Overclocking
a passively cooled card is no the smartest idea
in the world, but we still decided to go for it.
Since this is a pro series card there is no Overdrive
tab in the CCC, so we used ATI Tray Tools to do
the dirty work. Being confident we raised the
GPU speed all the way to 620Mhz (26Mhz over the
default) and the memory to 710Mhz (17Mhz over
the default). We managed to find the perfect clocks
with our first attempt, as raising either the
GPU or memory speeds higher resulted in artifacting
and crashes.
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Both games
display a similar increase in performance, which
in this case helps quite a bit. While 2 fps is almost
unnoticeable when a game is running at 60 frames
per second it is a welcome increase when we are
dealing with framerates below 20fps. Let’s
be fair though – no one will buy a passively
cooled graphics card for its overclocking potential.
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