Gigabyte Radeon X800 XL 256MB PCI-E GV-RX80L256V - Page 5

Written by John Chen    Saturday, 30 July 2005 11:00
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Test Setup and Overclocking

Overclocking:

The use of a passive heatpipe heatsink is already an indication that the overclocking headroom won't be enormous.  Unless you have additional case fans that blow directly at the passive heatsink, heat will be the number one issue when overclocking this card.  With the use of ATITool, I was able to push the core to 420MHZ before the card started to lock up.  The memory went all the way to 525MHZ before showing any artifacts.  The results aren't too bad, but there is definitely more possible headroom.  My regular ATI X800 XL can clock well over 450MHZ for the core, so this just means that the GPU on the Gigabyte X800 XL just needs more cooling.

Testing Setup and Methods:

  • AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice (9 x 275HTT = 2.475GHZ)
  • DFI LANParty UT nF4 Ultra-D
  • 2 x 512MB Centon Advanced PC3200 (275MHZ 2.5-3-3-7 1T)
  • Cooler Master Real Power 550W
  • Arctic Cooling Freezer64
  • Windows XP Professional with SP2 and DirectX 9.0c
  • Nvidia nForce4 standalone kit 6.53
  • Nvidia ForceWare 71.84
  • ATI Catalyst 5.5

Benchmarks:

  • 3DMark2003
  • 3DMark2005
  • Aquamark3
  • Code Creatures
  • Painkiller
  • Doom 3
  • Far Cry
  • Unreal Tournament 2004

Video Cards Tested:

  • Nvidia Geforce 6800 Ultra:  400/1100
  • Nvidia Geforce 6800GT:  350/1000
  • MSI Geforce 6600GT:  500/1000
  • PowerColor Radeon X700 Bravo:  400/533
  • Gigabyte Radeon X800 XL:  400/980
 

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