x800xl slow memory clock?

[Steve Schaub]

Just bought a Gigabyte radeon X800XL and on the website it was advertised as
memory clock at 900 MHz. After all is installed I check in the catalyst
control center and it says the memory clock is at 493MHz. How can this
be?

 

[First of One]

Since the memory is DDR (or GDDR3), it looks like CCC is reporting the
actual clock speed of 493 MHz, which is 986 MHz effective. This matches a
review by Gruntville, which I found after Googling:
http://www.gruntville.com/reviews/video/gigabyte_x800xl/page2.php

The 900 MHz advertised by Gigabyte online is conservative. What does it say
on the box?