SuperSuperClocked - sounds like every gamer's dream
Graphics card and motherboard manufacturer, EVGA, today announced the arrival of four overclocked NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2s to its line-up, yes, four.
Wanting to take "the fastest single-card solution available today", as concluded by HEXUS, and supe it up that little bit more, EVGA has come up with the following four delightfully named cards:
- EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2 1 GB SC - Superclocked Edition (01G-P3-E892-AR)
- EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2 1 GB KO - Knock-out Edition (01G-P3-E895-AR)
- EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2 1 GB SSC - SuperSuperclocked Edition (01G-P3-E897-AR)
- EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2 1 GB BlackPearl - Water Cooled Edition (01G-P3-E897-WR)
So, 9800 GX2 owners, is your card Superclocked? Is it a Knock-out? Or better still, is it SuperSuperclocked? If not, we bet you wish it was - these product names have bragging rights written all over them.
Bragging aside however, what do they actually serve up? Here's a handy little table to make it as clear as could be:
| Core Clock | Memory | Memory Clock | Memory Bandwidth | Water Cooling | |
| Superclocked Edition | 625MHz | 1024 MB, 256 bit DDR3 | 2000 MHz (effective) | 128 GB/s | No |
| Knock-out Edition | 650MHz | 1024 MB, 256 bit DDR3 | 2050 MHz (effective) | 131.2 GB/s | No |
| SuperSuperclocked Edition | 675MHz | 1024 MB, 256 bit DDR3 | 2100 MHz (effective) | 134.4 GB/s | No |
| BlackPearl | 675MHz | 1024 MB, 256 bit DDR3 | 2100 MHz (effective) | 134.4 GB/s | Yes |
The SSC and BlackPearl, EVGA's cream-of-the-crop, raise the core clock a further 75MHz from NVIDIA's base specification and more than double the memory clock. These cards therefore, should, in theory, out-pace the stock ZOTAC 9800 GX2 that we reviewed last month.
No official word on pricing just yet, but with EVGA's non-overclocked 9800 GX2 selling at around £400, expect to pay anything over that for all of these overclocked variations.
Official press release: AGAIN EVGA IS FIRST TO MARKET WITH FOUR MORE POWERFUL 9800 GX2
Official product page: evga-europe.com
