[DD] SuperSuperClocked - sounds like every gamer's dream

Graphics card and motherboard manufacturer, EVGA, today announced the arrival of four overclocked NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2s to its line-up, yes, four.

Wanting to take "the fastest single-card solution available today", as concluded by HEXUS, and supe it up that little bit more, EVGA has come up with the following four delightfully named cards:

EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2 1 GB SC - Superclocked Edition (01G-P3-E892-AR)
EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2 1 GB KO - Knock-out Edition (01G-P3-E895-AR)
EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2 1 GB SSC - SuperSuperclocked Edition (01G-P3-E897-AR)
EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2 1 GB BlackPearl - Water Cooled Edition (01G-P3-E897-WR)

So, 9800 GX2 owners, is your card Superclocked? Is it a Knock-out? Or better still, is it SuperSuperclocked? If not, we bet you wish it was - these product names have bragging rights written all over them.

Bragging aside however, what do they actually serve up? Here's a handy little table to make it as clear as could be:


  Core Clock Memory Memory Clock Memory Bandwidth Water Cooling
Superclocked Edition 625MHz 1024 MB, 256 bit DDR3 2000 MHz (effective) 128 GB/s  No
Knock-out Edition 650MHz 1024 MB, 256 bit DDR3 2050 MHz (effective) 131.2 GB/s No
SuperSuperclocked Edition 675MHz 1024 MB, 256 bit DDR3 2100 MHz (effective) 134.4 GB/s No
BlackPearl 675MHz 1024 MB, 256 bit DDR3 2100 MHz (effective) 134.4 GB/s Yes


The SSC and BlackPearl, EVGA's cream-of-the-crop, raise the core clock a further 75MHz from NVIDIA's base specification and more than double the memory clock. These cards therefore, should, in theory, out-pace the stock ZOTAC 9800 GX2 that we reviewed last month.

No official word on pricing just yet, but with EVGA's non-overclocked 9800 GX2 selling at around £400, expect to pay anything over that for all of these overclocked variations.

Official press release: AGAIN EVGA IS FIRST TO MARKET WITH FOUR MORE POWERFUL 9800 GX2

Source: https://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=12545