Asus EAX1800XT Top

Name: Asus EAX1800XT Top - Page 8
Brand: Asus

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, February 07, 2006, 12:00 PM EDT

Overclocking The Asus EAX1800XT Top

(Fast 3D Video Card) + Overclocking = Even Faster Card

Before wrapping things up, we spent a little time overclocking the Asus EAX1800XT Top using the clock frequency slider available within ATI's Catalyst drivers, under the "Overdrive" tab. Because this card is essentially "pre-overclocked" though, we weren't expecting to gain much more in terms of clock speed.

Asus EAX1800XT Top "Stock" = 695MHz Core / 792MHz Memory
Asus EAX1800XT Top "Overclocked" = 700MHz Core / 797MHz Memory

In the end, we were able to max out the clock speed sliders available within the Catalyst drivers to 700MHz for the core and 797MHz for the memory. These are relatively small clock speed increases of 5MHz each, but we re-ran a couple of benchmarks anyway to see what kind of performance we had gained. The answer is not much. While overclocked, the EAX1800XT Top's 3DMark06 overall score went up by only 14 points, and its framerate in F.E.A.R. increased by only 1 FPS. Perhaps with a more specialized overclocking tool we could have taken her a bit higher.

Tags: Asus, x1, XT, EA, 180

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