Speaking to Gainward at CeBit, it seems they plan to wrestle XFX for the title of fastest clocked GeForce 7900 GTX. With XFX's XXX Extreme coming in at 690MHz, 40MHz over standard, Gainward are shooting for something even higher. Still in development and with clocks yet to be finalised, Gainward are currently aiming for around 720MHz core and 900MHz mem.

Clocks in that region would see Gainward shipping the fastest clocked GPU to date, and since it's on NVIDIA's flagship graphics product, the rough 10% clock boost will see it even more competetive with ATI Radeon X1900 XT and XTX products.

Gainward aren't using watercooling for it either, dropping CoolFX recently, so it'll be all air cooled. Whether it uses the standard heatsink or not is something else, though. Again, we must stress that clocks aren't finalised yet, but Gainward definitely do want to oust XFX at the top.