I officially have the WORST x1900xtx card on the market [Archive]

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Zatrix

09-13-06, 03:06 PM

I understand why dell underclocked my card to 500/600 speeds now. BECAUSE IT CANT go higher at all!! With ati tool i simply tested and put it at 550 core and 650 memory and it artifacted SOOO BAD that my comp froze..... did it a few times same exact. The highest i could get it was 524 core and like 613 memory........

Sux for me i guess

posrx7

09-13-06, 03:25 PM

Man read through the links in this thread

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=440151

I seriously doubt you're actually increasing the voltage from 1.10 volts or whatever the default is. 1.425 or so is stock 3d volts. If you don't increase the volts, you won't be able to get it to clock to "stock".

Rattle

09-13-06, 03:33 PM

Zatrix

09-13-06, 03:45 PM

lol

you started a thread about this already and you get all the answers you need then you start another thread and frankly you obviously DO NOT LISTEN

do yourself a favor

remove ATI tool

open up the OVERDRIVE tab

leave it open

launch a game

PLAY

tab out

look at overdrive

notice the clock speeds

650/775=3d

500/600=2d

you'll see it kick back down

if you dont even understand the basic function of the card you shouldnt be messing with ATITOOL, you can get into trouble.

I did EXACTLY as you said and....

Catalyst overdrive in games is now at 689 core and 774 memory.... and when i alt tab out, it goes down to 500/600

I didn't touch the volts at all. Did the overdrive do it for me? I let it run an automated thing to figure at the correct speeds.

This seems to be so much better than ati tool HOWEVER i cant change the fan speeds so i still leave ati tool open for that.

Is leaving ati tool open for fan speeds while keeping catalyst overdrive working a bad idea?

and do i need to keep the catalyst overdrive tab in my taskbar or can i close that and just leave the icon of catalyst where all my other icons are?

Rattle

09-13-06, 03:52 PM

u dont have to unlock overdrive unless you wanna max out clocks in it.

its not going to harm anything having atitool installed and use it for fanspeed if overdrive is locked or unlocked, just make sure you dont kill the 2d/3d clock switch and you'll be fine.

I run my x1900xt maxed in overdrive most the time cuz ATITOOL is a PITA for oc, but nice for fan control. The only thing I hate about x1900's

The icon doesnt matter, overdrive is at driver level its not like atitool where you have to run it seperatly.

Glad you figured it out :)

posrx7

09-13-06, 03:56 PM

I didn't touch the volts at all. Did the overdrive do it for me?

Yes

Zatrix

09-13-06, 04:19 PM

Ok hopefully this is the last post i need to make about this.

MY SETUP

I have ati tool start automactially when the comp starts. It sets the fan speed to 75% (i dont mind the noise i rather a noisy card then a burnt card) and I guess it loads the default profile or whatever? 500/600

I also have catalyst control start up with ati poller and the such. I ran overdrive mode just now and it found the highest speeds for me i assume. It says 689/774.

When i enter a game and i alt tab out and view the overdrive tab it says those speeds for a second or so and then it reverts back to 500/600 as it should correct?

If all the above info is correct can someone just verify that and then im done =D

techicially i didn't overclock the card AT ALL correct? I just made it run at its oringal speeds right?

x1900xtx is suppose to run at 650/775 anyway right?

thnx

Rattle

09-13-06, 04:30 PM

you ocd the core 39mhz top out the ram they will run 690/800 or just 689/792 is what mine says

Zatrix

09-13-06, 04:36 PM

you ocd the core 39mhz top out the ram they will run 690/800 or just 689/792 is what mine says

what do u mean?

i just ran the overdrive utility and it told me 689/774. i didn't manually configure it

Rattle

09-13-06, 07:21 PM

you dont have to run the utlity just move the slides