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Asus EN8600GT overclocks great

by on21 May 2007

Index

 
Testbed:

Image

Motherboard:
Nforce 680i EVGA board (provided by EVGA)
 
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo 6800 Extreme edition (provided by Intel)

CPU-Cooler:
Akasa EVO AK 922 Blue Athlon 64/X2/FX cooler and Intel CPU's (provided by Akasa)

Memory:
OCZ Reaper PC2-8500 1066MHz 5-5-5-15  (provided by OCZ)
CL5-5-5-15-CR2T at 2.3V

Graphics Card:
Ausu EN8600GT (provided by Asus)

Power supply:
OCZ GameXStream 700W (provided by OCZ)

Hard disk:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA (provided by Seagate)

 
{mospagebreak title = 3. Overclocking and 3D marks}

 
Testing and Overclocking

Asus clocked the card at a reference 540MHz/1400MHz. As we didn't have any truly comparable results from similar cards, we tried overclocking this one, and compared the OC results with the reference ones.

We'll soon refresh our score sheets with 8600GT and 8500GT card results. We already mentioned that the GT cards utilize the same GPU as the GTS versions, and share the same characteristics. The chips on the Asus 8600GT seem to be from a good batch of wafers, so we were able to push the GPU speed above the GTS versions 675MHz. The card is stable at 690MHz, although we hit as much as 710MHz, but the stability was an issue.

The 1.4ns memory used comes from Samsung, and we were able to push it to 880MHz. We got the best results when we set the GPU/memory at 690/1760MHz. You can find some lower speeds in our charts, we chose to leave them there for your viewing pleasure. You can check out the best overclocking results and gains in 3Dmark06 and Lost Planet.

 

3Dmarks 

 

Composite Figures 3Dmark 03

3DMark 03

Game2

Game3

Game4

Asus EN8600GT 540/1400MHz

15247

105.5

88.7

107.0

Asus EN8600GT 600/1500MHz

16508

114.7

96.2

115.9

Asus EN8600GT 675/1760MHz

18644

132.8

109.7

130.1

 

 

 

 

 

Composite Figures 3Dmark 03

Single Texturinng

Multi Textur.

Vertex Shader

Pixel Shader 2.0

Asus EN8600GT 540/1400MHz

2023.7

7028.5

55.1

168.2

Asus EN8600GT 600/1500MHz

2203.7

7674.8

59.2

182.5

Asus EN8600GT 675/1760MHz

2555.3

8684.9

65.6

213.3

 

 

Composite Figures 3Dmark 05

3DMark 05

Game1

Game2

Game3

Asus EN8600GT 540/1400MHz

8924

38.5

28.7

41.2

Asus EN8600GT 600/1500MHz

9603

40.9

31.0

44.8

Asus EN8600GT 675/1760MHz

10936

46.4

35.1

51.4

 

 

 

 

 

Composite Figures 3Dmark 05

Single Texturinng

Multi Textur.

Pixel Shader

VS/VS
complex

Asus EN8600GT 540/1400MHz

2166.7

7399.2

140.1

63.0/95.1

Asus EN8600GT 600/1500MHz

2369.7

8102.9

152.8

68.3/105.1

Asus EN8600GT 675/1760MHz

2710.5

9095.0

174.0

80.3/119.8




Composite Figures 3Dmark 06

3DMark 06

 

 

 

Asus EN8600GT 540/1400MHz

4513

 

 

 

Asus EN8600GT 600/1500MHz

4882

 

 

 

Asus EN8600GT 675/1760MHz

5515

 

 

 

Asus EN8600GT 690/1760MHz

5611

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SM2.0 Test

Score

GT1

GT2

 

Asus EN8600GT 540/1400MHz

1830

14.549

15.958

 

Asus EN8600GT 600/1500MHz

2003

15.876

17.514

 

Asus EN8600GT 675/1760MHz

2294

18.146

20.094

 

Asus EN8600GT 690/1760MHz

2340

18.542

22.652

 

 

 

 

 

 

HDR/SM3.0 Test

Score

HDR1

HDR2

 

Asus EN8600GT 540/1400MHz

1590

14.094

17.709

 


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