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    AMD GPU Clock Tool

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by zaner123, May 30, 2010.

  1. zaner123

    zaner123 Notebook Geek

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    Which version of the AMD GPU Clock Tool should I download for use with the 5850 in my GX640?

    Thanks
     
    zaner123, May 30, 2010
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  2. lackofcheese

    lackofcheese Notebook Virtuoso

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    This one. Did you really need to make a new thread for this?
     
    lackofcheese, May 30, 2010
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  3. zaner123

    zaner123 Notebook Geek

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    I'm not sure that I needed to, but.. I figured it'd get the answer the fastest plus it will be easy for others to find it later.

    Thanks tho
     
    zaner123, May 30, 2010
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  4. zaner123

    zaner123 Notebook Geek

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    I am able to use this clock tool to downclock my speeds to 100/100 (GPU Core Clock/Memory Clock), and overclock to at least 700/1100.

    With speeds at 100/100 temps decrease to about 50C and battery life increases to about 3 hours.

    In order to use this to automatically set your clocks upon startup do this:

    1. Create a shortcut on the desktop.
    2. Use target "C:\Program Files (x86)\AMD GPU Clock Tool\AMDGPUClockTool.exe" -eng=400 -mem=400

    -Copy and paste that, including the quotation marks. Adjust the "400" and "400" to whatever you so choose. I'd recommend you first test the clocks to ensure that they are stable.
    3. Move that shortcut from the desktop to the "startup" folder. That is found under Start, All programs, Startup.
    4. You're done.
     
    zaner123, May 31, 2010
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  5. lackofcheese

    lackofcheese Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yep, that's what I told you to do alright ;)
    Nice work typing up that post anyway, though; it should make things more straightforward for others.
     
    lackofcheese, May 31, 2010
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  6. zaner123

    zaner123 Notebook Geek

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    Yes thanks Cheese!

    It still took me a while to figure out what you meant, so I figure some others might.. so I added in the info for the more newbie steps.
     
    zaner123, May 31, 2010
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  7. Ikara

    Ikara Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi guys,

    Have been reading many posts in the two last days and I first wanna thank you for all the information gathered thanks to you ;-)

    I found the short manipulation explained iin this thread pretty useful but I was wondering one thing:
    Once I start playing, if I want to quit my down-clocking setting and let PowerPlay get control of my clocking speed again how can I do it by using such a simple shortcut?
    I guess by simply putting eng=650 & mem=1000 in the AMD Gpu shortcut will "fix" these values and won't let Powerplay gain control of my clocking speed again (i.e. it won't let PowerPlay adjust dynamically again)?

    Is there any other way for doing this?

    Last question: Frequent changing (few times a day) of the frequences of the GPU doesn't decrease the life-span of the component? 'Cause I would hate to discover one day that my GPU doesn't work properly... :-/

    Thanks for the answers ;-)
     
    Ikara, Jul 21, 2010
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  8. HeardEmSay

    HeardEmSay Notebook Evangelist

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    For the last question, no, if anything it should increase the life because it runs it at a cooler temperature.
     
    HeardEmSay, Jul 25, 2010
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  9. peekaboom

    peekaboom Notebook Consultant

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    Has anyone had problems downclocking their GPU to 100/100 all way?

    when plugged in and trying to downclock the memory to anything below 350 I start getting screen artifacts. Any idea what's up with that?

    I have the 10.6 catalyst drivers installed, with the new VBIOS update as well.

    Thanks!
     
    peekaboom, Jul 26, 2010
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  10. barnabe619

    barnabe619 Notebook Geek

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    I have no problems @100/100 but I read somewhere that if you go down from 625/1000 to 100/100 you have artefacts, you should try to down to 300/300 before.

    625/1000 => 300/300 => 100/100
     
    barnabe619, Jul 26, 2010
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  11. H-Bomb

    H-Bomb Newbie

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    so do you have to disable Powerplay to do this?
     
    H-Bomb, Jul 29, 2010
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    Yes I think so.
     
    barnabe619, Jul 30, 2010
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  13. angin

    angin Newbie

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    Hi All, i am new here :)

    I wanna ask u all, if i oc my MSi U230 GPU from 500 to 700 - is it safe?

    English is not my native language, so sorry if i am doing wrong ...
     
    angin, Jul 31, 2010
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