Download the Tom's Hardware App from the App Store
The reference for current tech news
Yes No
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Overclocking > Graphics Cards > Faster clock speeds with AMD Catalyst Overdrive?

Faster clock speeds with AMD Catalyst Overdrive?

Forum Overclocking : Graphics Cards Faster clock speeds with AMD Catalyst Overdrive?

Related Content
You have searched for "Faster clock speeds with AMD Catalyst Overdrive?" . You might be interested in the following threads:

See more for "Faster clock speeds with AMD Catalyst Overdrive?"

Can't find your answer?
Ask!

General Discussion

|

CPUs

|

Motherboards

|

Graphics Cards

|

Memory

|

Chipsets & Bios

|

Heatsinks & Air Cooling

|

Water Cooling

|

Intel

|

AMD

Word :    Username :           
 
Bradhp   01-15-2012 at 06:10:41 PM

I have an MSI Twin Frozr II HD 6950 2GB. Unlocked shaders and overclocked to 900/1375 using MSI Afterburner. Everything was great and had no issues, until I tried to play Skyrim. Skrim crashes every single time within minutes while Afterburner is running. When I completely close it down Skyrim runs fine and I can play for hours.

So right now I'm using Catalyst Overdrive for my overclocking, but it only gives me a max of 840/1325. Not a huge difference, but I'd like to get back to the speeds I had before. Is there any way to unlock a higher clock settings in Overdrive?

Message quoted 1 times
------------------------------ Cooler Master HAF 912/ ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3/ i5 2500K/ MSI Twin Frozr II OC HD 6950 2GB/ 8GB Corsair Vengeance/ Xigmatek Loki
 Reply to Bradhp
Register or log in to remove.
jdwii   01-15-2012 at 06:57:13 PM

Bradhp wrote :

I have an MSI Twin Frozr II HD 6950 2GB. Unlocked shaders and overclocked to 900/1375 using MSI Afterburner. Everything was great and had no issues, until I tried to play Skyrim. Skrim crashes every single time within minutes while Afterburner is running. When I completely close it down Skyrim runs fine and I can play for hours.

So right now I'm using Catalyst Overdrive for my overclocking, but it only gives me a max of 840/1325. Not a huge difference, but I'd like to get back to the speeds I had before. Is there any way to unlock a higher clock settings in Overdrive?






Not that i know of, And Afterburner was crashing probably because of a high overclock.

Reply to jdwii
omgitzfatal   01-15-2012 at 07:24:47 PM

Well obviously when you close MSI AB you loose your overclock, So I would hazard a guess that your game is crashing because the overclock isn't stable...

Increase the voltage or decrease the overclock.

------------------------------ Core i7 3930K @ 4.6Ghz - 8GB 1866Mhz 7-9-7-24-1T - Gigabyte X79-UD3 - 1000W XFX Pro Platinum - Modded ATCS 840 - Custom Water - Corsair Force 3 120GB
 Reply to omgitzfatal
Bradhp   01-15-2012 at 07:36:34 PM

I don't think it was the speed. If I have Afterburner running with stock speeds it still crashes Skyrim.

------------------------------ Cooler Master HAF 912/ ASRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3/ i5 2500K/ MSI Twin Frozr II OC HD 6950 2GB/ 8GB Corsair Vengeance/ Xigmatek Loki
 Reply to Bradhp
cygnus x-1   01-15-2012 at 08:41:53 PM

Did you set back to default in CCC and disable overdrive? If you do that, Afterburner should be stable in games with the right overclock settings. I use Afterburner in all games with a hiccup.

Reply to cygnus x-1
Register or log in to remove.
Ask the community Add a reply
See all topics related to "Faster clock speeds with AMD Catalyst Overdrive?"
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Overclocking > Graphics Cards > Faster clock speeds with AMD Catalyst Overdrive?
Go to:

There are 799 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 1.093 seconds
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Latest best answer
Keyboard Num Lock turns on/off during startup and shut down
By PhilFrisbie, 15 days ago:

I think you are just noticing the normal Windows behavior. . .

They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
How do I win badges?
Top experts
Become an expert The rank
Partners