[section_title title=”Overclocking”]Overclocking
With a pretty strong overclock out of the box (1241/1762MHz), anything else would really be considered a bonus but given the over extensive use of the “OC” chip, the power boost caps on the rear of the card and combined with the 2 x 8pin power inputs, ZOTAC really don’t have any excuse for this card not to overclock well!
So some of you might be wondering why I haven’t used the new ZOTAC FireStorm overclocking software to do the overclocking on a ZOTAC card; what a mouthful! Well the simple answer is our of fairness to every other graphics card I have reviewed, I have always used MSI Afterburner and although the ZOTAC FireStorm software is very nifty and easy to get to grips with, it is purely for testing/consistency reasons.
So with very high hopes for the ZOTAC AMP! Omega edition graphics card due to all the marketing bumph of overclocking and “OC” chips and the words power all over the place, I set about using our trusty copy of MSI Afterburner to see what this card is made of. After a play, some benching and the general tweaking associated with overclocking, I managed to get an overclock of 1292MHz with a maximum boost clock of 1431MHz which is more than acceptable. This is complimented with an overclock of 1987MHz on the memory and if you aren’t sure of the percentages, the core gained 15% with the memory coming in at just under 13%; not as good as I would have hoped for but the out of the box overclock is very strong and goes in ZOTAC’s favour massively in my opinion.
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