Follow-up to NVIDIA’s shady trick on 9600GT

 

Page 1: Introduction

Page 2: No more linkBoost in nForce mobos

Page 3: Testbed and remarks

Page 4: 9600GT runs better on NVIDIA mobo?

Page 5: 9600GT’s GPU and PCIe clock relations

Page 6: Other cards also have this issue?

Page 7: Conclusion

GeForce 9600GT is released on Feb 21, 2008. The card’s good performance per watt and performance per dollar really fascinated us. But after we read TPU’s NVIDIA’s shady trick to boost the GeForce 9600GT, we think we really should take a look inside.

Surf around the Internet for several hours, we find people around the world all discussing this matters. People focus on these questions:

  1. nForce mobo will automatically start LinkBoost?
  2. 9600GT runs better when we use NVIDIA mobo?
  3. 9600GT’s GPU clock rise when PCIe clock frequency rise?
  4. Other GeForce also have this issue?

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