Overclocking the Albatron FX·5700P Turbo was a very simple process, thanks in large to the provided registry key merge which unlocks the clock speed settings tab, in the video driver control panel. The latest builds of the Detonator Drivers let the user customize both the Standard 2D and Performance 3D clock speeds. To directly impact gaming frame rates, the Performance 3D setting will be the focus of this overclocking project. In an effort to keep Overclocking as simple as possible, slider type value bars are manipulated to select the clock speed you which to change to. To further simply things, an Auto Detect button is available which is supposed to run a series of tests at different clock speeds and choose the best one. When I used the Auto Detect feature on this video card, it actually LOWERED the clock speeds of both the GPU and MEMORY below stock/factory settings.

     Before the control panel appellate will let you APPLY any clock speeds, you must use the Test Net Settings button. This performs a quick test to ensure the settings you have selected will not cause the card to crash. If the settings you selected are too high, the message "The test failed to run at the selected settings. Please lower yours settings and try again." Appears and the APPLY button is unavailable until you select clock speeds that pass the self test. In the case of the Albatron FX·5700P Turbo, those settings were a very modest 480/665.

     With the new clock speeds set it's time to run the benchmarks again. Other than the video cards own clock speeds, no other system or software settings were changed.

    3D Mark 2003

3D Mark 2001 SE

Gunmetal