Inquirer Takes ABIT R9800XT to 505MHz
ABIT and Asetek enable the fastest video card on the planet

March 23^rd, 2004 - There's overclocking, and then there's overclocking with ABIT and Asetek. The folks from Inquirer took ABIT's new R9800XT video card, and paired it with a Vapochill cooling system from Asetek.

Here's the summary of the project from the Inquirer: "The Asetek guys got the idea to watercool an ABIT Radeon 9800XT card and we gladly accepted the challenge as we wanted to see what this baby could do. The graphics card water block was placed at the GPU and of course we had to remove the Radeon original cooler that was covering the front of the RAM modules as well."

And what was the result of all this? "We ended up to close to a 100MHz overclock with its old R360 core that is actually built with 0.15µ (micron) architecture that should be more then old, warm and non overclockable. Still we managed to have it stable to 505MHz and manage to keep it stable for over 72 hours while we were testing heavily overclocked CPUs."

The conclusion: "For graphics overclockers, the water solution is definitely something that should look at. Almost 100MHz in graphics world or should we say close to 20 per cent overclock is definitely not something that you see every day. Using air cooling methods, I was able to push same cards to 450MHz but not to 505MHz milestone value...If you're into overclocking, soundless computing and pushing the limits of graphics solutions this is the kit for you. It would sure help you be the fastest graphic kid on the block...this is the fastest Radeon 9800XT that we know of..."

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