NVIDIA's shady trick to boost the GeForce 9600GT

[Luka_Aveiro]

Also, does this "conspiracy theory" even make sense?

Why would nvidia want to show lower clocks? It does not make sense. There is no reason for it.

Man, you all read too fast

This is the deal:
Core clock is affected by PCI-Express frequency. Why?
Because there's no crystal clock generator chip in 9600GT's.
So how is the clock generated? By using a quarter of PCI Express frequency.

Do you got it 'till here? Good.

Now, what if I increase PCI-Express frequency??? What's the real life consequence?
You raise your core clock. If you increase PCI Express Frequency to 110mhz, you will bump your core clock by 10%.

As my friend destroyer (olá, meu ) has shown, the results speak for themselves...

Apparently shader clock is not affected by this overclocking method, as 743mhz core achieved by PCI-Express frequency is slower than 743mhz manually overclocking.

Once AGAIN, linkboost has nothing to do with this, it olny has to do that it could have raisen core clocks a bit higher than a regular mobo.