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TwinTech and Vvikoo overclocked 9600GT, 5-way roundup

Videocards/VGA Reviews by geoffrey @ 2008-05-19

For quite some time now NVIDIA has allowed their partners to sell their reference products at overclocked speeds with a custom VGA cooler. Today we take a look at two of such none-reference clocked 9600GT video cards, one from newcomer Vvikoo and one from last year startup, TwinTech. We´ll investigate how the extra clocks make the product stand out compared to 3 other samples we have tested before.

TES: Oblivion

TES: Oblivion
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The Oblivion graphics engine can be very taxing for even the fastest hardware once you increase the level of detail. There is also a difference in performance compared running outside, in city area or inside a dungeon, the outside is most taxing for the graphics card, the town area is noticeably easier on the GPU while the dungeon is usually less taxing of all. We tested the heaviest environment with HDR enabled and in-game settings maxed out.

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Our contenders score once again very close to each other, over the entire test session every card played the game fluently, but in minimum framerate the 8800GT does score few % better then the 9600's. The overclocked cards didn't really stand out that well here; the cards hardly offer an improvement over the reference design.

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Comment from Massman @ 2008/05/19

Love it, great work Geoff!

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