msi afterburner wtf?

[CJStorngHammer]

by the looks of it i am stable. but my scores from Unigene and metro 2033 bench marks are the same at 950/1400 as they are at 880/1250? I had this same issue when i had my 5870 and all i had to do was increase the voltages and it made a HUGE difference.

With that big of a difference in clock you should notice a difference in scores. If you don't, then that indicates that the card is probably not 100% stable. I saw the same with my 480. In the beginning the max voltage in afterburner was 1.125V, and at that voltage the card wouldn't go over 875, but than a later update raised it to 1.138V and than it went up to 910.

Also, What temps are you getting at that clock?

you mentioned the Metro benchmark score but do you notice any difference in the actual game? Do you get any crashes in game? If the card is unstable you might see periodic crashes when playing the actual game rather than running the benchmark.

 

[dugdiamond]

Your right dude, AMD cards don't run folding yet. I can't believe I forgot that. thx

they do, using R700 and R800. they are just pathetic at folding ATM, and are not worth the effort.

the 'month of may' is skint-month for me: car tax/MOT/insurance... inland revenue hits me

... etc. (every year)

it's the one month in the year that i am almost penniless (boo-hoo)

but anyways, next month i will be getting 2x 580s (hopefully - i might win a 560

), and selling my old friend, the hd5850 vapor-x, in preparation for my BULLDOZER build-from-scratch.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

With that big of a difference in clock you should notice a difference in scores. If you don't, then that indicates that the card is probably not 100% stable. I saw the same with my 480. In the beginning the max voltage in afterburner was 1.125V, and at that voltage the card wouldn't go over 875, but than a later update raised it to 1.138V and than it went up to 910.

Also, What temps are you getting at that clock?

you mentioned the Metro benchmark score but do you notice any difference in the actual game? Do you get any crashes in game? If the card is unstable you might see periodic crashes when playing the actual game rather than running the benchmark.

this is EXACTLY why i need access to voltages.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

alright... i just downloaded 2.2 beta 3 and it works.

 

[CJStorngHammer]

alright... i just downloaded 2.2 beta 3 and it works.

great. I was just looking for something else that would adjust voltage and I just got a million links for afterburner. lol

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

no matter what i do i can not get my scores up. i even overclocked to 975/1400 at 20% and 1.125v. all my tests ran fine, no crashing no nothing. I blame the drivers.

 

[CJStorngHammer]

no matter what i do i can not get my scores up. i even overclocked to 975/1400 at 20% and 1.125v. all my tests ran fine, no crashing no nothing. I blame the drivers.

what was the default voltage, and What are the temps like?

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

what was the default voltage, and What are the temps like?

default voltage is 1120v and max temp is in the low 60s under full load.

 

[CJStorngHammer]

default voltage is 1120v and max temp is in the low 60s under full load.

You might want to try turning the memory back down to default. If the memory is unstable at that frequency then even raising the core voltage wont help. I would suggest doing them one at a time. you might also want to try going up to 1.130V or even 1.135V if the temps are ok and afterburner will allow.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

temps are not an issue for me. my 6990 has a full cover block with a dual 120 rad cooling it.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

yea i just dropped the mem to stock and raised the core and still no improvement. i convinced that the clock change is not even applying. even if i did get a bad card a little increase should at the very least improve my FPS by 1. but when i OC its like nothing changed.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

by looking around on other review sites, i am not the only one. apparently the 6990 does not overclock for shit "YET." some of these review sites are reporting stable OCs at 1ghz and 1400mem with only a 4fps increase. they are all leaning towards it being because the drivers have yet to mature, which is what i am leaning too.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

It's about time manufacturers started adding proper bios suites for editing the fields so we don't have to rely on this software crap

 

[S_I_N]

another thing to consider and keep in mind is that maybe you have reached the sweet spot to where now its ur cpu bottle necking it from getting higher scores?? I saw that with my 560ti once I hit 1ghz I started getting diminishing returns on anything over that.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

another thing to consider and keep in mind is that maybe you have reached the sweet spot to where now its ur cpu bottle necking it from getting higher scores?? I saw that with my 560ti once I hit 1ghz I started getting diminishing returns on anything over that.

I have been considering that but did not want to believe it. I have defiantly seen some bottlenecking with my CPU lately. Gunna have to upgrade to a 1090t here soon.