Leadtek Winfast GTX 260 Extreme+ Review

RHKCommander959 - March 5, 2009
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Testing:

Testing the Leadtek WinFast card is conducted through nine benchmarks some of which are recently released games. The results are measured with the card at stock speed, and again overclocked - then compared to the results of several other similar cards. The system is slightly overclocked to 3ghz, and is paired with tri-channel DDR3. The card is tested with latest drivers from Nvidia directly. When overclocked, the fan is set to 100% to get the relative maximum overclock.

Processor: Intel Core I7 920 150x20
Motherboard: MSI X58 Platinum
Memory: Mushkin HP3 12800 7-7-7-20
Video Card(s): Leadtek WinFast GTX260 Extreme+ (Leadtek Limited)
Power Supply: Mushkin 800 watt Modular power supply
Hard Drive: 1 x Western Digital Green 1TB SATA
Optical Drive: LG DVD-RW
OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition 64bit SP1

Comparison Video Cards:

Overclocking:

Overclocked settings:

Leadtek WinFast GTX260 Extreme+ (Leadtek Limited) 742/1502/1237

The card is already overclocked on the core to 602 MHz; with Rivatuner a 23% overclock was easy for the core speed, while the ram netted a 24% overclock from 999 MHz to 1237 MHz. Shaders were only bumped up to 1502 MHz from 1296 MHz to make sure everything was stable. The card had a little more headroom left, but the ram did not run stable any higher, it would cause a restart.