Can i over clock my card?

[Chris230291]

Alright guys and gals?
I was just wondering if i can make my graphics card perform any better? I have a sapphire Radeon HD 6870 OC edition, like this one...

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1037&pid=1312&psn=&lid=1&leg=0

However my box is different if that means anything?

From what i understand, any GPU over clocking is done in windows with software? The problem i have is i don't use windows. I have read about flashing cards and stuff but i'm a little lost on the subject.

I run OS X and enjoy playing the odd game here and there. However, most of the big boy games are ports of PC versions, and while my card appears to be more than capable of playing most games (in a windows environment), i struggle to run at full settings with the extra toll of the port on top (if that makes sense?)

Basically i need someone to briefly educate me on GPU over clocking and explain what options i have...If any!

Please don't say install a copy of windows XD

Chris.

 

[Recon-UK]

Answer: No, but people can teach you.


Do you wish for me to teach you?

 

[Chris230291]

Haha ok. It would be cool if you could XD

Cheers man,
Chris.

 

[Recon-UK]

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/micr...remium-64-bit-sp1-operating-system-single-oem

Press add to basket>enter bank details>happy consumer.

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm



OSX?

Sorry could not help it...


I will help you out, i just need to find some proper software for your OS

 

[Recon-UK]

You can give this a go, i have no experience using it or anything else for mac however, so results may be different...

http://www.geeks3d.com/20080707/amd-gpu-clock-tool-v098/

 

[jamesriley94]

That's not an OSX program...

Unless there is a Mac equivalent to afterburner, which I'm pretty sure there isn't, I don't think it's possible without flashing your BIOS - which you shouldn't ever really do unless you're having proper problems with the card and have to do it. If anything goes wrong in flashing the card, the card is dead.

The only way really is through windows. You may be able to install windows and run it on a virtual machine, however. Then hopefully the clocks would stand when switching back to OSX, assuming you leave the VM running? Although that's just speculation.

Other than that, you're pretty stuck really.

 

[Chris230291]

Yeah thats just for windows dude

Well the computer is a Hackintosh if that makes any difference?

The virtual machine runs within the parameters set by the host OS though? So over clocking in parallels (VM), if possible at all would not transfer back over to OS X.

Could running afterburner in a wine wrapper be a solution? Or is that just asking for problems?

It isn't the end of the world if i cant do this, but a little more "umpf" would be nice.

Thanks for the replies!
Chris.

 

[Recon-UK]

My bad, i google GPU OC tools for MAC, and it brought me to that, should have looked deeper at it, my most sincere apology

 

[Chris230291]

haha nah it's cool.

Edit: nevermind.