| #757 - Generic x1600Pro Crossfire |
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| Written by Zach Jeffers | |||||||||
| Saturday, 18 November 2006 | |||||||||
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Results: As you can see the from the results below, the change up of drivers do not make much of a difference at all. Both testing during gaming and benchmarking with 3dMark resulted lest than 1% gain if any FPS gain at all! Overclocking these cards was fairly easy using ATITool. We managed to get these generic OEM cards up to a modest 610.88 MHz and 432 MHz on the GPU and Memory respectfully. These cards ran fairly hot at this point and I am sure that with an adequate cooling solution, these cards could overclock even more.  If you watched video review #756 on the HIS X1650XT 256mb video card, you will see that stock, this x1600Pro only fell only 184 points behind in the 3dMark06 scores! I would say that this might even be due to the fact of the test system on Rodney's side being a bit better than my test rig. Overclocking the generic card to a core lower than the stock of the HIS card and the memory clocked 36% slower results in a slightly higher score! Not to shabby for a no named OEM card... Placed into Crossfire, there is an obvious lead.  In game testing, the generic x1600Pro out did the HIS x1650XT by 11 FPS stock and 19 FPS better slightly overclocked! I would have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by these generic cards. I would have never thought that something that you would see in a manufactured PC would be near the quality of third party venders such as HIS and the like. |
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