Thursday, July 16th 2009
MSI N260GTX Lightning Strikes 1.1 GHz Core Clock Speed Mark
It looks like MSI's beating the drums about military-grade superiority of its N260GTX Lightning over its competitors has finally come to bear some fruit. Renowned enthusiast hipro5 from Greece set a new GPU core clock-speed record for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, with a stress-stable 1100 MHz, with its shader domain clocked at 2205 MHz. Aided with an Intel Core i7 975 XE clocked at 5.57 GHz (HTT disabled, 4 GB DDR3 memory clocked at 2064 MHz DDR), the bench stood Aquamark with scores of 392,063 points (GPU score: 71,955, CPU: 40,070). The score validation can be found here The memory of the graphics card remained at its stock frequency of 999 MHz. The same bench at slightly lower speeds of 1070/2205/999 MHz (core/shader/memory), ran 3DMark03 stable, scoring 73461 points. The stock cooler of the N260GTX however, was excluded from this feat. The HWBot record reveals that the graphics card was cooled using a liquid-nitrogen (LN2) cooler.
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38 Comments on MSI N260GTX Lightning Strikes 1.1 GHz Core Clock Speed Mark
On a side note, I am considering their OCv4 card as my next videocard :)
Lol at the HWbot statistic: www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=874548 That VGA is a lone dot on the right side :)
@AltecV1 That Lightning is a special overclock card with onboard vmod and voltage check point, check their website: event.msi.com/vga/N260GTX_Lightning/index.html
www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/510-8-amd-phenom-twkr.html
1.44v at 5.8GHZ at -187
almost got confused and thought it was achieved on the MSI fitted air cooling, damn near ordered 2 until i read the article....:laugh:
1. vGPU mod
2. vMEM vDD mod
3. vMEM vDDQ mod
4. OCP mod
5. OVP mod
6. recapping
7. choke overhaul
You can get ati's running at 1GHz out of the store on air...
Can that beat one 1GHz HD4890??
The reason why more is not always faster is because of the architectural differences between the two core's. Hell I'd venture to say that this 260 is faster than a 4870X2 at stock. Anyway an example would be that a GTX260 is faster than a 4870 despite the difference in clock speed 575 versus the 4870's 750mhz.
An easy way of seeing things i guess...
Still id like to see comparisons and id like someone trying to OC the hell out of an HD4890