Bij X-Bit Labs kun je een verse review vinden van de Abit Siluro GF256 GTS. Deze GeForce2 GTS kaart maakt gebruik van het standaard nVidia reference design en is uitgerust met 6ns 64MB DDR 333MHz geheugen en een TV-Out. Uiteraard is er getest op overklokbaarheid, en de resultaten waren zeer positief. Nadat de standaard cooler was vervangen door een Blue Orb met koelsnot bleek het beestje in staat om op 250/415MHz volledig stabiel te draaien. Met deze kloksnelheden werd het verschil met een GeForce2 Ultra akelig klein. X-Bit benoemt de Abit Siluro GF256 GTS dan ook als best overklokbare in zijn klasse:
ABIT Siluro GF256 GTS has proved to be the most overclockable member of the class. That's the reason for its good results in gaming applications, so it can become "The Best to Choose" or "The Highest Speed for a Plum Sum". If it is not overclocked, it shows casual results for cards of the rank, but in case it is, it can emulate the success of NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro graphics card and even go farther. Moreover, ABIT Siluro GF256 has now almost caught up with NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra GTS in regular resolutions! And since it is cheaper than NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro and NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra, the card can become a good choice for gaming fans.
Among the card's shortcomings there stand the presence of 64MB graphics memory (that tells on the card's price only and hardly influences its performance), but on the other hand this drawback results from its virtues. If it hadn't been for DDR SDRAM, the card would have never achieved such high working frequency. And as for 32MB of memory, the cards like that are designed for DDR SGRAM that can't indulge overclockers' demands so well.
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