The differences in a real life situation, however are negligible and a large part of that can be attributed to the fact that the Phantom is, by no means, shy of overclocking of either the engine or the memory. Further, the frame rates obtained at High Quality settings in Quake 3 Arena Test are more than respectable and, in fact, when overclocked, there is little difference between the SDR-based Phantom and other, DDR based GeForce cards. Overclocking a video card, of course, only makes sense, if there is enough CPU power to push beyond the limitations of the graphics subsystem. Suffice it to say that the MSI Phantom is one of the most overclockable video cards we ever laid our hands on. All in all, the Phantom is one of the best video cards currently available, that is, if it can be found.
Phantoms are hard to catch, now more than ever.
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