Overclocking
Are all those ferrite-core chokes and solid capacitors worth it? If you're into the overclocking scene they are.
Keeping the card's voltage to stock levels, we were easily able to add 85MHz to the core and 100MHz to the memory - raising speeds to an effective 900MHz and 4,400MHz, respectively
Doing so didn't introduce any signs of instability, and users wanting to feed the card a little more voltage will most likely be able to take the core frequency to 950MHz and beyond.
Your mileage may vary depending on the quality of your cherry-picked GPU, but this is a card with ample overclocking potential and Gigabyte's bundled OC-Guru utility will enable you to manually increase GPU and memory voltage independently.
With our card's core running at a blazing 900MHz, performance is increased by 10 per cent. The frame rates returned aren't a million miles from that of a £275 stock-clocked Radeon HD 5870.
