2900xt help

[Dougiebabe2003]

Is this normal?



I read somewhere that the 2900xt has two clock speeds... a 2d one and a 3d one..

When I ran the show 3d view of ATI tool then clocks didn't change.

I have only just installed ATI tool after downloading GPU-Z yesterday and seeing the lower the normal GPU & memory clock speeds.

Basicly is it running at full whack or is something wrong?

 

[badbob]

It kicks into high gear in 3D mode.

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

It kicks into high gear in 3D mode.

How can I test this?

Cheers, Doug.

 

[gareth170]

How can I test this?

Cheers, Doug.

run a game or 3d application.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Doe's it not kick into 3D clocks when you run the artifact tester in ATi Tool.

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

Doe's it not kick into 3D clocks when you run the artifact tester in ATi Tool.

Sorry it's taken so long to answer back, new install of Vista so been moving files.

When I run the 3d view in ATi tool the clocks in GPUZ don't change. ATI Tool also notes them at the slower 510 core and 511 mem speeds.

Could this just be Vista x64 being annoying?

 

[gareth170]

no it isn't vista64 fault... try EVEREST Ultimate Edition to see the clock in real-time .. or use RivaTuner monitor then run a game then see the clocks

 

[chaosophy]

check the options in ATi Tool as well. There are some options in there as to how 2d/3d clock switching should be handled when running ATi Tool.

the easiest for you at the moment, just to see the higher clocks, is to tell it to switch to 3d clocks as soon as you run AT. And iirc, another option for the auto clock switching to be suspended while AT runs.

 

[badbob]

I'm pretty sure you'll know if it's not switching to 3D clocks, for one thing it'll be slow, and the fan won't ramp up.

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

Hey guys,

Cheers for your replies.

I checked the options in Ati Tool, the only option that I could see about 2D/3D clocks is ticked. It says that it will switch to 3D clocks when starting Ati Tool but I don't think it is.

Everest shows the lower clocks (510 & 511mhz) and when I run the 3D view in ATI Tool Everest contiunes to show the lower clocks.

As to things running slowly, Crysis gets less than 30FPS on the following system:

2900XT
E6600 @ 3.2ghz
4GB RAM @ 920mhz

Also the fan doesn't often spin up, it will only spin up if I have been playing a game for hours and the whole system gets hot. Just running ATI Tool doesn't make it spin up.

Any suggestions?

 

[gareth170]

Hey guys,

Cheers for your replies.

I checked the options in Ati Tool, the only option that I could see about 2D/3D clocks is ticked. It says that it will switch to 3D clocks when starting Ati Tool but I don't think it is.

Everest shows the lower clocks (510 & 511mhz) and when I run the 3D view in ATI Tool Everest contiunes to show the lower clocks.

As to things running slowly, Crysis gets less than 30FPS on the following system:

2900XT
E6600 @ 3.2ghz
4GB RAM @ 920mhz

Also the fan doesn't often spin up, it will only spin up if I have been playing a game for hours and the whole system gets hot. Just running ATI Tool doesn't make it spin up.

Any suggestions?

forget ati tools... install RivaTuner and use the hardware monitor then run a game e.g crysis then play for about 5 minutes then exit the game then you should see the history of the clocks in the hardware monitor...

 

[Rackerz]

Rivatuner is your friend.

 

[mame]

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[Banjo]

Hey Dougiebabe2003,

Try Running 3DMark06, if you get a sub 10K score, then I'd assume that you've got a problem.
I wouldn't start to worry though, I've overclocked my 2900XT through Hex-editing it's BIOS, I think the "Default Clock" in GPU-Z show the 3D clocks, so my GPU-Z shows 850/925.

*Just checked my GPU-Z, shows my 3D clocks as "Current clocks"... still, wouldn't get worried yet.

Like I said, try running 3D Mark and post results

Banjo


Edit: Added screenshot & *

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

Just to let everyone know that it was ATI Tool not jumping the clocks upto 3D mode or what ever.

Installed Riva Tuner and ran Crysis. Quit after 5 mins and found that it had increased the clocks no problem. Even had a go at overclocking it & got a 3-4FPS increase on the crysis GPU benchmark Did find that it got quite hot doing that though...

Cheers to everyone for your help and for suggesting Riva Turner! Cannot belive I have gone this long without this program