As fun as overclocking is, it does manage to take up a fair bit of time. But every once and a while a product will come along that we feel really deserves a good amount of time put into it to find those perfect clock speeds. Last year it was the Intel Q6600, we wanted to get it to 4.0GHz and we did. We also had that lovely new Intel Core i7 known as the 920 which overclocks so well. This year we're getting into it early though, thanks to NVIDIA. The GeForce GTX 295 is to date the fastest single graphics card you can purchase. We found this out when looking at the Gainward card just the other day. While some would say why bother overclocking something so fast? We reply with why not? - TweakTown

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Extreme OverClock Review

The particular card of choice is the Gainward card we've already looked at. And the overclocking software of choice? Well, we thought we would just try out the ExperTool software that Gainward offered on their utility CD that came with the card. With ExperTool installed and ready to go and no real idea of what kind of clocks we should be able to achieve, many hours were spent increasing the core, memory and shader which was followed by loops of 3DMark Vantage to check just how stable the card was. Eventually we found ourselves with the core moved to 684MHz, 1380MHz shaders and the memory up to 2238MHz effective.

As we have already said, as if the GeForce GTX 295 card wasn't powerful enough already. When it comes to overclocking the card, it has some serious potential. It will be interesting to see what companies like Gainward, EVGA, BFG, ASUS and others who offer fairly decent overclocked cards will do with the GeForce GTX 295 in the near future. It's nice to see that come launch day there isn't any dramas with overclocking the GeForce GTX 295 either. There isn't a doubt in our mind that people will get it into their system and start overclocking the hell out of the card to have those 3DMark ranks climbing over at the Futuremark website.

We love the GeForce GTX 295, but today the card really did go up a notch in our book thanks to the excellent overclocking ability. The big overclock is going to make for some interesting models in the coming months. We do have to wonder though, what happens when someone straps LN2 to this card? There's going to be some high scores out there and no doubt records will begin dropping like flies.