PowerColor
The PowerColor X700 Pro comes with what looks like just an engraved version of the stock X700 solution. Interestingly enough, this is the best overclocker of the bunch in both core and memory, even with no ramsinks at all. This isn't that surprising, as some of NVIDIA's 6600GT parts have 2ns RAM that reach speeds of nearly 1200 MHz with no ramsinks. GDDR3 runs fairly cool in comparison to older solutions.
Even though the PowerColor solution overclocked higher than the other parts, real world returns on the extra bit of core, and mem clock didn't add up to a lot. This part also had the loudest cooling solution that we tested. This probably means that it did a good job of keeping the part pretty cool.
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Pete84 - Monday, December 13, 2004 - link
Ah, poor ATI . . .Really though, this is the market segment that typically is the bulk of sales, and if ATI can't keep up with nVidia on this one, it will be interesting to see if the new x800 XL and Co can offset the $200 segment.
Pandaren - Monday, December 13, 2004 - link
uh, why is the article icon a Dell Inspiron 700m???