With the rather impressive
cooling solution on the Asus V9950 Ultra we were hoping to get some nice numbers
from the videocard.
As always we
overclock the core and memory independently first to see how high each will go
then we overclock them together. Off to the core!
Starting at 450 MHz we began to raise the
core speed 5 MHz at a time. 485, 490, 495 MHz blew by quickly as did the 500 MHz
core mark. Amazingly the V9950 Ultra had a lot more headroom in it and even
broke the 525 MHz mark! The highest we were able to overclock the core without
it locking up was 535 MHz and that was with stock
cooling!
The memory on the
Asus V9950 Ultra was not to be out done by the awesome core overclock. Starting
at a relatively lowly 850 MHz we upped the memory frequency slowly. 900 MHz and
950 MHz was passed very easily, even 1 GHz was no problem for the Asus V9950
Ultra! We finally settled for an amazing 1.04 GHz. Anything higher and the
memory would start to artifact during 3DMark tests.
Knowing that the
core and memory overclocks on the previous GeForceFX 5900 class cards we tested
did not play well with each other we knew that we would not be able to run
535/1040 on the Asus.
We were correct,
but the max speed the card reached with no problems was 531 MHz core and 1.02
GHz memory which is certainly not bad either! As you'll see this really does
boost the benchmarks quite nicely!
pcstats test system specs: |
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computer
hardware: |
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processor: |
pentium 4 2.8 ghz |
clock speed: |
21 x 133 mhz = 2.8 ghz |
motherboards: |
msi gnb max-fisr |
chipsets: |
e7205 |
videocard: |
ati radeon 9800 pro (380/680) ati radeon 9700 pro (325/620) msi nbox fx5900u-vtd256 ultra (450/850) albatron geforcefx 5900pv (400/850) msi g4ti4600-td (300/650) asus v9950 ultra (450/850)
asus v9950 ultra (531/1020) |
memory: |
2x 256mb corsair xms3500 cas2 |
hard drive:
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40gb wd special
ed. |
cdrom: |
nec 52x cd-rom |
floppy: |
panasonic 1.44mb floppy drive
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heatsink: |
avc sunflower |
powersupply: |
vantec 470w stealth psu |
software setup |
windowsxp build 2600 intel
inf 5.10.1012 catalyst 3.5 detonator 44.03 |
workstation benchmarks |
3dmark2001se 3dmark03 aquamark codecreatures commanche 4 gun metal 2 quake iii arena ver 1.17 ut2003
aa test, af and aa+af
test 3dmark2001se quake iii arena |