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Albatron GeForce FX 5700P Turbo Overclocking Dropping in the Coolbits registry entries we opened up the clock frequency adjustments in the card's display properties. Personally, I have found the 'Auto Detect' in the more recent NEDs to not even be close to accurate, so we explored the limits the old fashion (and very time consuming) way. Beginning with our 425MHz core and 650MHz memory speed we inched our way up to the wall of 477MHz on the GPU and 721MHz on the memory. This puts the Albatron 5700P Turbo at the same GPU speed as the Ultra model. 721MHz was also a nice gain on our memory which as you recall, was rated at 700MHz. We define 'the wall' as absolutely ZERO artifacts or glitches being perceptible and the card being able to run at this speed for at least two hours as such. Let's revisit UT2003 and see what this does for us.
Conclusion Albatron has tried and I think succeeded in bringing the thinking behind the very successful FX5900 to the midrange VGA market. Losing some of the expensive features the FX5700 Ultra sports, the FX5700P Turbo shows it still can get the job done and very well at that. The 5700P Turbo also does not require a Molex plug for extra power. This is nice to see that at least someone is recognizing plugging in one Molex is minimally acceptable but two is almost nuts. Kudos go to Albatron for keeping things simple as they should be. The only thing we didn't like about the Albatron FX5700P Turbo is that it seems to be hard to find at present. I'm hoping this will change because with the excellent performance for 140 clams, it should be very popular and we highly recommend it based on it having lots of bang for the buck. Pros
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