Testing the Slipstream kit on an ASUS TNT2 card

After all installation was done now it was time to see what the Slipstream Enhancement kit could do with this non-Ultra TNT2 card from ASUS.

The V-3800 came with a heatsink/fan combo directly from the manufacturer, also it came default clocked at 125/150mhz (core and memory) which is pretty much the same for TNT2s that follow NVIDIA spec.

But as I told you before, most cards are coming with its own overclocking utility and in the case of the V-3800 I could get the card running up to 150/175mhz anything higher would cause graphical glitches or system lock-ups.

BUT that was using the original cooling, now… could I improve that number with the Thermo Coupler? Be sure I did, however notice that I could only increase the core speed, the 7ns memory couldn’t run at anything higher than 175mhz.

After doing a lot of benchmarks and tests I found that 165mhz was the best I could get for the core. This is a pretty nice increase if you consider it is 40mhz higher than default speed (a 32% increase) and 15mhz faster than when it was overclocked with the original heatsink (a 10% increase).

Anyway, here are the results from the benchmarks using the original manufacturer speed, overclocked speeds with the original cooling and then with Slipstream Enhancer installed.

Benchmarks

Quake 2 3.20 Timedemo 1 (OpenGL)

Unreal Castle Timedemo (Direct3D)

3DMark 99 MAX benchmark (Direct3D)

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