MSI N9600GT-OC T2D512 review

Page 10 - 3DMark06 и Overclock

Synthetic test are done last. The truth that more and more people begin to understand is that those tests are highly overrated. Years ago when versions 99 and 2001 of the famous 3DMark test began gathering popularity as a frequent gamers test, and a high result became a mark of a good video card, the companies began to optimize their drivers and chips to be capable to prove themselves in any of the latest 3DMark “disciplines”.

Many people spend hundreds or even thousand of dollars just to obtain computer capable of “playing 3DMark”. And they still exist! But even if you're not one of them, you still might want to know how will your video card perform in 3DMark, is it in the best results of it's rang compared to card ana computer. Now after showing how the cards are holding on in the the most recent and heavy games, we cannot miss the opportunity to give you the delight of the synthetic test:

There is not much that can be said about the results, they are just points that don't really give you anything solid. It is likely though things will change with the upcoming 3DMark Vantage, which has full DirectX 10 support and on which engine a game is to be based. It's just that 3DMark06 too old...

At last the long awaited overclock tests!

In our 9600 GT we witnessed how a referent Point of View 9600 GT 512MB reached 740MHz for the core and 1025MHz (2050MHz DDR) for the memory. This time we had much better cooler and we were eager to find out how far will the card go. In the end the maximum point of stability (continuous gameplay with Antialiasing on) was 766/1900MHz core/shaders an a whopping 1080MHz (effective 2160MHz) for the memory! And on top of this under maximal load the card newer went over 53 degrees centigrade and even went very rapidly under 40 after the en of the test. The fan didn't increase its RPM at any part of the testing. Let's compare the overclock results to the others:

And now let's wrap it up, and draw a conclusion in few lines.