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smart doctor

RedStarRiot

RedStarRiot

RedStarRiot

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this is a terrible piece of software, i try to overclock my 5870 slightly and it bricks my system. today i tried again and it bricked it to such an extent that i could access windows. had to format my sytem. not impressed, i have not had trouble manually overclocking the i7 930 but this is my 1st rig and i cant seem to overclock my graphics card.
 
ok should i delete smart doctor before i do this? also this will work with an asus card right? ive not had much luck with the overclocking function in catalyst control centre either
 
MSI Afterburner might not work, it will do no damage to give it a try though. Asus are non-reference boards and can use different configs of voltage controllers. Afterburner will not adjust voltage on my Asus 4890 but then I have no problems with Smart Doctor. I can give you a link to version 5.59 if you need it.
 
As said it depends, if its a standard card then use afterburner, its far far better. If its one of the Asus custom designs you have little choice.

Said this before, Asus have a really fancy piece of nice software for overclocking their "matrix" range of cards, and use smart doctor for everything else. All that needs adding is listing another voltage controller and enabling all Asus cards in the FAR better software, but they won't, its ludicrous.

Smart doctor might be the single worst piece of software I've used from any gpu making company, and there have been some really bad ones over the years.

It would have looked data 10 years ago, its buggy as hell, its incredibly slow to load and insists on another piece of software, also slow to load, to be installed to work correctly, they all take ages to load and even take long just to open from system tray or anywhere else.
 
You don't have to have the other piece of software installed, it just nags you at startup if you don't. Runs perfectly stable on my rig, Win7 x64, allows me to overclock my card. Haven't found any other software that will allow me to change the voltage on my card.
 
ah smart doctor, the cause of a horinzontal black bar appearing in games after a while. Was close to RMA'ing the card! (6800GE)

Last ditch effort I uninstalled it and no more black bar.

So yeh Asus don't spend megabucks on its' development
 
3t3P said:
ah smart doctor, the cause of a horinzontal black bar appearing in games after a while. Was close to RMA'ing the card! (6800GE)

Last ditch effort I uninstalled it and no more black bar.

So yeh Asus don't spend megabucks on its' development
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What version of SmartDoctor was that with?

I'm not denying that you may have had problems with one release of this software, hell I had a problem with one of the 5.4x releases, but other than that the software has run flawlessly for me. Also I don't read that many complaints anywhere about this software, and I keep a check on the Asus support forums.

I'll be honest and admit that I'd rather be able to use something like ATI Tray Tools for my overclocking but I can't as it doesn't work properly with the Asus cards due to their non-reference VRC design.
 
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