Overclocking and Testing

     While the heatpipe did a good job of keeping everything cool, the card was pretty close to the maximum for clock speeds.  I was able to take the core up to 580MHz from the default 560MHz and the memory clocked to 775MHz up from the default speed of 700MHz.  I'll include the overclocked results with the default speed results.

The test system is as follows.

     The CPU is overclocked to 3.2GHz at 1.325v and the memory is set to 800MHz cas 4-4-4-12.  We used the latest Forceware driver 91.47 for the testing.  In order to get well rounded results, we threw some synthetic benchmarks at it and some real-world game benches.  The synthetic benches include the full suite of 3Dmark tests (2001, 2003, 2005 and 2006) and Aquamark.  Game benches include, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Quake 4, Farcry, F.E.A.R., and Doom3.  For comparison purposes, I will post the results of a 7900GT at default clocks with the scores.

Results

3DMark2001

3DMark2003

3DMark2005

3DMark2006

Aquamark