Review: HIS Excalibur Platinum Radeon 9600

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 14 August 2004, 00:00

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD), HiS Graphics

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Overclocking and Noise

A tiny heatsink and the uncooled memory modules were never going to make for a record breaking overclock. As it turns out, it stopped nearly exactly on my pre-testing prediction of 360/430.



Enough to endow the card with 1428Mpixels/sec of theoretic pixel fillrate and the same number in texel fillrate, the Radeon's single texture unit per render pipeline sees to that. Memory bandwidth edges up to 6.7GB/sec or thereabouts, with a final 3DMark03 score at those clocks of 2684.

As always, overclocking results on retail board reviews have to be taken with a giant pinch of salt, just incase the vendor sends the reviewer a hand picked sample that overclocks just a bit too well.

Noise

What noise? The Excalibur's tiny little fan barely made an audible whisper. Just how cards in this sector should be with their low clocked, frugal GPUs with memory that barely requires a gnat's fart in air flow to keep themselves cool.