Quote Originally Posted by NotFred View Post
Please re-read the article. Your question "Since when did linkboost incrase the card clocks" (all fo the different ways you phrase it) are answered. The answer is "since the 9600GT was released" and was in fact the whole point of the article. They even test this with an 8800GT and show that the 8800GT shows no change with pci-e frequency, only the 9600GT.

As far as this being a major tweak goes, this allows you no more overclocking than could be acheived using normal methods, so I can hardly see any advantage.

The disadvantage I can see is that to many reviews it will make the card look like it performs far better at stock setting than it does, as the nvidia chipset will automatically overclock the card, potentially to the point of instability for some samples. It would also, in a review of chipsets, make an Nvidia chipset look like it performed far better than an Intel one, simply by applying automatically the same overclock that could be applied manually on an Intel card.

I can confirm that Linkboost exist on the 680i chipset, and that its function is indeed to increase the pci-e speed when an nvidia card is used, unless you take direct control of this frequency.
Well, assuming that linkboost increases PCI-Express frequency by 25%

650mhzx1,25=812,5mhz

Holly crapp, 9600GTs have been running at 812,5mhz while doing reviews!

Do you really believe it or do you WANT to believe it?

And, oh, I don't know about you, but my EVGA 680i SLI doesn't have the link boost option, can you still confirm it exists? Did you know it was an option on first BIOS for 680i boards? And now it is not?

I can confirm I had 2 8800GT SLI and PCI-Express frequency was 100mhz on Slot 1 and 2, so link boost still exists?

Come on man, do you really think those cards were running at 800mhz core? That would be awesome, wouldn' it?

Peace