Overclocking and Locking Using Riva Tuner

I would like to understand how to use this with my ATI 4650 HD Mobility Radeon Card, but it says it's not supported, something about an unsigned driver during install "rivatuner.sys"

I would like to bump my Freq up on the GPU a bit and lock it down. But I am very confused by the instructions and what to do. Any help?

Oh, I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate, and I have UAC turned off.

Thanks!

 

http://twisted-reviews.com/overclocking-ati-mobility-radeon-hd4570-hd4650-hd4670/

this guide tells you what you need to change for rivatuner to work with your card.

 

Thanks for that, now my next question is when I overclock, the GPU stays at that speed right? I'm not trying to overclock just set it so that it doesn't spin down at 84C, the highest it got during m benchmark was 90C and from what I've been able to tell that's been a safe temp. Like I set it to 675, and it stays at 675 and doesn't change unless I turn it off.

And is it okay to have it staying there?

 

what spec laptop do you have? those temps are a tad on a high side.
also, set frequencies only stay until you reboot.

 

I've got a Dell S-XPS 1645
i7 720QM 1.6Ghz
4GB RAM
1GB ATI HD Mobility Radeon 4650

Im running these with no cooling pad, stock thermal paste.

90C is the highest it reached doing a test with Resident Evil 5 benchmark. I ran 3dMark06 and it got to I think 85. And my score was something like 7700.

It only stayed at 90 for about 4-5 seconds when running Resident Evil 5.

 

My 1640 with t9600 used to get up to 100c after like 20 mins of gaming without any overclocking of the GPU. I have since replaced the t9600 with p8600 and applied arctic silver on both cpu and gpu.
now even with my radeon 4670 overclocked to 740 gpu 940 mem my temps almost never go over 73c. Not sure whether replacing thermal paste or the cpu itself did more to reduce the temps, but since arctic silver is dead cheap its something you might want to consider.

 

I will be getting that Arctic cool tomorrow for sure, that I already planned on. I'll look into a good pad as well though. It only get's that hot for gaming and such, it idles at around 53-55 if it's overclocked, 48-49 if not

 

temps are high this is idle overclocked 750/900 max after several hours of gaming hits the highest 67' and my processor hits max 50' i also applied tx-3 to the gpu and cpu

 

When my system is idled and not overclocked I get temps of 48-50 on the GPU...my processor doesn't really get to 60C

But with it overclocked only 1Mhz to keep it at 676/800 I did hit the ATI 96C threshold and it shut my system off.

But I wasn't using a cooling pad, and I had the stock thermal paste on it.

I'm using the SXPS 1645, so I don't know if thats why it's causing it specifically or not

 

Which Catalyst are yall using?? My system halts as soon as i overclock it and i have to restart the pc. I am using 10.3beta.

 

I' not using the beta, I'm using the one that is in the Dell Driver section for Windows 7 64-bit

 

Thanx for the reply. What frequency did you set it into?? like 675/800?? i was setting it to 700/950 and it used to halt.

 

I set it to 676/800 only because if you set it to 675, then it will still throttle. I'm going to try to down clock it to about 650 to see if it throttles or keeps my stuff below the 94C that it took for the ATI card to shut my system down. I don't NEED all of the GPU ram at the moment, but I paid 1,200 for this system, so I want all of it.

When I disable powerplay, my clock runs a 400Mhz/800, and I can run my games on high in 1280x720

 

you should change the thermal paste, those temps are way too high for an oc that small.

 

How do you lock the frequency? I got my card working in rivatuner but at arbitrary Dell cap of 84C I was still getting throttled down to 300MHZ there's supposedly an option for forcing performance constant or something like that but I can only find directions for enabling it on an Nvidia card...

 

Well I just put some Arctic Silver 5 on it, so hopefully in a bit I will see a difference.

@Fenikkusu: On the first page of this topic there is a link to the instructions that I used to do it. Those helped me a ton.

 

im using 10.3 beta
you have to use ATI tool or something like that so you can see if there are artifacts you cant just push it up to whatever you would like

 

Update here.....WOW. I ran the same benchmark with Resident Evil 5, and at the highest settings....my GPU didn't get over 75.

Also, when I took apart the system to look, my GPU had almost ZERO thermal paste, I couldn't believe it. It wasn't even on the copper heat sink.

 

I did all that already, I just can't lock it at the rated performance it doesn't say how to do that in the guide so basically when I hit 84 C the throttling starts.

 

Weird, mine just locked in and didn't throttle, I didn't have to do anything.

 

does overclocking void the warranty??

 

I would say only if it causes damage to the card (which it could, mine got so hot my computer shut off, that's with only clocking it to 676)

 

how do i use Rivatuner with Win7 64 bit? it just won't sign the driver (i tried DSEO)

 

Use version 2.24, and when installing click the check for updates thingy, worked for me as i had the same problem, also mayb need to put user account control down to the lowest setting

 

do i have to do all that together with DSEO? i have 2.24 and UAC disabled, but it won't show the drivers

never mind. i got it already. OCed to 690/900

 

Oh you have to change the RiverTuner.cfg file in the rivertuner directory.

Add 9488h to the list where it says RV730 under [Gpu 1002]