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At KitGuru we don’t really condone overclocking when you have a product with a passive cooling solution, its generally a recipe for crashes. That said, with the strong thermal results we recorded earlier we felt this time it was viable to see if there was any headroom available via overclocking.
We managed to get 100mhz out of the core and 150mhz out of the GDDR3 when we overclocked which is a very good result for a passive solution. Obviously we need to check temperatures under these situations as it can be risky if they are close to the limit.
When overclocked, the card temperature rises by 13c which is a considerable increase – however in a larger chassis such as the Silverstone Raven 02 we didn't see such a high variable as the 3 x180mm fans significantly improve the passive cooling performance.
In reality, around 80c long term would be fine, however we can see that HIS have erred on the side of caution with the clock speeds and this is probably the safest, most practical long term approach to take.
thats actually very nice, I like the DDR3 option, i was amazed sapphire were still selling cards with DDR2, even if its lower end. id go for this rather than sapphire tbh.
another good review Zardon, take a break for god sake ! we will be carrying you out in a body bag !
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Thanks for the review, nice read.
Excellent little board, and DDR3 which is rare on these lower end cards. like it.
very good review chaps. liked the power consumption, I must get one of these for my bedroom for media. IQ looks stellar
12w idle and under 30w gaming. lol that is fucking legendary.
Bollocks to this, review pissed me off 🙁 I bought the DDR2 model last week 🙁
Honestly man, can you please let me know now if you have a GDDR5 version being reviewed next week? I don’t want to make the same mistake as poor Francois 🙁