Overclocking and Noise
Overclocking
The review sample is the very card that Beyond3D took to 533MHz core and 1114MHz memory. I faired slightly better on the core clock than Dave, but a little less well on the memory clock, finding a final stable setting of 539/1088.That clock results in a 3DMark03 score just shy of 11000, for the curious. As always, take the overclocking results of retail cards sampled to us by AIB partners as a rough guideline, since we can't guarantee they didn't send us a tweaked sample.
Noise
Using the standard reference cooler means the GeCube isn't overly noisy. Fan speed adjust based on GPU temperature means that it's quiet when you don't stress the GPU.It's not completely silent, but it won't make you run out and buy something else, or an aftermarket cooler.
