Asus EAH 6850 DirectCU

Loxa · 24 Jan 2013 at 02:52

Hey, im just wondering if you could help me OC my GPU and if it would give me and worthwhile noticeable difference

Out of the box it has a 790Mhz OC

Loxa · 24 Jan 2013 at 14:35

I uninstalled AMD CCC to install the latest version but half way through the uninstall my screeen went black and has been like this ever since.. I tryed rebooting but all it said is "DVI-0 Power Saving Mode"

Loxa · 24 Jan 2013 at 15:20

Thrust4Money said:
I uninstalled AMD CCC to install the latest version but half way through the uninstall my screeen went black and has been like this ever since.. I tryed rebooting but all it said is "DVI-0 Power Saving Mode"

Had this same problem when i first got my bundle from OCUK and i fixed it by removing the CMOS Battery, so i did this again and it fixed my problem (installed new amd ccc driver). Loaded my OC profile back up and it seems fine but im guessing uninstalling GPU drivers with a OC is not good?

Loxa · 24 Jan 2013 at 15:38

8 Pack said:
Well that shows for me an element of your overclock is out.

Oh god, anyway i can pin point the problem?

Loxa · 24 Jan 2013 at 15:53

8 Pack said:
Is the system stable now??? what driver did you update to??? Often this kind of event can be memory related but we will see.

Yeah i have no problems with the system at all playing games etc, 13.1 i updated to.

Only time i had this problem was when i first got the bundle and now when i uninstalled AMD CCC

Loxa · 24 Jan 2013 at 15:56

8 Pack said:
Did you remove graphics OC before installing and uninstalling drivers. This can be an issue.

The GPU OC came out of the box, i have done nothing to it myself

Loxa · 24 Jan 2013 at 17:04

8 Pack said:
This maywell be a driver issue. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers at stock speeds.

The GPU drivers? how do i do it at stock speeds when the GPU is OC'ed already

Quote from the Asus website about the GPU

"Factory overclocked to perform at 790MHz, higher than stock performance, resulting in higher frame rates in games."

Loxa · 24 Jan 2013 at 17:39

8 Pack said:
Dont worry about the GPU clock. I am looking more here at overall system stability. The GPU for me is not the issue here. Reset the CPU to stock and try changing drivers etc etc. The card is stable it works in games etc.....

Same problem at stock

Loxa · 24 Jan 2013 at 17:58

Had to remove CMOS battery again to get it to show something on the monitor (system boots but just with a black screen otherwise), installed 12.10 drivers as 13.1 gave me less FPS but not that this makes a difference if something is wrong with my ram

Loxa · 26 Jan 2013 at 12:45

I ran a Memtest86+ for 11 hours and 30 minutes which resulted in 11 passes and no errors, on my memory i noticed the timings are 11-11-11-28 2 which the OCUK guy told me to set but the normal timings of the ram at stock are 10-10-10-32. Could that be causing a problem?

(There is a XMP 1.3 profile 1: 10-10-10-32 in my bios but not being use)

Loxa · 27 Jan 2013 at 15:52

8 Pack said:
This is a strange one. I dont think the timings which are stable are causing this. Once you get the drivers installed is everything stable again???

Yeah my system is fine, ive played DayZ/Blackops 2 and more games with no issue at all (temps around 56c). Only time it ever affected me was when i uninstalled the gpu driver

Is it possible for me to use the stock timings on my memory or will it make the overclock unstable?

Loxa · 27 Jan 2013 at 20:30

8 Pack said:
Try them!!!

You can easily revert back.

Ok, i have set my timings to 10-10-10-32 but im wondering if 2 is correct for cn (command rate)?

As i only know cn as 2 from being told that with that old timings

Loxa · 28 Jan 2013 at 16:05

Seems fine on the stock timings.

Loxa · 28 Jan 2013 at 20:16

8 Pack said:
2 is the correct CR for those DIMMS.

Ok thanks, is overclocking my memory a worthy adventure? As i have my CPU overclock at 4.4 (what im trying to say is will overclocking my memory increase overall performance)

Loxa · 28 Jan 2013 at 20:28

8 Pack said:
Yes both overclocking memory and tuning the timings improves performance and efficientcy. I an not sure those dimms will clock too well though. Try 10-11-11 at 2133 first 1.65v.

Ok, thanks for all the help 8pack. You helped me a lot of the last couple of weeks (and i know i ask a lot of dumb questions)

Loxa · 28 Jan 2013 at 21:19

After saving the changes and exiting my system would start up then reboot every few seconds, so i had to reset cmos in order to fix it. Is pressing the clr cmos button on my motherboard i/o the same as removing the cmos battery? Because its a lot of hassle having to remove the battery everytime

Loxa · 28 Jan 2013 at 23:06

8 Pack said:
Yes its the same. Those dimms dont look great for clocking.

Ok, ahhh its np im happy at stock

Loxa · 31 Jan 2013 at 01:13

Ran a full run through on Unigine (Heaven DX11 Benchmark) and this is my results, just wondering what you think. Is my user defined fan settings ok? Temp seems abit high or will it not reach that in games

http://i48.tinypic.com/2m7ja4z.png

http://i49.tinypic.com/2s0obif.png

*Temps while playin DayZ are around 73c, fan kicks in pretty loud around 70c (50%) but when i tab out it drops to 60c and the fan drops down. Is it bad for the fan to be constantly changing speed?

Loxa · 31 Jan 2013 at 16:44

Adjusted the fan speed at 70c to 60% and after about 20seconds of Unigine it locked up and showed a rainbow pattern all over the screen. Not sure why changing the fan speed would cause this, on the settings before it was fine

Loxa · 1 Feb 2013 at 13:11

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: FFFFFA8006CAD010
BCP2: FFFFF88004608DB8
BCP3: FFFFFFFFC00000B5
BCP4: 000000000000000A
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1

Got this when i started my PC up this morning, really strange how im having problems but in games is was fine. I have set my GPU back to default for now as this is definitely not stable