ATI Radeon X1950 XTX tuning

VR-Zone staff experimented by overclocking ATI’s top card, let’s see what they got.

The core of the Radeon X1950 XTX video card was cooled to -40 degrees Celsius thanks to the compressor solution, giving them the opportunity for a record attempt. Although due to the immature software, the reserves in VGA could not be fully utilized, we can still talk about significant progress. This change, in numbers, means that the operating frequency of the graphics core codenamed R580 + has been increased from the 650 MHz reference value to 927, while the default 2 GHz Samsung GDDR4 memories managed to increase the factory clock by 268 MHz.

Not much was revealed about the details of the test configuration: the processor was an Intel Core 4,5 Duo X2 pulled up to 6800 GHz, the motherboard functions were provided by a product called ASUS P5WDH, while a tuning program called ATITool was used to increase VGA operating frequencies. You can read the full English test by clicking on the source link.