Installation and Overclocking

Installation of the board went smoothly on the two BX chipset based motherboards I've tried. I did have problems with the installation of the board on motherboards with the popular VIA133A chipset. An FIC KA-11 motherboard would refuse to run the Winfast GeForce 2 properly. It would simply lock up at random times. Installation on the Asus P3V4X went a little smoother. The only thing that was required was setting the board to 2X AGP operation. At a setting of AGP 4X, the Winfast GeForce 2 would lock up when entering a 3D game or application. The 2X operation solved the problem completely.

Like most GeForce 2 boards, the Leadtek Winfast GeForce 2 GTS comes with a default clock speed of 200MHz for the core and 333MHz for the memory. With a heatsink 220% the size of a normal GeForce 2 heatsink, you would think I would be in overclocking heaven with this board, but like I said before, the GeForce 2 doesn't produce as much heat as the original GeForce.

In order to overclock, I used the coolbits registry hack to enable the overclocking sliders. This gives me the ability to overclock both the core clock speed and the memory clock speed. With the two months of use with this board, I was able to play around with the different clock settings to determine what is stable and what is not. My particular board was able to clock at 236MHz for the core and 360MHz for the memory. This is generally an average overclock for a GeForce 2 board.

Performance

To gauge the performance of the Leadtek Winfast GeForce 2 GTS, I decided to take a look at the performance from various clock speeds in 3DMark2K with the default settings, 1024x768x16. This can show you how the board performs with a CPU clock speed closer to yours and helps by showing the CPU scaling of the board. I also decided to use the popular Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament timedemos.

Test System

• Pentium 3 @ 866MHz
• Asus P3V4X @ 133MHz bus
• 128MB HSDRAM
• Promise Fasttrack66 IDE RAID
• 2 x 20.5GB WD 7200RPM HD RAID-0 41GB

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