Gigabyte GTX 660Ti OC Video Card Review

Video cards with a factory overclock are good for any gamer since they can offer you better performance with only a minor price premium, overclocking them beyond this is just money in your pocket. 

Overclocking the Kepler is a little different than what we have done in the past.  There are no shader controls and you now have to deal with the non-adjustable Boost Clock.   For these tests we were limited to a mild overclock of 1103Mhz Core and 1702Mhz Memory with a boost clock ramping things up to 1181Mhz, or was it?

During our benchmarking runs we left Afterburner running so we could monitor temps and core usage.  After several runs we noticed something strange, it would seem that under load the core clock was boosting up to 1311Mhz.  Memory clock remained locked at 1702Mhz but the boost clock was way higher than we had expected to see.

Given the unexpected core boost let's see if that increased any numbers.

Overall we have a good performance boost across the board.  Out of habit we cranked the fans up to 100% for these tests and given the temps we have no reason to believe that leaving the fan controls on auto would have a negative impact at all. Keep in mind that overclocking is not guaranteed so your results may vary.

Clearly Crysis 2 got the most out of the overclock with an amazing 60FPS @ 1080p!