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Posted: January 17, 2001 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Diagnostics and Monitoring With the introduction of its WinFast MX DH Pro, Leadtek included onboard hardware monitoring. With the Enhanced GTS however, Leadtek has gone one-step further and included error and fault detection with 3 distinct LED’s to show you what’s going on.  Status LED's WinFox I have covered information about Leadtek’s WinFox monitoring tools in my review of the WinFast MX DH Pro. Surf over to it and take a look as it details what WinFox is all about and how it can assist you in keeping your board healthy and speedy. Overclocking Leadtek chooses to stock its new GTS board with 5.5ns DDR SDRAM instead of the usual 6.0ns type we so often see. Common sense tells me that with the speedier RAM, I should be able to overclock this card pretty well. This is also a reason why Leadtek chose not to release a GeForce 2 GTS Pro board. The Pro would have a higher price tag than a regular GTS but not have major differences in speed. Thus Leadtek chose a wise decision with including faster memory with its Enhanced GTS. I think they are actually begging us to overclock this baby with the options that are included.  LED’s I managed to push this card to a stunning memory setting of 385MHz and a core setting of 225MHz. Our original WinFast GTS’ memory managed only 360MHz. Indeed shaving off 0.5ns really does help. The screen shot above shows AGP4X and Power on but it’s kind of too dim to see. I would have to turn off the lights, but then again the picture would look bad with the lights turned off. Benchmark System Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz Intel D850GB Desktop reference motherboard 256MB PC800 Samsung RDRAM Leadtek WinFast GeForce2 GTS Enhanced 64MB DDR Leadtek WinFast GeForce2 GTS Enhanced 64MB DDR @ Core: 230MHz and Memory: 385MHz IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB UltraATA/100 7200RPM Hitachi GD-7000 12X DVD ROM Intel EtherExpress PRO 100+ Ethernet Adapter Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Windows 2000 SP1 I felt it was necessary to use the Pentium 4 system because its Quake 3 scores are higher than our reference Athlon Thunderbird system. Quake 3 Arena 1.17 Normal 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 High Quality 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 I decided to forgo testing using Unreal Tournament because it just doesn’t push 3D acceleration enough and relies too heavily on the CPU. |
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