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ASUS EN8600GT OC Gear 256MB DDR3

By Vincent Chang - 3 Aug 2007

Overclocking

Overclocking

The point of the OC Gear module is to make overclocking as simple as twisting a knob - but that's limited only to the GPU core unfortunately. But that aside, how far can this ASUS card really go? Despite the 700MHz upper limit that we found on the ASUS SmartDoc application, we couldn't get the card to complete 3DMark06 at any core clock above 680MHz. The memory chips were also limited to 1560MHz DDR, falling short of what the Foxconn and XFX achieved. Overall, the ASUS OC Gear was quite decent for overclocking, finishing behind the outstanding XFX Fatal1ty and ahead of the Foxconn in the benchmark. It was also an improvement of up to 17% compared to the original clocks of the ASUS EN8600 GT OC Gear.

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