Goh, Firingsquad heeft weer eens een primeur, met de eerste review van Diamond's nieuwe Savage2000 videokaartje. De kaart bleek bijzonder sympathiek wat betreft overklokbaarheid: het exemplaar dat door Firingsquad werd getest kan helemaal richting 166/183MHz gepushed worden, dat vanaf een default setting van 125/155MHz!:
Our overclocking results were very surprising. We started work on the 125MHz engine clock first. We increased the clock in 5MHz increments because we didn't really expect to go past 140MHz. 130MHz went by without a problem, 135MHz passed just as easily, 140MHz? No sweat. 145MHz came and went, as did 150MHz. 155MHz? No problem. At this point we started to wonder if S3 gave us a "golden" chip for reviewers. Eventually we reached 175MHz, but stability problems pushed us back to 166MHz -pretty impressive overclock for a chip with a 125MHz default speed.We had a better idea of what to expect with the memory. The 6ns rating told us that 166MHz should be a given, and our previous experiences with other 6ns SDRAM had us expecting maximum speeds between 175MHz and 183MHz. We managed to push the mclock all the way up to 183MHz. The memory wasn't stable at 195MHz and 188MHz. Wow, our Viper II was able to reach 166/183MHz (core/memory) from the 125/155MHz default.
Verder weer veel benchmarks, waaruit naar voren komt dat de Viper II vooral op hoge resoluties achter blijft bij de GeForce 256.
