Wavy screen overclock x300

I downloaded the atitool and decided to play around with those nice little overclock bars. I moved them up most of the way to the top but didnt see much of a change, then I saw the overclock button and clicked it. The sceen starts going all wavy and stuff couldnt see to be able to turn it back off so I just held the power button, I get the feeling I should have done a little less. I deleted the program now, wasnt planning on using it anyways just wanted to see what it was. Anyways just thought I would share my little experience.

 

Uhhhh....good job possibly frying your graphics card, if you don't know what you're doing, never mess around with overclocking.

 

exactly..and if something goes wrong with your hardware..and u send it in..and dell finds out that u overclocked....then your warranty will be VOID!!!!!!!!!

 

There a plenty of threads here to help you do it with relative safety but, like they said, it is done at your own risk and it does void your warranty if DELL finds out.

 

The still works the same as always, it was only doing that for about 5 seconds before it was shut down, I seriously doubt that any damage would occur in that timeframe. I agree with Tomas that they would not be able to tell anyways.

 

that last part isn't true...if they look at your hardware when u send it in to get repaired..your warranty is gone

 

That's only if there is heat scarring, and I seriously doubt there is after only five seconds. It takes a decent amount of heat before these things burn out. Your screen will get all crazy long before it gets hot enough to do that.

 

In case you're still interested in overclocking, you should press the "Find max core" button, and wait for ATITool to find the max safe core speed (w/o artifacts) and then put that back to default and then "Find max mem". I wait at least one hour for each test to complete. To be safe, I'd take off a few MHz off each overclocked value and then test on 3DMark to see if there's any artifacts, instability, etc. I tried this on mine, though I don't use those settings that often, as constantly running your GPU overclocked would probably shorten its lifespan considerably. Do this at your own risk, of course, as the warranty may be void.

 

Unless your gaming, your gpu doesn't constantly run over clocked. It defaults back to its 2d speeds when not in use.


(Cerritos huh... I'm in Norwalk. Hello neighbor)

 

Ah I forgot to mention that I switched to just using Centrino Hardware Control for the graphics since I use it for temperature monitoring and voltage control too. It isn't automatic there. Also, greetings to you Tomas, though I will be moving out of Cerritos for college soon.

 

With CHC you can Under-volt your system, correct? What are the possible disadvantages to that under-volting?


Hey Be prepared if your not from around here or Los Angeles in general; it's a real culture shock.