[vinton13]

Hey guys. I got myself a Gigabyte Windforce HD7950 recently. Notice they said in the description the core is 900MHz.

I realized 'normal' 7950s comes with 800MHz on the core, and boost with 975MHz. But this card came with 1000MHz. But no where in the description said anything about it having boost. At the time I paid $299 for it.

So what exactly do I have here?

 

[raghu78]

you have the newer version of gigabyte hd 7950 oc with 1 ghz boost clocks and FZ1 BIOS. locked voltage. but you should be able to overclock to 1100 - 1150 mhz at stock voltage.

 

[Legonut]

It means it came factory overclocked from Gigabyte. "Boost" means nothing but a factory overclock. Yes, technically you don't have a boost version but in reality, everyone does.

 

[vinton13]

Alright thanks.