Bjorn3D takes a further look at overclocking the GeForce 8800 GTS. For this project he has selected a FOXCONN NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS, the second-best video card available on the market. By default, the FOXCONN 8800 GTS operates with a 575MHz G80 GPU core clock speed, a 1188MHz shader, and a 900MHz (1800MHz) GDDR3 RAM speed.

For the cost of the product and about an hour of time spent, I was able to take my FOXCONN 8800 GTS and overclock the G80 GPU up to 600MHz (575MHz default) along with a GDDR3 RAM speed increase up to 1030MHz (900MHz default). This amounts to a 25MHz GPU improvement and a 130MHz RAM improvement; and all for free!

Sure, the results did not transform my 8800 GTS into a GTX, but as I mentioned before this is just plain impossible because of architecture. When it was all said and done, I did make enough improvement to the 8800 GTS to keep it more relative to the 8800 GTS. My video card was already a product pushed closely to the limit from the factory, and now I have it operating and performing as best as it can.