notoriousformula
01-07-2005, 04:29 PM
From Inquirer UK: WE MET ATI here in Vegas but we were surprised to see ATI's chipset used in heavily overclocking situations. ATI managed to overclock systems to FSB 315 times 8.5 resulting a frequency of 2677.5 MHz on Athlon FX 55 core.
The machine was water-cooled and had new X850XT Platinum Edition card overclocked from 540 MHz to 600 MHz and memory running to a solid 1200MHz. ATI said that it hadn’t modified the motherboard or graphics card, so you can actually get to those scores yourselves.
This single card would score 7000 in 3Dmark 05 and will give you 7500 MB/s in Sandra memory test. We believe that this might be one of the top scores provided by just one card and cooled just with water.
When we asked around which company willmake the board with these overclocking features, we were told that both Asus and MSI decided NoT to include an overclocking option on their boards. We saw the board running and it was running fine, so it makes us wonder how come that Asus and MIS, both of which are familiar with overclocking, failed to use this nice option on their upcoming motherboards.
Retail boards are expected soon and ATI told us that it is shipping many of the chipsets to OEMs already. It still has to build customers' trust in its chipset, but it won't be easy to build such trust with big guys such as MSI and Asus. Both are getting ready to release the boards in retail as well.
Here is how the system we saw looks like:
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/atioc.jpg
The machine was water-cooled and had new X850XT Platinum Edition card overclocked from 540 MHz to 600 MHz and memory running to a solid 1200MHz. ATI said that it hadn’t modified the motherboard or graphics card, so you can actually get to those scores yourselves.
This single card would score 7000 in 3Dmark 05 and will give you 7500 MB/s in Sandra memory test. We believe that this might be one of the top scores provided by just one card and cooled just with water.
When we asked around which company willmake the board with these overclocking features, we were told that both Asus and MSI decided NoT to include an overclocking option on their boards. We saw the board running and it was running fine, so it makes us wonder how come that Asus and MIS, both of which are familiar with overclocking, failed to use this nice option on their upcoming motherboards.
Retail boards are expected soon and ATI told us that it is shipping many of the chipsets to OEMs already. It still has to build customers' trust in its chipset, but it won't be easy to build such trust with big guys such as MSI and Asus. Both are getting ready to release the boards in retail as well.
Here is how the system we saw looks like:
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/atioc.jpg