Overclocking Benchmarks
We described our overclocking methods and successes earlier, but what difference did it make to the bottom line? Let’s have a look at Crysis to see where our overclocks got us:
While overclocking sounds impressive, it rarely makes that much of a difference on bottom-line performance. Interestingly, overclocking seems to have helped out the Asus models the most, as the ENGTX260 Matrix and the ENGTS250 Dark Knight both showed enough of a performance increase to meet their overclocked rivals. The Gigabyte GV-N96TSL-1GI also got a nice boost, helping it reach its actively-cooled sibling when overclocked.
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Would you run the first passive card with negative air pressure?
@mi1ez. Not too sure how yours is set up. But for most living rooms I'm sure the average Ikea or Argos T.V. cabinet wouldn't have adequate airflow for that. Getting waffted with heat in the summer wouldn't be my choice.
I don't have a passive card. I was just curious really given what they said about the card drawing cool air from outside the case.
The MSI overclocking panel appears to claim the fan is at 600,000rpm!
I wonder if there's an option on the Asus ENGTS250 Dark Knight card that allows you to run the cooler passive when idle? Seems like the heatsink could pull that off easily, doesn't it? It would be nice to have silent card when in 2D
so the question is can you control RPM of the fan and if so, can you put it to 0% when idle?
Well I just bought the Asus ENGTS250 card based on this review, and not only is the memory clocked slower at 2000Mhz DDR, the card does not slow it's clocks in 2D mode leading to substantially higher power consumption at idle.
I'm not impressed.