Sapphire Blizzard X1900 XTX water-cooled graphics card
Thermaltake to the rescue?
27th March 2006 13:17 GMT

The Blizzard X1900 XTX runs a core speed of 648MHz core with an effective memory speed of 1.55GHz, which gave a score of 11,069 in 3DMark05 using a Sapphire A9RD580Adv motherboard, an FX-57 processor and 1GB of Kingston KX4300 memory.
We used the Catalyst 6.3 drivers to increase the core to speed 690MHz and the memory to 1.6GHz (the highest settings available) which raised the 3DMark05 score to 11,325 marks. Throughout we measured temperatures of 40° on the water block and memory heatsinks with 30° at the exhaust vent of the Tide Water cooler.



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