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    First ATI cards

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by buzzfgo, Oct 28, 2010.

  1. buzzfgo

    buzzfgo Notebook Guru

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    Can these cards be OC'ed like Nivida cards? Is the gain worth it if you can?

    I see that the drivers are updated pretty regular but does that mean drivers not from AMD are not to be used?

    Sorry for the noob questions, but I'm not getting the performance in MW2 that I think I should be.
     
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    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Honestly I don't think there is much use. The cards can max out any game. Gaining 1 FPS isn't worth it. Mabe down the road it will be more beneficial, but not at the moment. The cards are great and can be overclocked though. I did a TON of benchmarking with them and put up some great numbers. But whenever I'm gaming, I game on stock CPU/GPU clocks. The best and most stable way to overclock the cards is by reflashing the vbios with an edited bios.
     
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    buzzfgo Notebook Guru

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    I used fraps with MW2 just now and had 92fps... guess that will work just fine.. :)
     
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    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Given that the screen refresh rate is only 60Hz, anything above 60FPS isn't going to be noticable because the screen can't refresh quick enough to post 61+ FPS. So yea lol 92FPS should work. And that number will change based on whats going on, but really MW2 isn't too demading so there shouldn't be any issues. I'm waiting till my system gets fixed. I have Medal of Honor to play and eagarly awaiting Coll of Duty, Black Ops :D
     
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    Getting geared up for Black Ops. Why I dusted off MW2
     
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    I am gamer Notebook Consultant

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    Mr buzz.. In my Mw2 i get up to 130fps and down to 45fps.. But it seems like to be something with cf because when i dont use cf i get 60+ in same areas that i with cf get 45fps. Same goes with race driver grid. 50-70fps with cf and 60+ without.. With dells first drivers everything was fine at least with grid?? Anybody know what to do about this??