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At last! Rivatuner 2.10 is here!!!

mascaras said:
link when that happen , click reboot , after reboot open rivatunner and click "Detect now" , now the program will hang up (not responding) and saying "reboot is recomended" , just close it (red cross) and open rivatuner again and the fan control is unlocked !


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haha, worked

 
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Thanks, you're a star :)

I've just discovered that I've got about 15 obsolete keys in my registry for old video cards that I've had, I think that's messing up my video drivers as well :(
 
Finally got mine working...

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(ignore the X1900 Crossfire Edition - it doesn't affect games)

Going to reformat my PC when 8.9 comes out, couldn't get the beta drivers to install - followed the instructions exactly and it just said the driver couldn't start. I suspect there's so much crap left in my registry, etc from my old X1900 and HD3870X2. Tried running RegSupremePro but it didn't help.

In more positive news - have been able to set up a basic auto-fan configuration in Rivatuner. I don't really know what the T min/T max/T operating, etc are supposed to be so I just played around... the net result is that my card stays at around 35% fan duty while the card is below 60C (on the desktop) but as soon as you start using it the speed progressively ramps up. You can see in the above image where I ran Furmark and loaded the GPU, the fan speed went up accordingly.

It's a lot nicer than the XML files too as the speed goes up and down gradually according to temperature rather than at arbitrary steps.
 
Finally settled on:

Duty cycle min: 35
Duty cycle max: 100
T min: 60
T range: 40
T operating: 85
T low limit: 0
T high limit: 95

What the above basically means is that the fan will scale up to what sounds like ~50% duty when I start doing something intensive, but keeps it at ~35% (Duty cycle min) at below 60, which is desktop usage really.
 
Yeah that works well, had some weirdness with one of the cards memory clocks getting stuck in 2d speeds. That's from the 'AMD GPU Clock Tool' sample file. Also if anyone is wondering why they can't edit their values, set AutoFanSpeedControl = 3 in the power user database under fans.

02:47:12, ASIC Temperature via internal TSS [0] (C) = 69.500, ASIC Temperature via internal TSS [1] (C) = 44.000, MCLK(MHz)[0] = 500.00, SCLK(MHz)[0] = 800.00, MCLK(MHz)[1] = 900.00, SCLK(MHz)[1] = 800.00
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Durzel said:
Thread reading ability failure.

I said further up that fan control wasn't supported on the 4870X2, and it's been said in other threads too. :(
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Not at all

As said in this thread others have it working on 4870X2s on XS and other forums.

On mine it looks as if it shoudl work it detects everything correctly jsut the fan slider does not work.
 
CraigN said:
ok re read

need to close riva tuner instead of re boot will have to try that.
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Sorry, I was being a bit trolly :) When I replied I assumed based on what the author said that 4870X2 wasn't supported.

The only way I could get the fan control working on mine was to go to the Fan control section, check the box to "Enable low-level fan control" then when the box comes up to Reboot/Detect Now I clicked Detect Now. At this point Rivatuner just sortof hung (it comes back eventually but when it does it unchecks the box and you're back to square one), so I just closed the app by telling Vista it was no longer responding (clicking the red X close button should achieve this). When I restarted Rivatuner low-level fan control was available.

I guess it's some issue with detection because I could tell even before I enabled fan control that it had no problems reading the fan RPM. The duty % value seems to be stuck at 40% though.
 
Will river tuner allow you to run on stock cooling but achieve useable volume levels or is it still better to go for an after market cooling solution?
 
Everyones opinion of "usable volume levels" is going to be different so in some respects its an impossible question to answer.

40% fan speed seems to be the sweet spot on the 4870X2, anything above that and you start to really notice the additional noise. That said, someone with an HTPC or an otherwise almost-silent PC would notice the difference between stock (~27%) and 35% - which is what I run mine at on the desktop.

From what I can tell the temperature of the card is radically affected by even a small fan speed increase. At stock fan speed my card was at 85C on the desktop. At 35% it will be ~50%.
 
ok so how far are people getting? ive got 900 core and 1100 mem atm, its under water so idle temps are still around 37C acording to ccc
 
Not getting anywhere really overclocking, I suspect there isn't much room for overclocking on stock air as the cards run so hot as standard.
 
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