Overclocked i7 920 but not seeing gains.

For crossfire cards install the application profiles!

You know where to find it right?

Where you get the ccc suite from on the AMD website, there will be another download called: ATI Catalyst Application Profiles

Install those!

But verify if crossfire is on using GPUZ
 
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According to GPU-Z ATI Cross fire is enabled.

I just installed the ATI Catalyst Application Profiles. Do I need to do anything else to activate those or do they kick in automatically depending on the game ?

Thanks for all this BTW .
 
Honestly dude, get Metro 2033, thats the most demanding game in the market at the moment. That will test your pc to the max.

Also play BFBC2 ofline and your see there is no lagg at all. Its all becuase its a network/internet/multiplayer game, thats all.

I get lagg to its all dependant on different servers, other peoples, ping Punk Buster etc etc etc...

Is your 3.7ghz overclock stable by the way? Can it do 5-8 hours on prime 95?
 
>You have the catalyst control center installed right?

Yeah I have the 10.5's installed though . I didnt see anything good about the 10.10's

>Is your 3.7ghz overclock stable by the way? Can it do 5-8 hours on prime 95?

Seems to be . I didnt run Prime but its been running away for the last week without any problems and I was gaming last night for a few hours without any issues . CPU temps were a bit high tho , topped 90 degrees C .
 
If cpu temps are hitting 90c you might want to get a decent cooler and i would suggest the Thermaltake Frio(Akasa Venom, Titan Fenrir, Gelid Tranquillo nice too for their prices) which is on this week only as it's one of the best air coolers.Might be nice to get some MX-3 paste too.

Also i use a 4ghz profile and to be honest i can not see any difference really.....i guess it would be better with a dual card setup and a 120hz monitor.
 
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msaunders said:
>You have the catalyst control center installed right?

Yeah I have the 10.5's installed though . I didnt see anything good about the 10.10's

>Is your 3.7ghz overclock stable by the way? Can it do 5-8 hours on prime 95?

Seems to be . I didnt run Prime but its been running away for the last week without any problems and I was gaming last night for a few hours without any issues . CPU temps were a bit high tho , topped 90 degrees C .
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As you wish driver wise.

But if it was me, I would always run the latest drivers. at least try them. If it brakes something so fundamentally, then revert back.

In the 4 years Iv been with an ATI card, Iv only ever had to go one back a driver once, and that was with 10.6. 10.6 driver with my 3870x2 made the screen flicker black in BFBC2, I could see the green mcoms I could hear everyone, but the rest of the envronment was just black!

So I went back to 10.5, and then 10.7 etc etc etc....

The 10.10 have a hell of allot of performance optimizations! Have you seen the driver notes?

Look here at the optimizations: http://www.overclockersclub.com/news/27302/


No doubt your going to be wondering what to do in Novemeber when the new drivers coe out and they update the application profiles. Just unistall the profiles, and install the new ones, no need to have one installed to install the other etc etc etc....

As with temps... I dont know much about i7 to tell you if 90c is ok or not.

Also I personally would run prime 95 for a good 5-8 hours.

Before when I was inexperinced I thight I had a stable 3.6 overclock which was fine for hours at a time playing BFBC2. Untill one day, STOP, crash and blue screen :eek:!

I imidiatly realized my overclock wasnt stable so I downloaded prime 95, and low and behold I wasnt passing it. So I went about uppoing voltage retesting etc etc etc, I ended up with a higher overclock, which is rock solid stable.

(Touch wood) Well it hasnt crash on me yet, in the three months its been active.
 
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That sounds toasty for an i7 at 'only' 3.7 GHz!! What cooler do you have? What voltage are you supplying to achieve that OC?
 
Those temps are way to high if under load of prime/linx/ibt so under load of bfbc there even worse.
You need to sort out whats causing the high temps first.
It could be a bad seated cooler or to much/little thermal paste.
It also could be that volts are way to high.

I would say to you run the pc at stock settings and see what temps are like.If there much lower while under load and your still getting the slowdowns try doing a ping test to rule that out.

I see your in Ireland so to run a pingtest do this,
Hit the windows start box and type cmd.Then click on the black box.Type this without the commas "ping -n 300 www.heanet.ie" and hit return.
Post back you results of packet loss percentage and min/max round trip time.
 
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The cooler is a Tuniq Tower 120 . The voltage was set to auto . I will need to check this .The slowdowns were happening before I overclocked the CPU.
 
Yeah, but if something isn't right with your cooler mounting (which seems to be a possibility) it may have been overheating and throttling even at stock speed in a demanding section of a game. Could be the cause of your problems?
 
Liampope said:
Yeah, but if something isn't right with your cooler mounting (which seems to be a possibility) it may have been overheating and throttling even at stock speed in a demanding section of a game. Could be the cause of your problems?
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Agreed.

You need to monitor temps and voltages using monitoring tools.

Thats something that prime 95 can help with, as you can overclock nice and gradually.
 
Getting around 67c on stock speeds (ingame) and around 1.19volts
Tried latest 10.10c Cats and while gameplay is smooth , I am getting a lot of black screen flashes and abnormalities ............ sigh .
 
msaunders said:
Yeah I cant see any xfire options in catalyst control center.
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You won't with a 5970, its crossfire on a stick, two 5870 cypress chips clocked down to 5850 speeds. There is no crossfire options/settings for dual amd gpu's. True crossfire is two seperate graphics cards. Make sure catalyst control centre is set to factory default and application managed, and catalyst AI is set to standard. I use a 5970, best gaming performance for me is CCC 10.4 and crossfire profiles 10.10. You will have to test which driver set works best for your system, 10.4's work best for me but might not for you?.
 
ScottiB said:
The problem you have is that the i7 920, even at stock, is fast enough for pretty much every game on the market so overclocking it won't have much, if any impact on frame rates
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This statement from earlier in the thread is utter tosh.

Also, unless you have a decent aftermarket cooler you will get toasty temps once you go past about 3.4Ghz or so.
 
Thanks guys . I have tried the 10.10c , 10.10 and 10.9a . The 10.9a seem a bit better but I still get this occasional sequence of really fast black screen flickers during gameplay of MOH. Lasts maybe 1 second then is fine but was definitely not there before on the 10.5's

TBH I have the CPU back to stock speeds and I have noticed zero difference in game speeds so IMO clocking the CPU to 3.7 did nothing to improve gameplay in my setup. It might work better in dual card setups.
 
Just an update on my temps . I had been using the Asus AI suite to read my CPU temps. I suspected this was wrong so I installed HWMonitor and my temps are 40 idle and 52 fully loaded so clocked at 3.7Ghz my temps were reaching 80c and not 90c. I am assuming the Asus AI Suite is out by 10c ( I read about this before somewhere)

Martin
 
I have a similiar gaming rig set up and I also get a occasional black flash in the new MOH but that one only and I put it down to a driver issue :). The rest of my games run fine 10.10 + 10.10c hotfix and crossfire apps @ max game settings. The OC does make a difference but you'll only notice it if you test with FAPS running at the same time. I previously had a Xfire 5870 setup but switched to the 5970 because the secondary GPU in Xfired 5870 was idling for most of the time :) Most people don't realise it because they can't really do a real time monitor of it with a 1 screen setup.

the 5970 is a 2 x GPU's on 1 PCB, so it's XFire by default so ignore all the twaddle of enabling Xfire it's a smoke screen and not relevant at all. As rightly stated, it's been down clocked to 5850 speeds but purely because of a heat thing, especially with a stock/reference design like the Sapphire. Get yourself a decent aftermarket cooler like the one below and crank it back up! I have not felt the need to do this yet because it eats all I can throw at it anyway!

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Idle temps 38 - 40 Load after 3 hours of MOH 65

BTW 80c is still a bit toasty for a 3.6ghz OC probably down to your auto voltage :) Spend a little time OCing it properly and those temps should fall further :)
 
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