Asus AX800 XT (Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition)

Name: Asus AX800 XT (Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition) - Page 13
Brand: Asus

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 01:00 PM EDT

Overclocking the Asus Radeon X800 Pro

Making Fast, Faster...

Up to this point, it's obvious that the Asus AX800 XT is fast, but we all know there is always more untapped performance that can be unlocked by overclocking. We installed the latest version of Rage3D tweak and slowly raised the core and memory clock speeds on the Asus AX800 XT until we begun to see visual artifacts on-screen and our test system became unstable...

Our overclocking results weren't very inspiring. In the end, we were only able to take the Asus AX800 XT up from its default core and memory clock speeds of 520MHz / 560MHz (1.12GHz DDR) up to 531MHz / 574MHz (1.15GHz). We then re-ran a couple of the more taxing high-resolution benchmarks in our suite with the card overclocked to see what kind of performance gains were realized by overclocking it. Performance in Aquamark 3 increased by only 2.8% and performance in Doom 3 increased by a paltry 3.1%.

Tags: Asus, ATI, Radeon, edition, XT, platinum, PLA, X8

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com