I hope I didn't damage my HD3870...
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From: KlausK on 31 Jan 2008 17:36 I was playing around with Ati Tool today. With a Thermalright HS, the GPU temp was always below 47C even when running 3D Mark 06. So, I clicked "find max core." It went up & up..to 840, 850 and then suddenly my PC lost video signal. I rebooted. No video signal. I panicked and rebooted. No video signal. About 2 minutes later, I rebooted and (whew) everything seemed normal. I ran 3D Mark again and it went fine. So, I hope I didn't damage my 3870...(sigh).
From: First of One on 31 Jan 2008 19:20
"KlausK" <dinga(a)noone.com> wrote in message news:47a0fbea$0$6339$607ed4bc(a)cv.net... >I was playing around with Ati Tool today. With a Thermalright HS, the GPU >temp was always below 47C even when running 3D Mark 06. So, I clicked "find >max core." It went up & up..to 840, 850 and then suddenly my PC lost video >signal. Remember, better cooling doesn't allow for higher overclocks. Better cooling in conjunction with voltage increases allows for higher overclocks. > I rebooted. No video signal. I panicked and rebooted. No video signal. > About 2 minutes later, I rebooted and (whew) everything seemed normal. I > ran 3D Mark again and it went fine. Often, overclocking-induced crashes require a hard power-off/on (i.e. flipping the switch on the back of the PSU) to reset. Warm reboots don't always work. > So, I hope I didn't damage my 3870...(sigh). If there's damage, you would see it (in the form of flashing pixels, checker-pattern textures, etc.). Ironically, your whole ordeal may have been pointless. The new cards like the HD3870 and 8800GT tend to be limited by memory bandwidth at high res + FSAA. You will see higher gains overclocking the RAM. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." |