How did we overclock on air

To get you all warmed up (or rather, cooled down), let's start with some pre-bench session air cooled results. As we sat in the kitchen of Massman's residence, the ambient temperature was quite high, especially in contrary to the temperatures in the Bench room (which is the attic in this case). The overclock was therefore not as high as we'd achieved before, but it gave us a few pointers in order to know what results we could expect.

All results were obtained using a completely stock cooled system. The video card was modified and ran at 1,35v vGpu. The nVidia drivers were tweaked quite roughly, which means set everything to performance and set lod to 4,9 (except for Aquamark which ran with lod 0). The 3DMark01 run was scrambled, so we took the time to choose the best bench order to obtain the highest possible score.

3DMark01:


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E8500: 4277 MHz

9600GT: 850/2046/1100 MHz

Note: Running the same vga clock speeds combined with an E6300 @ 3.5Ghz, we only reached 51k points.

3DMark03:


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E8500: 4277 MHz

9600GT: 825/1986/1100 MHz

3DMark05:


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E8500: 4277 MHz

9600GT: 825/1986/1100 MHz

3DMark06:


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E8500: 4277 MHz

9600GT: 825/1986/1100 MHz

Aquamark 3:


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E8500: 4277 MHz

9600GT: 850/2046/1100 MHz

All in all, not that bad for a €140 on air cooling