I slowly overclocked the card little by little so that it would be able to burn in and adjust. After slowly increasing the speed of the card I reached the highest stable speed which was 425MHz core and 835MHz memory. I am pretty impressed with the overclock that this card is capable of and being the Ultra version it is already coming faster than a regular 5600.
As you know this video card requires a Molex to be plugged into it for extra power. While I was testing the card I forgot to plug on in and upon booting into Windows 2000 Professional I was greeted with the following dialog box. I’m glad that nVidia included this feature into the driver because if there was no warning I would not have noticed the problem until I went back into my case or the video card was damaged. I was a little worried when I saw this message that something may have been damaged but after turning off my computer, plugging in a Molex, and rebooting, everything was fine.
Conclusion:
I like this card a lot; it has a lot of features and performs really well. It was a little behind in some of the DirectX 8 testing however it excelled in the DirectX 9 testing. There was a good amount of thermal compound used on the core which I always like. It would have been nice to get a game bundle with this card, especially since these video cards are supposed to be games. I am actually very impressed with this video card and am going to give it a 9/10 and award it the OCmodshop Seal of Approval. I would like to thank XFX for sending me this card.
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