system 1 system 2 processor: intel pentium 4 540 intel pentium 4 3.0c clock speed: 16 x 200 mhz = 3.2 ghz 15 x 200 mhz = 3.0 ghz motherboards: gigabyte 8anxp-d, i925x gigabyte 8knxp, i875p videocard: gigabyte gv-rx60x128v gigabyte gv-nx57128d msi pcx5750-td128 albatron trinity pc5900 ati radeon 9800xt ati radeon 9800 pro ati radeon 9700 pro asus radeon 9600xt msi fx5950 ultra-td128 msi fx5900u-vtd256 msi fx5900xt-vtd128 aopen geforcefx 5900xt albatron geforce 6800gt memory: 2x 256mb crucial pc4300 ddr2 2x 256mb corsair twinx 3200ll hard drive: 40gb wd special ed 40gb wd special ed cdrom: msi x48 cd-rw/dvd-rom nec 52x cd-rom powersupply: vantec stealth 470w vantec stealth 470w software setup windowsxp build 2600 intel inf 5.02.1012 forceware 61.77 windowsxp build 2600 intel inf 5.02.1012 catalyst 4.6 detonator 61.77 benchmarks 3dmark2001se codecreatures aquamark aquamark3 x2 the threat ut2003 doom 3 aa test, af and aa+af test 3dmark2001se x2 the threat ut2003

the agp and pci-e systems are different, but the results are being included for reference.we usually run gun metal 2 benchmarks to show dx9 power, but for some reason whenever we ran the benchmark it would crash back to desktop. we only experienced this issue on that benchmark, so perhaps there's a compatibility problem somewhere.