EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX EGS

Name: EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX EGS - Page 11
Brand: EVGA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, July 26, 2005, 05:30 PM EDT

Overclocking the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX

(Fast 3D Video Card) + Overclocking = Geek Euphoria

As we neared the end of our testing, we spent a little time overclocking the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX using the clock frequency slider available within NVIDIA's Forceware drivers after enabling the "Coolbits" registry tweak. To find the card's peak core and memory frequencies, we slowly raised their respective sliders until we begun to see visual artifacts on-screen while running a game or benchmark...

EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX (Overclocked) = 491MHz Core / 1.3GHz Memory

We found our particular EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX's peak core and memory clock speeds to be 491MHz and 1.3GHz (650MHz DDR), respectively, for an increase of 41MHz to the core and 70MHz to the memory. While the card was overclocked, we re-ran a couple of benchmarks and have the results posted above. As you can see, the EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX's overall 3DMark05 score jumped up by a few hundred points, and its framerate in Doom 3 went up a few FPS while overclocked.

Tags: GeForce, evga, GTX, VGA, force, GT, 7800, 780

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