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    activate ati overdrive

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by tyruchi, Jun 5, 2011.

  1. tyruchi

    tyruchi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,
    I have 11.5a driver. When I go to the overdrive window, all options are grey. I remember a key in the register to change in order to activate this, but i can't find in the forum the topic about that. Can you help me pls?
     
    tyruchi, Jun 5, 2011
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  2. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

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    The key is here:

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    Yiddo, Jun 5, 2011
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  3. CrappyAlloy

    CrappyAlloy Notebook Evangelist

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    OT but Dallers can you really get your Core and Memory clocks that high at the same time??
     
    CrappyAlloy, Jun 5, 2011
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    Look again dude thats a 5870 on a Dell desktop :p
     
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  5. CrappyAlloy

    CrappyAlloy Notebook Evangelist

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    Ahaha my bad :eek:
     
    CrappyAlloy, Jun 5, 2011
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    Wish I could hit that though :( badly need more voltage!
     
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  7. PhnX

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    I kinda skipped out on the whole Overdrive thing. Is it better / more stable than the ATI GPU Clock Tool? You need a modded vBIOS to enable the option, correct?
     
    PhnX, Jun 5, 2011
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    You need Chastity's vBios. There's no difference if you OC via the clock tool or OD. It's just nice to have the option directly in CCC.
     
    tijo, Jun 5, 2011
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  9. mite_jan

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    you don't need to change the bios nor you need the ati overdrive (i am not going to explain 1000 times why)

    use amd gpu tool before starting the game and set on default when finishing the game and that's it
     
    mite_jan, Jun 5, 2011
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    Another person with sour grapes over PowerPlay. :D

    I like having it automated for myself, thus why I use OverDrive.
     
    Chastity, Jun 5, 2011
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  11. tyruchi

    tyruchi Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm a stupid -.- thanks
     
    tyruchi, Jun 5, 2011
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    No. ATI are stupid thinking that an imaginary key and little note of warning that no one read's will prevent us RMA'ing the laptop when we melt it :D
     
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  13. mite_jan

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    yeah and you like having the clock always on 1100 don't ya :)
    sorry but i don't like my memory clock always to be overclocked by 10 % even when not playing games
     
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    but it doesn't do anything for the battery consumption since the voltage pull is the same no matter what memory clock setting you use.
     
    Chastity, Jun 5, 2011
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  15. @tilla

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    Overdrive is working as it should. Also downclocking.
    Maybe some cards do it, some not.

    My idle power draw (AC-side -> BatteryBar) is about 18-20 watts.
     
    @tilla, Jun 6, 2011
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