Duh. [H] overclocking a test sample doesnt meant sh*t. WTF are they modding a test sample anyway ?
Test samples are that, beta-quality, pre-release, *unfinished* products. Unfinished drivers as well, and no you cannot fine-tune anything until you've got the real thing in your engineering hands. It has been seen before, final drivers usually boost up the performance for quite an amount.
"530/535 which is far from stellar" -> !!! Dude look at these figures, 535 DDR that means 1070 -> PC8560 memory !!! Try to touch that with anything else than a mainframe.
And a *better designed* chip at 500 MHz is likely to be more efficient than a *older* chip at 300 MHz.
Currently those test sample benchmarks are what they are, test samples.
BTW i've seen prices for the 9700pro, they're level with announced FX prices.
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