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    Anyone doing this with their sxps 16xx? With 4670?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by MattXPS, Mar 14, 2010.

  1. MattXPS

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    Using Rivatuner, I believe you can prevent the 84C limit from kicking in by having the program auto clock the GPU back to normal when it detects the clockrate dropping.
     
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    are you serious? wouldn't everyone be doing that if that was the case? i just got my 1647 today but i will definitely be looking into that!
     
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    rivertuner does bypass the 84C limit. the computer shuts itself down via ATIs limit at 96C
     
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    I've done it, I get 90C when benchmarking Resident Evil 5 at highest settings, and that's at 675/800. That's the highest it went though, and it lasted for all of about 5 seconds before it dropped back. It generally stayed right around 85-87...that was with stock thermal paste and no cooling pad sitting on a carpet at room temperature...so I'm assuming that it would go down once I use Arctic 5 and a cooling pad (oh tomorrows going to be an experiment for me with this LOL)

    My 3dMark went up by about 2500 points as well from 6220 to 7776. So I was happy to hear about that. Like I said, I just turn it off when I'm done, and Power Play sets it back to 220, and my temp drops back to 50-55 for a bit, then back to 47-48 when it idles.
     
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    Did you OC the GPU to get that score or am I the only one who averages around 7100-7200 stock standard?
     
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    I OC'd it by 1 Mhz to 676.

    I did finally hit the threshold to shut it down though while playing Empire Total War. So I don't know if I'll do that again. I wonder if underclocking it will keep it steady and override that 84C thing.
     
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    sorry I maybe incorrect.. but in 3dmark tests the score is greatly changed due to processors.. you can have the same card and 1 might have a lower end processor and you might have a higher end processor thats why the store is different.

    If you want to test the gpu more test it in vantage.

    3dmark is a test of gpu and processors combo
     
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    I think you are right because there is a section where it tests CPU, I thought Vantage was a pay to play thing, so I didn't try it there.
     
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    I decided to get Rivatuner this morning but I've never used it before. I got it to recognize my GPU but I don't see an option that would combat the thermal throttling limit...or am I looking in the wrong place?
     
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    Link doesnt work..
     
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