Lowest x1600 Underclock

Hey guys, I was wondering was your lowest underclock. I used to use 135/135 and everything was fine (switching from my overclock profile to my underclock profile) for all of my games until I tried counter strike (the old one) and switching to desktop made it spaz. What underclocks did you guys get? The lowest achieved underclock I remember reading was 209/135.

 

awww come on... bump!

 

Underclocking your X1600 does not do as much good as you think it does (I assume you are trying to get more battery life). PowerPlay normally handles the underclocking. However, PowerPlay does another thing that simple underclocking doesn't - it will lower the voltage of the video card. That is a lot more effective than lowering the clocks when it comes to lowering power consumption.

Now as far as clocks go, 135:135 seems like a very low clock for the X1600. I have gotten my X700 down to around 99:99 without crashing. Even with that low of a clock, I still have about the same battery life as I do with PowerPlay enabled. Trust me, let PowerPlay do its job. It does it very well.

 

ahhh interesting... I think I will do that. I did, however, hear that enabling powerplay while being overclocked is a bad idea. If I set it so my video card goes back to default clocks after gaming that powerplay should take over accordingly? How should I handle using powerplay and overclocking? Thanks

 

hmmm... so today I tried using powerplay and it completely crashed my w3j. Before I had powerplay turned off so it didn't do anything. but the second I turned on powerplay my computer blacked out and restarted. Afterwards, it would continuously reboot showing me the welcome screen then blacking out. Only afterwards I pushed f8 and restored it to the last known good configuration would the computer turn back on. I tried turning powerplay on once again afterwards and had to do the same recovery process.

Keep in mind all of this time I had ATI Tray Tools turned off! So no overclocking nor underclocking was happening. Should I be worried? I'm using the latest Omega drivers.

 

Make sure your powerplay settings are setup properly. I have powerplay enabled with overclocking enabled. It can be very jumpy if its not setup right.

Keep your notebook set on max power if you're plugged in and make sure that you have ATI Tray tools turned off if you plan to go on battery or if you turn down your powerplay settings when plugged in. Also make sure tray tools doesnt start up with the notebook. Thats a guaranteed crash.

 

Like Chaz said: you must underclock your card using PowerPlay. It is very easy and it even changes the voltages.

Charlie

 

Interesting that you say that. I have PowerPlay enabled on my notebook and I overclock. ATI Tray Tools is set to automatically start for me, I've never experience any problems like that. For me, the crash happens the other way around. If I try to start Tray Tools after my notebook is booted up, then I get an instant freeze up.

@ Original Poster: I think you'll simply have to find what works for you.

 

Like I said, ATT is jumpy. I guess it works differently for everyone. Chaz and I even have the same notebook and it works differently on ours. It may be you just have to play with it until you get a setting that works.

 

Yes had this problem as well... When I use the power saving feature on powerplay it screws up my laptop. My friend messed around with my computer telling me all the cool stuff about under volting the video card and stuff. He installs the omega drivers he was on about, restart, restart, restart... That is all my notebook did. I have a W3J as well...

Not sure how to fix it but as you said you had to revert the drivers. Missed a tutorial and was in tears when it happened (My laptop was new!).