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After completing the initial group of benchmarks at the 9500's default clockspeeds of 275MHz core and 270MHz memory, I tried overclocking the card using the Rage3D Tweak utility (available for download HERE). The card came with 3.3ns Infineon memory modules, which should theoretically run at 300MHz or better. However, as reported by many card owners with this same memory, it's overclockability was disappointing. Settings of 300MHz or more would generate "pixel pop" artifacts and occasional polygon errors, so I was limited to 290MHz on the memory to insure good image stability. The core was more cooperative, running as high as 345MHz before screen lockups began to occur. For safety sake, I backed off to 330MHz for the benchmarking, but that still represents a pretty healthy clock boost for the core speed (20%). Overall, not quite up to 9700 Pro clockspeeds (325/310), but close! As before, I ran sets of benchmarks with FSAA and AF off and at 4x/8x.