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In need of some overclocking advice please

I see...You have the 3850...Great card but no adjustments on the fan...


Use HWMonitor to see your vid card temps..

If over 55 -65 you need something like Riva Tuner to set the fan speed up..


But check themps first....http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php
 
Hmmm


Plenty cool...If its artifacting at that temp you might be loosing the card...

That temp is great..

It may be a corrupted driver.....You can uninstall it and reinstall it again and see...

What catalist version are you running? If you are running the newest 9.9 then you need to use a driver cleaner in safe mode after you uninstall it...If you go down in Catalist

That card may run better with the Catalist 9.4 or 9.6




have you looked at this ATI set up ? http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=16294
 
v9.7 is what I had. After some more testing, I've come to a conclusion that the card is going out. When exactly....who knows. I reverted back several versions of catalyst drivers. Stopping at v8.5 which was the only known good driver for this particular card. I'll run it for as long as I can. I've got a ATIX850XT Pro for back-up.
 
Harley or Texnet,

Can Dell machines be overclocked? I have a nice i7 940 with an GTX 295 and would love to tweak more power out of her. I have seen on other forums Dells are not particularly overclock friendly, but would love to try. Afterall, FSX can never have enough power, for all of the addons.

Matt
 
I have a Dell XPS 720, and it is fair to O/C

It should be the same process, at start up go in to the BIOS screen, once there use the arrow keys to go down to the Performance tab on the left hand side, press the + key and this should open up to show Advanced etc . You need to go in to Advance so arrow down till it is hightlighted then press enter. This then takes on to the core speed again use the arrow keys to increase or decease the speed. You will also have to turn on the Performance Application to Yes. Press enter, then escape save the settings, and the machine will re-start.

When you go in to the control panel, systems it should show the need core speed.
 
strykerpsg said:
Harley or Texnet,

Can Dell machines be overclocked? I have a nice i7 940 with an GTX 295 and would love to tweak more power out of her. I have seen on other forums Dells are not particularly overclock friendly, but would love to try. Afterall, FSX can never have enough power, for all of the addons.

Matt
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It will OC if you are not locked out of the bios tweaking features...
 
Many of the newer,higher end Dell systems do allow moderate overclocking....I'm unsure if it'll be covered under warranty however should any issues arise.
 
Thanks for the updates guys. I tried to OC before and it didn't semm to produce much, but have a newer machine and better graphics cards as well. Perhaps a good weekend project with all the dang snow we get up here. Oh, to be back in central Texas or PNW again.....

Matt
 
Matt there are some workarounds to OCing the new dells but only on certain models not all i7s they turn out have a motherboard that OC friendly. PM me with you exact model on the back of your PC and serial number.
Ted
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Ted,

Thanks. I am currently TDY for the week, but will hit you and Harleyman both up for the OC advice when I return. I think I've got a pretty good upper end machine and want to take advantage of the hardware for what it's capable of versus just the vanilla filling they go out the door with. Talk to you in a week,

Matt
 
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