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Wanting to upgrade - AMD GPU

Omaeka said:
CPU before GPU, then? Makes sense, I have heard that my 6850 can hold its own, whereas my CPU basically isn't even made for gaming :eek: which is kinda disappointing as Overclocker's could have just put an older cheaper proc into the rig and save everyone abit of money, while giving me a better gaming rig? :p



I'm gonna look into that now, will my 6850 when overclocked make any difference considering I have a pretty bad CPU for gaming?
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Actually you should download and use MSI Afterburner. Not only it's good for overclocking graphic card, but you can set it to display GPU temp, GPU usage while in game. If your GPU usage isn't even hitting 99% during demand game scenes, then overclocking the 6850 certainly won't make any difference to frame rate at that situation, as it is CPU bottleneck during those scenes.
 
Omaeka said:
So raising the fan control will override it into using the fans at a high rate regardless of whats happening? I don't mind the noise so long as it ain't gonna damage anything when my rig isn't using much.

Set it to 75% manual and the noise is TERRIFYING ME! Is this bad!? :eek:
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As you just found out, it's a constant when you manually set it.

It's easy enough to jump into CCC and change from auto to manual, or in AB, you can make custom fan profiles too.

It will sound like a vacume cleaner but it keeps your gpu safe, when you know where you stand regarding clocks, then you set fan speeds to suit.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Actually you should download and use MSI Afterburner. Not only it's good for overclocking graphic card, but you can set it to display GPU temp, GPU usage while in game. If your GPU usage isn't even hitting 99% during demand game scenes, then overclocking the 6850 certainly won't make any difference to frame rate at that situation, as it is CPU bottleneck during those scenes.
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Will give it a go, so MSI Afterburner can do all this that the CCC is doing? It can alter my hardware to act differently aswell as monitor?

tommybhoy said:
As you just found out, it's a constant when you manually set it.

It's easy enough to jump into CCC and change from auto to manual, or in AB, you can make custom fan profiles too.

It will sound like a vacume cleaner but it keeps your gpu safe, when you know where you stand regarding clocks, then you set fan speeds to suit.
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Even at 100% fan speed, can it cause any damage or inconvenience other than sounding like a Dyson?
 
If you left it on 100% 24/7 then yes, through time the fan bearing will grate and become even noisier and even break, but, the point was in relation to you oc'ing your gpu and breaking it due to not having enough cooling if you were to be overambitious with the clocks.

Generally you wan't to keep the core as much under 85c as possible in order to keep the lifespan of the gpu high.

Once you reach stable oc's then you would find out what kind of fan curve is needed that can be set within AB.
 
tommybhoy said:
If you left it on 100% 24/7 then yes, through time the fan bearing will grate and become even noisier and even break, but, the point was in relation to you oc'ing your gpu and breaking it due to not having enough cooling if you were to be overambitious with the clocks.

Generally you wan't to keep the core as much under 85c as possible in order to keep the lifespan of the gpu high.

Once you reach stable oc's then you would find out what kind of fan curve is needed that can be set within AB.
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I don't think I'd leave it at 100%, maybe create profiles to increase to 100% if need be during gaming?

Can MSI create profiles or only CCC?

EDIT: Sig's been owned twice in one day. :D
 
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AB can create gpu clocks with a fan temp curve profile.

CCC can have set clocks/manual fan that can be saved as profiles, with desktop shortcuts/game dependant profiles that will actually set clocks/fan speed and launch a game.
 
tommybhoy said:
AB can create gpu clocks with a fan temp curve profile.

CCC can have set clocks/manual fan that can be saved as profiles, with desktop shortcuts/game dependant profiles that will actually set clocks/fan speed and launch a game.
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Fan curve profile, as in it can detect when my GPU is being used (i.e in a game) and adjust the fans to accommodate?
 
Marine-RX179 said:
It's just MSI's own stress test program. Personally I don't really use it, as I use Heaven and actual games for testing stability of graphic card overclock.
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Makes sense :p what does 'Core Voltage' and 'Power Limit' do? Should I alter them? If so how much per time? I have no idea what I'm doing! :p
 
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