Moving on to memory overclocking we see much of the same as most cards, 18 in fact, reach 1066MHz.  Two hit 1086, and 4 manage just 1016MHz.   Stock is 900MHz so the most common overclock is just over 18% over stock. 

We wrap up with shader testing.  Here we see the same results, and it is clear the lower clocks are from the same cards, and the higher clocks are also from the same cards.  We get as high as 1984MHz, or 359MHz over stock, but most hit 1977MHz.  Four cards only made it to 1770MHz.  At 1977MHz you are looking at almost a 22% overclock.

Putting all the clocks for each card into a single graph we get an easier visual of which card did the best.   Cards 17 and 18 were the top overclockers, with 14, 15, and 5 being the worst. 

After getting these results we took a 9600GT at stock clocks, and then overclocked to 790/1066/1977 and tested with Crysis at 1680X1050 on high settings. 

At stock speeds we got 22.68 frames per second.  Overclocked 26.5 was the result as almost 4 frames per second of an increase.  That equates almost a 17% performance bump which is just a bit under the roughly 20% overall clock improvement.

So we conclude our overclocking test of the GeForce 9600GT.   As you can see the results for many cards were very similar, and almost all of them had close to 20% overclocks.  We hope you enjoyed these tests, and we expect we will do more large scale GPU overclocks in the future.  Please check out our most recent graphics card reviews, and check back for Battlefield Heroes benchmarks later today.

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