Asus EN8800GT TOP Review

ccokeman - March 23, 2008

Lowest Prices

Testing:

At OverclockersClub.com, we use a series of benchmarks to stress the graphics card. We will use a series of new, as well as more seasoned gaming benchmarks, to show how well the Asus EN8800GT TOP compares to some of the other enthusiast video cards on the market. All driver settings and clock speeds will be left at factory default settings on both the CPU and GPU to minimize or eliminate any variables from impacting the results. The test system used in this review is listed below.

Processor: Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad 266x9
Motherboard: Abit IX38 Quad GT
Memory: Mushkin HP2 6400 5-4-4-12
Video Card(s):Asus EN8800GT TOP 512MB
Power Supply: Mushkin 650watt Modular Power supply
Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 320GB SATA
Opticals: NEC DV5700
O/S: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

Comparison Video Cards:

Sapphire HD 3870
Asus 8800GTX 768MB
XFX 9600GT

Overclocking:

Overclocked settings:

Asus EN8800GT TOP 760/1054

As a factory overclocked card, the expectation was that the increase in core clock and memory speeds would not be that significant. Overclocked cards usually have little performance headroom left to increase the clock speeds to gain additional performance. The final speeds I attained were 60MHz above stock on the GPU core and 44MHz on the memory. Neither were really significant, but high enough to increase the performance of the Asus 8800GT. This allowed the card to perform much better than a stock clocked 8800GT. The performance increase in benchmarks was sometimes not evident in games until the higher resolutions were run.