The Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro is clocked by default at 400 MHz core and 300 MHz memory. Without adding any additional cooling we started to overclock the videocard.

Built on 0.13 micron technology we began to raise the core speed 10 MHz at a time; 440, 450, 460 MHz and the back of the core was not even hot to the touch!

At around 495 MHz we began to see some visual artifacts, lowering the core speed to 490 MHz solved that though. With the same 2.8ns DRAM found on the 9700/9800 Pro class cards on the Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro we had even higher hopes in terms of memory overclocking.

With a default speed of 300 MHz we were good overclockers and raised the memory frequency slowly.

Unfortunately the memory overclocking didn't turn out very well. Anything higher then 341 MHz and artifacts would start appearing when running 3DMark or the CodeCreatures benchmarks.

Still 490/341 MHz out of a budget videocard like the Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro is very good. And, as you'll see it does wonders for the benchmarks!

* - 8x agp was enabled and functioning properly during all testing.