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Power Color Radeon X1950 XT Review
[Abstract]
IntroductionIn case you have not noticed, ATI's website has undergone some superficial changes in appearance to match its new owners - AMD. The red team has gone green, though its logos and bra...
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Overclocking
The maximum clock speed available using ATI's Overdrive utility in the Catalyst control panel was 690MHz for the core and 1900MHz DDR for the memory. We did try using the latest beta of ATI Tools but it did not seem to work accurately, hence we were limited to the Overdrive utility for overclocking. For those thinking of getting a cheap Radeon X1950 XTX by overclocking the Radeon X1950 XT, be warned that the core did not seem easily overclockable.
While we did reach a maximum of 655MHz, which is 5MHz more than the default of the Radeon X1950 XTX, the memory was restricted by the Overdrive utility. We managed to reach the maximum possible memory clock using Overdrive (the tool automatically adjusted our 1900MHz setting to 1890MHz) and as you can see from the 3DMark06 scores, we eventually saw an improvement of around 3%. Perhaps you will have better luck with the memory, especially with another overclocking tool but looking at our temperature readings, it did not seem like the wisest option.
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