Review: Asus 3GB 7970 DirectCUII graphics card

So we have checked out the stock results of the card, now let’s see what kind of over clocking we can get and check out the performance from there.

Overclocking setup

Asus have their own custom overclocking program, so for the testing we are going to use that, although you can just use AMD’s overclocking software(Catalyst) or something like MSI afterburner if you are more use to it, but for testing, we are going to use the Asus GPU Tweak program. So before we take a look at the overclocking results. Let take a look at the application itself.
The application couldn’t be more simple. Basically you just set the clock speeds for both the GPU and memory. There is the choice of setting up different clock speeds on different profiles for whatever your needs may be, the program also has a built-in temperature monitoring tool for checking how hot the card gets.


So for the overclocking we made this simple, we pushed the tabs to the max which in turn means a nice 125MHz overclock which results from the stock clock of 1000MHz to 1125MHz. The memory has a max setting of 6300MHz which is a huge 700MHz overclock compared to the stock setting of 5600MHz. So during the benchmarking we will also be marking the temperatures to see how the huge cooler handles it.

Craig O'Sullivan

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