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clocking my X1800, what do i use?

locutus12

locutus12

locutus12

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it hates ATI tool (tried it and the fury ball exploded after a 4mhz GPU clock, graphical errors abound)

it doesnt like tray tools,

what else can i use?


also what driver set would you recommend? currently on 6.2.

p.s. i have a powercolour X1800XT 512mb crossfire master.
 
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locutus12 said:
it hates ATI tool (tried it and the fury ball exploded after a 4mhz GPU clock, graphical errors abound)

it doesnt like tray tools,

what else can i use?


also what driver set would you recommend? currently on 6.2.
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What gfx card have you got?

Try the latest 6.4 drivers and you can also try ati tray tools:)
 
Locutus I feel your pain :)

I've been playing around with my X1800-XT. Trying out all sorts of stuff to O/C it. ATi TT doesn't support clocking the X1xx range. ATi tool was a bit hit and miss, I thought I had successfully clocked the card. But running Overclocker.exe showed I'd only managed to O/C the 2D clock.

I've finally settled on Catalyst 6.4 and CCC, using the Overdrive tab to up my 3D clocks to 680/790. I used to have a 9700 Pro when CCC first appeared and didn't like it, at first writing it off as bloatware. At the moment it seems to be all I can use to O/C the card with any kind of success. So I'm giving it a chance, though I'm still not totally convinced.
 
EAF92_Brigstock said:
But running Overclocker.exe showed I'd only managed to O/C the 2D clock.
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I'm sure you'll find that the clocks in overclocker.exe stay the same in 2d and 3d apps so if the clock speeds are showing high in 2d then it will be the same when in 3d apps.
You only change the clock speeds in the 2d menu in overclocker.exe and will work at those speeds in 3d and is the only tool you can use to take your clocks past 680/700(?) that it allows for in CCC.
 
I was running a set of Omega drivers and ATiTool. Set the clock Via ATiTool to 680/790 and then checked the clock via Overclock.exe. It showed 2d at the above speed but 3d at the standard 625/750 -/+ 1 or 2. I then ran a 3D app to test, alt tabbed out and it was still the same.
I've tried the same with CCC but the 2d/3d buttons are greyed out, which isn't telling me much. I like the overclock.exe prog, it's a shame it's not more functional for X1xx cards.
As I said above, I'm still not convinced with CCC and I'm still trying other stuff. I only found out about the ATi service stuff yesterday, which is why things have been so hit and miss so far no doubt
ATi certainly haven't made it easy to clock this series.
 
Right after untold messing I have got my card overclocked.
Using ATi Tool, overclocker.exe and no CCC
The step by Step process:
  1. Installed Omega 6.3 driver suite.
  2. Disabled the 2 ATi services, ATi Smart and ATi Hotkey.
  3. Rebooted ( Overdrive tab is no longer available )
  4. Installed ATi Tool (0.0.25 beta10).
  5. Set clock speed 675/783 with Overclock.exe, I entered 680/790 and OC.exe set it to 675/783 (using a divider setting?)
  6. Ran ATiTool and set voltage to 1.4 and set up a profile to bootup with.

I ran ATi Tool 3D for 5 hours no artifacts, ran 3Dmark05 and picked up 800 points. Now @10049

The turning point was disabling the overdrive services, this was crucial to my overclock. I wish I had found out about this at the beginning
 
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EAF92_Brigstock said:
Right after untold messing I have got my card overclocked.
Using ATi Tool, overclocker.exe and no CCC
The step by Step process:
  1. Installed Omega 6.3 driver suite.
  2. Disabled the 2 ATi services, ATi Smart and ATi Hotkey.
  3. Rebooted ( Overdrive tab is no longer available )
  4. Installed ATi Tool (0.0.25 beta10).
  5. Set clock speed 675/783 with Overclock.exe, I entered 680/790 and OC.exe set it to 675/783 (using a divider setting?)
  6. Ran ATiTool and set voltage to 1.4 and set up a profile to bootup with.

I ran ATi Tool 3D for 5 hours no artifacts, ran 3Dmark05 and picked up 800 points. Now @10049

The turning point was disabling the overdrive services, this was crucial to my overclock. I wish I had found out about this at the beginning
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thats all very good but without the use of ATI tools artifact scanning and "find max core/mem" theres no way to tell if your card can handle this, simply wacking the speeds up there and playing a game isnt enough, you could be artifacting and not know it and then one day... *pop* :(
 
locutus12 said:
thats all very good but without the use of ATI tools artifact scanning and "find max core/mem" theres no way to tell if your card can handle this, simply wacking the speeds up there and playing a game isnt enough, you could be artifacting and not know it and then one day... *pop* :(
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Forgot to mention I had already used ATi Tool to find my max core/mem. The problem I was having was getting the clock to stick. Also I have a mate who (rightly or wrongly) used ATi Tool "find max core/mem" to find his max clock on an Nvidia 6800GT and successfully cooked it to death.

I prefer to increase clocks in small increments and then scan, it's slow work but safer on the hardware IMO.

OV3RCLOCK3R..yep, just checked the version I have, it is infact beta 14. I was probably trying beta 10 earlier in my ATi overclocking woes
 
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