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Overclocking the improved G92

Overclocking the 8800GTS was rather simple, a matter of dragging bars on Asus' overclocking utility. The latest installment of RivaTuner/ATi Tools/Power Strip has yet to work at the time of writing, as much as we'd love the leaner layout of the three. I'm sure their developers will have the new tricks for their tools soon so overclockers, do be patient.

 
On to the overclocking, we pretty much maxed out the options on Asus' overclocking utility raising the GPU to 750MHz, Shader Clocks to 2000MHz and the memory to 2140MHz! All these on just the stock cooler!

With this, we move on to FutureMARK benchmarks, 3DMark05 and 3DMark06 to see what kind of differences were made with the boost.

The overclock yielded 568 additional points in 3DMark05.

More than 1300 points improvement in 3DMark06 & we haven't even maxed out the potential of the card!

The 8800GT showed what the G92 chipset is capable of, and the 8800GTS is NVIDIA's take at realising the chipset's full performance. Integration wise, NVIDIA has done a fine job with construction, putting in extra effort to cope with the additional power draw and heat. So much so that we saw the limitations of the overclocking utility rather than that of cooling. Asus as a NSP has done well too, with a reasonably well packaged card; the dust caps were a nice touch for those who aren't running SLI or multi-display setups. The Asus locking utility was a savior for a pre-release review like this one, and definitely a good effort on their part. The 8800GTS ran stably for a card in its range, with no obvious hiccups during our extensive (and almost non-stop) benchmarking whilst proving that NVIDIA isn't resting on their laurels with the 8800GT. The G92 8800GTS certainly is a card worth looking at if you're intending to upgrade soon.