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    For those looking to OC the HD3670, fear not, there is an answer

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by funky monk, Nov 30, 2009.

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    Today I decided I'd install powerstrip, I noticed it had GPU clock features in it.... guess what? They work! It's rather temrimental about getting the profiles loaded (maybe I'm just inexperienced). It even gives you the option of clocking the memory up to a highly unlikely >1000. I would post screen shots but I got rather fed up with it an uninstalled it out of annoyance since I told it to clock at 520/815 and when I hovered my mouse ever the system tray it told me I was at 336/457 or something along the lines.

    Anyway, the point is that OC'ing the 3670 IS possible. If we could get the guy from setFSB to make us a working copy then that would be even better. From the small amount of benchmarking, I managed to get FurMark to go up about two FPS (30 second benchmark, 0xAA, 800x800 resolution because I hate fullscreen benchmarks). It would also be awsome if we could improve the RAM timings too although that's of less benefeit than OC'ing the GPU and CPU.

    As for the limits of this card, out of frustration I clocked the memory to 860 and my screen blanked so that might give you some idea. I thought I should have been able to go a little higher but maybe I just have a bad card.

    If we manage to clock everything to the max in this computer, I wonder how much better it would perfrom?
     
    funky monk, Nov 30, 2009
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