Thermaltake Extreme Giant III

The first tests I ran were with the GF3 Ti500 w/CORB and ramsinks. I used the Nvidia 41.09 driver for the tests. All driver settings were set to performance rather than quality. I have found it to be one of the most stable ones out there. For the tests I ran 3D Mark 2001se Build 330. I ran the tests several times and kept the highest score. (I mean who doesn’t) The first test is at stock speeds and the second is at the maximum overclock I could get without crashing, freezing, or artifacts.

• Ambient: 23 Celsius
• Probe: 37 (set right above graphics card)
• System: 35
• CPU: @ Load 47

Stock speed: 240 MHz GPU Core/ 500 MHz Memory

Maximum Overclock Speed: 275 MHz GPU Core/ 575 MHz Memory

As we see in the pictures the maximum overclock helped the GF3 gain over 600 points. Not to shabby if you ask me. Getting close to 10K with a GF3 is not to bad a score. In reality a gain of 600 points is not going to be that noticeable when playing games and such. It’s more for bragging rights than anything. I did manage to get a score of 9903 @280/275 but the overclock wasn’t stable or repeatable. It was crashing or freezing in every other attempt to run 3D Mark so including it would have been wrong. If it’s not stable and repeatable it doesn’t count in my book.