Gainward Bliss 8600 GT PCX Golden Sample GLH Edition 256mb
Overclocking
Published: 21st January 2008 | Source: Gainward | Price: £80 |
Overclocking
Overclocking was performed using Nvidia's drivers and the nTune plugin. No hard or soft mods were performed on the cards and overclocking in this way is meant to represent an "easy overclock", giving value for money on each card without making too much effort.
Overclocking was performed using Nvidia's drivers and the nTune plugin. No hard or soft mods were performed on the cards and overclocking in this way is meant to represent an "easy overclock", giving value for money on each card without making too much effort.
Results
The Gainward 8600 GT PCX Golden sample should produce some decent results here:
The Gainward 8600 GT PCX Golden Sample lived up to its name. With a fantastic overclock of 131MHz on the core to 756MHz and 230MHz on the memory to 1130Mhz this should go some way to making up for the poor initial 3DMark performance.
3DMark06 overclocked
I ran a test run of 3DMark06 to see how this overclock would affect the cards performance.
A nice large improvement of around 1000 3Dmarks gives the card a little more value for money.
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last page, "eprformance"
needs editing
otherwise, good review
needs editing
otherwise, good review
Ta, must have missed that
Nice review Matt..
I could be wrong here but when you say the increase of the overall 3DMark 06 results when overclocked is 200... Is it not 1000 ish??
I may well be wrong as I just scanned that part.. Will read in detail a little later.
I could be wrong here but when you say the increase of the overall 3DMark 06 results when overclocked is 200... Is it not 1000 ish??
I may well be wrong as I just scanned that part.. Will read in detail a little later.
6293 to 7272? Looks around 1000 points to me, did I not put 1000? Mebbe not...it was late and i was thinking 1000 ish 
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Originally Posted by name='Kempez'
6293 to 7272? Looks around 1000 points to me, did I not put 1000? Mebbe not
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Nice insight.
Certainly gets game spankage off the Ati alt card. Although the 3dmark scores are pretty much how I`d expect them to be.
Now they show this card sporting 3 possible outputs - can it manage that ?
1 BIG dissapointment for me, especially with it having HDMI as a standard connection, is no audio passthrough. MSI seem to have taken the corner of the market with this.
Hard to think the 8600 is about to become a `last generation` card.
Certainly gets game spankage off the Ati alt card. Although the 3dmark scores are pretty much how I`d expect them to be.
Now they show this card sporting 3 possible outputs - can it manage that ?
1 BIG dissapointment for me, especially with it having HDMI as a standard connection, is no audio passthrough. MSI seem to have taken the corner of the market with this.
Hard to think the 8600 is about to become a `last generation` card.
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