I guess it's all true guys. I have been running 9600GT's clocked at 720MHz out of the box, but the card never remained stable in my tests. I got in another sample, same happened. Now, due to rushing things, I have left my sources wondering what the problem could be, but now it all seems to come down to the simple fact where my PCIe bus speed could have been the problem all the time. I have it overclocked to 110MHz all the time which makes the GPU run at 780MHz instead of 720MHz, downclocking the GPU solved it so I guess PCIe speed did affect card clocks. Makes sense, I really don't know why else my three samples couldn't clock further then 710MHz with 110MHz PCIe speed.


I have an Intel X38 chipset. Those wondering if it will work on any chipset, please spend some time reading the article. It counts only 4 pages and you will not have to spend time posting 10 times here on XS in order to find out. It is based on PCIe speed, nothing to due with Linkboost instead that Linkboost will now overclock your VGA GPU too further increasing the total system performance.