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MSI Afterburner 1.2.0 Available

i remmeber reading something in regards to the clock tool only working witht the drivers off the cd, i have the drivers off the site installed
 
muggs said:
i remmeber reading something in regards to the clock tool only working witht the drivers off the cd, i have the drivers off the site installed
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I have the drivers from ATI from the site and AMD GPU tool works fine.

You sure you've download the latest version of AMD GPU tool?
 
i have 9.8 wwhich is the latest however the one before 9.26 actually works

so doe s the overdrive test not wwork when using gpu tool?
 
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muggs said:
9.26 is fine, weird i could see all the ati overdrive options when using gpu tool, now i cant. is this normal?
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Don't know. They are all early drivers. All I can say is that with the 9.10 64 bit on windows 7 I have all the overdrive options and ati gpu tool works.

Have you clicked the padlock to unlock the overdrive options btw? ;)
 
lol i wasnt clear, i was meaning 0.9.6(9.6) version of gpu tool not ati drivers.

so gpu tool ver 0.9.26(9.26)works but wwhen i use the test in overdrive the coloured screen doesnt appear but the window saying testing does and thats it. i have to task manager close ccc.

never mind its ok now, i guess its best no o adjust clocks in gpu tool when you have the overdrive page open too
 
my temp has gone up by like ten degrees just by moving the clock to 800, i dont get it, volts are 1.087 is that high? could you tell me what stock volts are please?

ok so that is stock volts, well if my calculations are correct even raising the core clock by 1mhz to 776 in gpu tool causes the gpu to rise in temp from 37 idle to 53 idle. something is wrong with gpu tool maybe?
 
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muggs said:
my temp has gone up by like ten degrees just by moving the clock to 800, i dont get it, volts are 1.087 is that high? could you tell me what stock volts are please?

ok so that is stock volts, well if my calculations are correct even raising the core clock by 1mhz to 776 in gpu tool causes the gpu to rise in temp from 37 idle to 53 idle. something is wrong with gpu tool maybe?
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You have lots of strangeness going on there. at 1.25v and 950 core i idle at 39C and go up to 85C under load.:confused:
 
muggs said:
my temp has gone up by like ten degrees just by moving the clock to 800, i dont get it, volts are 1.087 is that high? could you tell me what stock volts are please?

ok so that is stock volts, well if my calculations are correct even raising the core clock by 1mhz to 776 in gpu tool causes the gpu to rise in temp from 37 idle to 53 idle. something is wrong with gpu tool maybe?
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WHen you use gpu clock tool you override ALL powerplay features, so thats your non idle temp vs idle temp, nothing to worry about.

Idle voltage is a touch under 1v, load a touch under 1.1v, you can whack the volts up to 1.35/45v depending on the card I believe. Changing clocks in CCC/MSI tool will keep powerplay settings in action so you'll still have lower idle clocks(or at least the previous msi afterburner version did), not sure if it overrides only 3d voltage, or keeps it there.
 
cheers greebndrunk for the info's. well i would love to keep powerplay in action,ccc clocks dont go high enough, msi tool does not change the clocks unfortunatley. bummer guess i will have to wait for a program shame because farcry2 was running much much better at 810/1150 everything maxed except AA(at 4) dx10 1920x1200. this is on my bro's pc im sorting for him 4gb ram q6600 at 3.4 ip35 pro hmmm i must put my spec in sig.
 
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There's a new 1.3.0 available.

Might be better off waiting for 1.4.0 though by the sound of it the hardware monitoring will no longer kill performance:

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Good news, I've finally received 5870 sample from MSI, so now I can see what else can I squeeze from this bit of hardware for Afterburner.
First, I now understand why some users claimed that there was some kind of stuttering in games when Afterburner's hardware monitor is active. AMD's own GPU usage and runtime clocks monitoring routine, provided by their new "shiny" ADL SDK is deadly, terribly SLOOOOOOOOOOW on 58xx hardware. Thanks AMD, as usual. I cannot even guess what can the driver do duing approximately 30ms (!!!!) on each call of this routine, that is DEADLY expensive for monitoring software and I'm pretty sure that it can be optimized up to 30x times, it shouldn't eat more than 1ms if implemented properly. So probably I'll replace AMD's monitoring implementation with my own one. Sadly, as usual with AMD software, take everything AMD provides, throw it away and write it yourself. Seriously, instead of attacking CUDA, PhysX and TWIMTBP the company should invest more softdev and devrel resources into their own APIs. Developers will keep chosing NV and prefer to work with NV APIs, if AMD's ones will stay in such terrible state.
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