Asus GeForce GTS 450 TOP Overclocking

How we tested

As always, we did our best to deliver a clean set of benchmarks, with each test repeated three times and an average of those results is what we’re reporting here. In the rare case where performance was inconsistent, we continued repeating the test until we got three results that were consistent.

The tests performed are a mixture of custom in-game timedemos and manually played sections, using FRAPS to record the average and minimum frame rates. We strive to not only record real-world performance you will actually see, but also present the results in a manner that is easy to digest.

Intel Core i7 Test System

• Intel Core i7-965 processor (3.2GHz: 133MHz x 24)
  
• Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 (Intel X58 with three PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots)
  
• 3x 2GB Crucial Ballistix 1,600MHz C8 memory modules (operating in dual channel at DDR3 1,333MHz 9-9-9-24-1T)
  
• ADATA S596 Turbo 1280GB SSD
  
• Seasonic X750 PSU
  
• Windows 7 Home Premium x64
  
• Forceware 260.52

Nvidia graphics cards

• Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 1GB (783MHz GPU, 3.6GHz memory)
  
• Asus GeForce GTS 450 TOP 1GB (925MHz GPU, 4.0GHz memory)
  
• Asus GeForce GTS 450 TOP 1GB (1,004MHz GPU, 4.2GHz memory)

Games Tested

• Mafia II (DX9)
  
• Crysis (DX10)
  
• STALKER Call of Pripyat (DX11)