Catalyst 6.8 and ATT in love again? Bench scores.

Hi guys and girls,

Following the info from inferno at www.thegamebooks.com forum I tried it and there were no BSODs or resets. No frequency drop too. But I had to turn on the NHC Powerplay control and then disable the whole thing. That way I get ATT settings to stay in 3d games. I installed the driver without CCC.

So 6.8 is faster than others (I don't know about 6.7), and the fastest since 6.3 and 5.13. OpenGl is also much faster (Quake 4 for example). I overclocked my card to 415/435 with latencies set and got 3160 3dmark05. That is 1050 marks more than the default 350/300! In combination with NHC CPU undervolting of already overclocked CPU (140 MHz bus thus getting 2.0+ GHz performance from a 1,86 GHz proc) I got a great gaming boost, i.e. between 25% - 30% at normal temps around 80 degrees C (it is 26 degees C in the room today) with a coolerpad!

FEAR:
FPS min, avg, max:
22, 34, 78 at 350/300
25, 46, 88 at 413/432

So to all of you who were trying ATT with Catalysts (Chaz, Charlie...) and hated 6.4 and above drivers, you can try it and see if your old profiles work!

Can you guys confirm this on your systems? Latencies in ATT are speed for nothing, so I am quite happy that it works again.

Cheers,

Ivan