Gigabyte GV-NX73T256P-RH (GeForce 7300 GT 256MB DDR2)

Overclocking

Overclocking

Frankly, we were hoping for better overclocks than the ones we eventually got with the Gigabyte. Maybe we were influenced by the outstanding performance of the Gainward but alas, the Gigabyte was not even close to the Gainward in terms of overclocking. We only managed a very minor increase in clocks that led to a small gain of 6% in 3DMark06. That was still very far behind the Gainward's default speeds. To be fair, the Gigabyte did have a smaller passive heatsink and had slower memory chips so the outcome wasn't too unexpected.