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    Overclocking the 7970M - Once more with feeling (MSI cards) - can't get it to work

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Meaker@Sager, Oct 16, 2012.

  1. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Right.

    MSI GX60, A10-4600 + 7970M.

    Get MSI afterburner.

    Apply Reg edits.

    Edit config file with eula and unofficial overclocking.

    Clocks stuck at 0mhz :/

    The program shows 5 instances of the 7970M :S

    Tried with sapphire trixx and EVGA, both show clocks at maximum but they can be lowered.

    Any ideas?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 16, 2012
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    Same thing happened to me, it automatically fixed itself once I ran a game and the gpu activated. Maybe try launching afterburner once you have a game running.
     
    failwheeldrive, Oct 16, 2012
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  3. Meaker@Sager

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    I changed the overclocking mode to 2 and that seemed to work.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 16, 2012
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    Glad you got it running. Quick off-topic question: I just ran 3Dmark vantage at 950/1400, and my score was lower than my 900/1300 oc score. I noticed the utilization dropping down to 65% 3 times, I guess that means it was throttling, right? I'm a total noob to this stuff, but how do I prevent that from happening?
     
    failwheeldrive, Oct 16, 2012
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    Watch your temps and don't overclock so much. Higher clocks = higher temps. You could do a repaste to see if you can get more thermal headroom.
     
    R3d, Oct 16, 2012
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    Errr no, it does not throttle in that fashion, something else is up, be it CPU or driver issues.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 16, 2012
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    I'm waiting on my thermal paste to come in, ordered some last week. Temps aren't too bad but they're higher than I like. They hover around 80 while gaming, and I've hit 87 while benchmarking. I always monitor them with afterburner.

    Could it be related to Enduro? I've never noticed it before today while running 3Dmark, just while gaming. Sorry for threadjacking and the noob questions, I just knew you were a tech wizard so I thought I'd ask lol.
     
    failwheeldrive, Oct 16, 2012
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    i enabled overdrive in ccc via this trick.try that to see if u can overclock via overdrive!!

    C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\MSIAfterburner.exe" -xcl
     
    johnnyman27, Oct 16, 2012
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  9. Meaker@Sager

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    Should it just appear or do I need to make afterburner do that at boot or restart?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 16, 2012
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  10. Zymphad

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    You just run it once. You should see verification that it worked. After you just run Afterburn normally without -xcl.
     
    Zymphad, Oct 16, 2012
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    like hulawafu77 said u just run it once then reboot ur laptop.after this go to ccc settings and u have overdrive option!!u dont need to run afterburner again.u just overclock from ccc!! :)
     
    johnnyman27, Oct 17, 2012
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    Please teach me how to run overdrive in CCC (Full tutorial)
     
    Dezmenn, Apr 15, 2013
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    Overdrive doesn't work with Enduro notebooks, so unless you've got a NP8150/70 then you can't do it. If you do have one of those laptops, then follow the instructions above to enable overdrive.
     
    failwheeldrive, Apr 15, 2013
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    It's just another way of AMD showing their love for mobile gamers. Only Nvidia provides official overclocking support for mobile users, for AMD it's all unofficial for mobile.
     
    Zymphad, Apr 15, 2013
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