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    ATI Overdrive tab in CCC?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by lancorp, Jun 27, 2010.

  1. lancorp

    lancorp Notebook Virtuoso

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    I noticed on my Area-51 desktop that the ATI 5800 series driver has an Overdrive tab for monitoring temps, speeds, and doing some GPU overclocking.

    Anyone gotten this tab to appear on the Mobility series? I remember back in the day, there was a Coolbits registry setting (for nVidia?) that brought up a secret tab for fiddling with clocks, etc...

    Just wondered...
     
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    5150Joker Tech|Inferno

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    I tried unlocking it in the bios but it still wouldn't show up in the CCC.
     
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    lancorp Notebook Virtuoso

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    You think it's a Dell thing or an ATI thing that is the source of the blocking? Do any of the 48xx or 58xx Mobility drivers for other manufacturers notebooks have the Overdrive tab?
     
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    The Asus guys unlocked theirs via bios. I tried doing the same thing with no luck. Dell are the ones that locked it out.
     
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    When I had the MSI barebones w/ 5870,

    it showed the overdrive tab that easily tested for artifacts..

    Just loved the overdrive function..
     
    Ryan, Jun 27, 2010
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