6950 idle clocks

[Shayper]

Yet another quick question

Feel like a complete noob asking this, but how do you make the 6950 drop back to idle clocks when you have overclocked it? I'm using MSI afterburner, and have enabled unofficial overclocking, currently sitting at 900/1450 constant.

Not really happy with the card sitting at 63 degrees at idle. And my room isn't warm. My i7 is sitting at 20 degrees idle for one thing

Cheers guys

 

[J.D]

Yet another quick question

Feel like a complete noob asking this, but how do you make the 6950 drop back to idle clocks when you have overclocked it? I'm using MSI afterburner, and have enabled unofficial overclocking, currently sitting at 900/1450 constant.

Not really happy with the card sitting at 63 degrees at idle. And my room isn't warm. My i7 is sitting at 20 degrees idle for one thing

Cheers guys

Restart your PC and the idle clocks of 250/150 (Single monitor) will return. Once you overclock they will not revert back. It's annoying but not a chore. When going to watch something you can go make a drink whilst the PC restarts .

 

[Steves1982]

You could try flashing to the 6970 and then you can overclock in CCC. That way it will idle most of the time but jump up when needed.

Or, does afterburner have automatic switching for 2d and 3d profiles? I'm at work so can't check but sure I have seen it in the menu somewhere, This might do the job.

 

[Shayper]

Restart your PC and the idle clocks of 250/150 (Single monitor) will return. Once you overclock they will not revert back. It's annoying but not a chore. When going to watch something you can go make a drink whilst the PC restarts .

Suppose I could do this, bit of a chore for me as k usually have about a million things running at once . Although it does only take 30 secs roughly to redraft with this crucial drive

 

[gareth170]

if i remember right pressing reset in AB should revert the clocks back

 

[J.D]

Suppose I could do this, bit of a chore for me as k usually have about a million things running at once . Although it does only take 30 secs roughly to redraft with this crucial drive

Hehe nice, I'm getting that with this sata II drive but it's a brand new install of Win7 and I've not got a lot installed to be fair .

if i remember right pressing reset in AB should revert the clocks back

That doesn't work for me. It just keeps the 3D clocks on whatever Afterburner is set at.

There is a tedious method to bring down your clocks though. After you slide the "core" and "memory" speeds to the lowest and hit apply, close MSI Afterburner and then repeat until you are at extremely low clocks.

I was down to 100Mhz Core and 150Mhz memory or something near to. As I said, it will save you from restarting and for some insane reason, the profile does not save properly but I just restart my PC rather than go through that .