Geforce Ultra @ 370/580!!!!!

[JayPatel]

Holy Crap....What an overclock

 

[Losty]

can you tell me what the numbers are? XXX/XXX and how they got the mhz?
for my asus tweeak i get to choose the mhz and the memory but it's not that high.

 

[Smbu]

Read the article. It says:



<< Today we will show you GeForce2 Ultra based video cards under unusual conditions. One day we took our test system block outside in order to carry out speed testing of the NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra based video card when the ambient temp was around -2 C. But let's start with our testbed. >>

 

[AdamK47]

I'm guessing they had the monitor inside the house during the outside testing, but I'm sure there was more snow on the monitor.

 

[Biggs]

That must be one helluva long Dsub 15 connector!

 

[DarkMajiq]

That's totally ridiculous! Putting a GOrb on and then operating outside in -2C, no one's ever going to do that.

And am I the only one who finds the absence of the Hercules card a little odd?

I would also have liked in the article to see the scores with the cores operating at normal frequency, because I think that almost all of that performance boost is coming from overclocking the RAM, not the core, which normally yields pretty minimal gains.

 

[Smbu]

<< That's totally ridiculous! Putting a GOrb on and then operating outside in -2C, no one's ever going to do that. >>



At the end you can see he says:



<< At last I should note that this review was not aimed at advertising of any possible overclocking ways, including extreme one. In this article I just wanted to reveal the potential of the GeForce2 Ultra-card for the sport of it. And as far as overclocking is concerned I state that neither me nor iXBT account for any consequences of hasty steps of users. These are irregular modes, and once setting about it a user should realize all possible consequences. >>






<< I would also have liked in the article to see the scores with the cores operating at normal frequency, because I think that almost all of that performance boost is coming from overclocking the RAM, not the core, which normally yields pretty minimal gains. >>



and also in the conclusion is:



<< Interestingly that increase of memory frequencies up to 290 (580) Mhz yield fantastic scores in performance increase. I don't think that lifting of the GPU speed up to 370 MHz has very significant effect, taking into account strong dependence of such chipsets on the memory bandwidth. By the way, our tests prove it indirectly. >>

 

[Mathias]

I think its intresting, but I would not take it seriously at all. No one is gonna be putting there computer in a room that is -2 degrees C (What is that in farenheight? 28?).

 

[snow patrol]

Hardcore...