We've already established that the big selling point of XFX's GeForce 9600 GT Alpha Dog Edition is its clock speeds, and there are certainly some decent increases to be found here. Starting out with the board's core, this comes clocked at 740MHz, with a shader clock of 1850MHz, giving us factory overclocks of 90MHz and 225MHz respectively. Memory also gets a clock speed bump, with this board sporting GDDR3 RAM clocked at 1GHz against the 900MHz on a reference board - In other words, a 100MHz factory overclock.