Overclocking

To find the maximum overclock of our card we used a combination of Rivatuner, ATITool and our benchmarking suite.



The final overclocks of our card are 805 MHz Core (9 % overclock) and 1082 MHz Memory (13 % overclock). Relative to NVIDIA's standard 9600 GT specifications (650/900) the overclocks are 24% and 20%.

EVGA's sample is an excellent overclocker being the first 9600 GT card on our testbench that could beat the 800 MHz core frequency mark with stock cooling. Also the memory overclock is really big considering the memory chips are marked for 1.0 GHz operating frequency.

Temperatures

The temperatures we see here are very low for a single slot cooler. Given those numbers I think there is still some additional potential left for manual fan control, bringing down the fan noise of the card even further.