5850 Overclock wont stick

[mart280]

Hi guys, I took delivery of my HIS 5850 yesterday from OC and it appears to clock really well, I currently have the core at 850 and the mem at 1200, I dont know if I Can alter the voltages I havent tried yet, I use AMD GPU clock tool to set the clocks and save them in MSI afterburner, but it doesent seem to matter what I check in MSI such as apply oc at startup and have the oc as a profile on boot up the default clocks are always loaded when I restart windows 7 and not my overclock, is there a utilitie or tool that will make my oc stick on boot up ?

 

[RavenXXX2]

Forget clock tool and just use MSI, follow instruction below.

go to C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner, open MSIafterburner CFG file with notepad, look for EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 0, change the 0 to 1, restart afterburner, set you clocks and save to a profile, save your default clocks to a profile as well.

 

[IKMS]

Forget clock tool and just use MSI, follow instruction below.

go to C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner, open MSIafterburner CFG file with notepad, look for EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 0, change the 0 to 1, restart afterburner, set you clocks and save to a profile, save your default clocks to a profile as well.

I'm sure that will work.

 

[mart280]

Thanks very much that worked, I may be back with some more questions in a bit though

 

[cainer]

I may be back with some more questions in a bit though

i can answer those for you now as im psychic

1, yes
2, increase volts to 1.3
3, hmm.. not on a first date :/

 

[Greebo]

i can answer those for you now as im psychic

1, yes
2, increase volts to 1.3
3, hmm.. not on a first date :/

slightly wrong, the answers are as follows:

1, yes, it does technically invalidate your warranty overvolting but how will they know?
2, most do 1000, you may get 1030+ if you go to 1.3v
3, No, you did right buying a 5850 and not waiting for the gtx465 so don't listen to the Nvidia fanbois

 

[RavenXXX2]

4. if your card has no volt ccntrol, you could stuffed.

 

[mart280]

Lol...thanks for the help, I am not sure about overvolt control, it is a HIS http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-004-HS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

I am happy with my current oc for the time being, but no doubt will find out if I can over volt it sooner or later.