MSI RX800: Radeon X800 XT (PCI Express)

Name: MSI RX800: Radeon X800 XT (PCI Express) - Page 13
Brand: MSI

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT

Overclocking The MSI RX800 Radeon X800 XT

Making Fast Faster...

Looking through the benchmark scores throughout this review, it's clear that the MSI RX800 is an extremely fast video card. But you know as well as we do, there is always some performance to be gained by overclocking a video card's core and memory. A higher fillrate and more memory bandwidth will usually yield higher performance in any game that's GPU bound. We installed the latest version of PowerStrip to overclock the MSI RX800, and here's what we found out...

We slowly raised the RX800's core and memory clock speeds using PowerStrip until we begun to see on-screen visual artifacts. Ultimately, we were able to take the RX800's core and memory up from their stock clock speeds of 500MHz, to 536MHz and 578MHz (1.16GHz) respectively. Clock speeds that put the MSI RX800 past a Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition. With the card overclocked we re-ran the Aquamark 3 and Doom 3 benchmarks and gained 3.4 FPS in Aquamark (9.5%) and 5.4 FPS in D3 (15.3%).

Tags: MSI, Radeon, PC, Pre, MS, PCI Express, XP, pci, express, XT, 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