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    Overdrive VS AMD GPU Clock

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by dolsson, Dec 8, 2010.

  1. dolsson

    dolsson Notebook Geek

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    Please don't hate if this has been beaten to death. I'm not posting to be a jerk, I am looking for intelligent answers.

    I've done some looking around and it seems that the popular tool for overclocking the 5870m is AMD GPU Clock Tool. It's an old tool from what I've seen and I'm a little confused by it. With more poking around I'm sure I could figure it out.

    The question that's been in the front of my mind is where the heck is Overdrive? It seems to have been purposefully left out or disabled from CCC, but why?

    Was this intended as it doesn't work with our version of the 5870?

    Any help would be great, I'd like to use that over GPU Clock Tool if possible.

    Thanks all!
     
    dolsson, Dec 8, 2010
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  2. Sabre-shin

    Sabre-shin Notebook Consultant

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    The default VBIOS has the Overdrive disabled, thus it will not show in the CCC until you install a version that has Overdrive enabled, such as Chastity's.
     
    Sabre-shin, Dec 8, 2010
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  3. dolsson

    dolsson Notebook Geek

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    Great thank you, I thought that might be the case...

    Just wondering, why would they have disabled the Overdrive in the vBIOS? Do they really not want people mucking with the clock speeds, especially on the already prone to GSOD 5870 that we have?

    I will look through Chastity's sig for her version of the vBIOS and be on my way then.
     
    dolsson, Dec 8, 2010
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  4. Chastity

    Chastity Company Representative

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    I think you answered your own question. Overclocking can lead to instability, which then means more phonecalls to Asus.
     
    Chastity, Dec 8, 2010
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  5. dolsson

    dolsson Notebook Geek

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    After the track record with this model, I can't blame them.

    I'm just used to these freaking features being available by default, like in the BIOS of a standard desktop computer.
     
    dolsson, Dec 8, 2010
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