nVidia Geforce GT430 Review

Overclocking today was performed with MSI's Afterburner tool.

Our overclocking session went well, with the core hitting 836mhz before we noticed slight artifacting (tiny dots). We wanted to see how this would affect the temperatures.

After we applied our manual overclock, temperatures rose by around 4-6c, not bad at all for such a single slot cooler.

We wanted to run a few benchmarks at our maximum overclocked state to see how performance would be improved.

Almost 2 extra frames per second with Unigine at 720p settings.

An additional 7 frames per second with our considerable overclocks, very noticeable improvements.

Given the overhead available in the GPU core and the underwhelming performance of the GT430 in general, we're shocked that nVidia has not been much more aggressive with the reference clocks for this product.

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