ATI Overdrive vs MSI Afterburner OC'ing

[Jester8]

I just got the ati2dvag infinite loop bug :mad: and after a couple days my pc blue screened and would not post anymore so I had to reformat my drive. :rain: I installed 11.1 and I decided to play around with OC'ing my HIS HD5770 since I have nothing to lose anymore. :-/ I haven't OC'ed a gpu before so I just used the ATI Overdrive in CCC to up the clocks on my gpu to 925/1400mhz and it passed the gpu (2-3 minute) clock test. GPU-Z shows gpu max temp reached 60*c set to 70% fan speed. I will test these settings in game and see if they hold up.

Not sure what a 5770 can OC on stock voltages, but this OC seems decent :chair: if it holds up to gaming, which I'll test tonight. Seems everyone uses MSI Afterburner to OC gpus and I was wondering why? What makes it better than ATI Overdrive? Is MSI Afterburner for more advanced OCs like voltage changes? I just want a good OC without flashing the bios or changing voltages.

[bda1967]

Afterburner gives you voltage control which in turn allows you to reach higher overclocks from my experience. It also has more options like on screen display and the Kompressor utility which allows you to check stability and run benchmarks. ATI Overdrive is a good utility which will give you decent overclocking results too and the current versions have the Power Tune Control settings which can give you a little extra stability.

I normally just use Afterburner for overclocking but without voltage control for the 6900 series in that program, I've been using CCC with Power Control settings at +20 lately for my overclocking.

[Jester8]

Ok... I'm not messing with voltages so I guess I'll just stick with my OC in ATI Overdrive. :thup:

[funkgerm]

I prefer Afterburner because it gives you graphs. That way I can run a benchmark and monitor the max temperature and adjust the fan speed accordingly. I also feel like it's more stable than ATI Overdrive, but it might just be in my head.

EDIT: Also, that is a very good OC for stock voltages. I have the exact same card as you and I am unable to get the memory over 1340mhz without artifacting. 925mhz for core is also very good at stock volts. I have my 5770 set at 1.25v at 960/1340, with plenty of room to up the core voltage and clock some more. Temperature while gaming is around 55C at most.

[JLK03F150]

I use Afterburner because of being able to create a fan profile. Reference ATI fans sound like a hairdryer when ramped up & Afterburner automatically keeps my cards quiet and cool.

[bda1967]

I use Afterburner because of being able to create a fan profile.

Oh ya I forgot about that too.:attn:

[Jester8]

I prefer Afterburner because it gives you graphs. That way I can run a benchmark and monitor the max temperature and adjust the fan speed accordingly. I also feel like it's more stable than ATI Overdrive, but it might just be in my head.

EDIT: Also, that is a very good OC for stock voltages. I have the exact same card as you and I am unable to get the memory over 1340mhz without artifacting. 925mhz for core is also very good at stock volts. I have my 5770 set at 1.25v at 960/1340, with plenty of room to up the core voltage and clock some more. Temperature while gaming is around 55C at most.

My OC passed the quick stress test at 60*c max and 2 hours of BC2 at 58*c max according to gpu-z at 70% fan speed. Glad to hear I have a good OC for stock voltages on my vc. When I decide to fine tune everything I will get MSI Afterburner and get the most out of my 5770 since I still haven't hit a wall yet with stock voltages, but I feel I'm probably almost there. :D

Thanks to everyone for explaining the differences in the programs.