How to widen MSI Afterburner's overclocking range?

Hi,

I recently received the laptop in signature, and have been trying to set up 2D/3D clocks for the ATi 5650 in MSI Afterburner.

I've used AMD GPU Clock Tool to push the clocks , and used Furmark plus games (Crysis / SC2) to test the stability for overclocking, and have found out that the ballpark is ~750 MHz core / 1125 MHz memory (coming from 550 MHz / 800 MHz).

Now, with ATi there is a Powerplay function which automatically scales down the GPU clocks to 100/200 whenever there's no load, IF the clocks are at stock level. Using that in conjunction with MSI Afterburner (set 2D profile to stock clocks, 3D profile to OC clocks) would theoretically work well but...

It can't push past 715 / 1040.

I can certainly make it overclock past that (by setting OC clocks, then reopening MSI Afterburner), but then I lose the 550/800 2D profile.

I have already unlocked the MSI Afterburner via its cfg file where I set unofficial overclocking to 1.

Is there any way of doing this without getting hindered in overclocking? An unlocked MSI version maybe? Or another overclocking tool which also does 2D/3D profiling and doesn't have limited clock range?



Thanks for reading.

 

there's a cfg file you can tweak.

Set UnoffcialOverclocking to 1 and you can extend the range.

 

Already did that in the first place. The aforementioned issue is WITH the cfg unlocked.

 

You can use profiles in MSI afterburner. If you have a clock that you can use so that you get your normal downclocks you can set that as a 2d profile. Then in 3d you can set afterburner to use your OC clocks.

 

Again. I explained in first post that I know how to do that and did that already.

The problem isn't that, the problem is that if I want the 2D clock profile to be stock clocks (so Powerplay can happen), my 3D overclocked clock profile CANNOT be pushed higher than the upper limits of the draggable bar - in my case 715/1040 MHz. If I do push it higher, via the exploit (also already explained in my first post), the stock clock profile gets removed.



The only likelihood of overcoming this would be by more advanced modding of MSI Afterburner to unlock the OC bar more (the range of OC); or by finding an OC software also with profiles, but with higher limits.