Date: July 7th, 2010
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Owner / Head Editor)
Product was submitted by: Sapphire
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VIDEOCARD OVERCLOCKING
Although this cooler could handle this card with ease, there was some instability during benchmarking which had some benchmarks freezing a couple times during different benchmarking programs. Because of this, overclocking testing was called off. If it isn't completely stable stock, I can't guarantee the card you buy will be stable under an overclock.
VIDEOCARD BENCHMARKING
The Testbed is comprised of:
Intel QX9770 Extreme Quad Core 3.2Ghz Processor Check Prices
Gigabyte P35-DS4 Premium Motherboard Check Prices
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2Gig PC-8500 DDR2 Memory Check Prices
Windows Vista Ultimate Premium Check Prices
Maxtor 250gig SATA-150 HD Check Prices
PCI Express Videocards Benchmarked Against:
Sapphire Ultimate HD 5550
HIS Silence HD5570
HIS HD5570
Asus ENGT240
Axle GT 220
Benchmarking Programs Are:
3DMark Vantage
3DMark2006
Far Cry 2 ( 2x AA / 4x AF)
Quake Wars: Enemy Territory ( 2x AA / 4x AF)
Devil May Cry 4 ( 2x AA / 4x AF)
Crysis ( 2x AA / 4x AF)
Crysis WarHead ( 2x AA / 4x AF)
Stalker: Call of Pripyat DX10 Benchmark ( 2x AA / 4x AF)
Stalker: Call of Pripyat DX11 Benchmark ( 2x AA / 4x AF)
DIRT 2 DX11 Benchmark ( 2x AA / 4x AF)
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