Well this is annoying (Envy 14 Radeon 5650 mobility)

The 5650 in the envy 14 has a stock setting of 450/800.


AMD GPU Tool doesn't work (crashes it).

newer catalyst drivers don't work (don't support it so we're stuck at 8.713 which..I guess is 10.3a or 10.3b or a modified 10.3 or something)


HP why'd you set it at 450/800? The dv6t is at 550/800.

 

Have you tried MSI afterburner?

 

no.

I'll try that out next.

here's the gpu-z if anyone is interested.

 

every time I hit apply in msi afterburner it resets back to 450 core and/or 800 memory

 

what about Rivatuner I use it for my HD4570 ????

 

haven't tried it yet.

I do know that amd gpu clock tool hard freezes the computer.

msi afterburner does nothing.


I somehow got the 10.6 alpha drivers to install. amd tool still hard freezes

msi afterburner still resets to 450/800 after changing.

 

Is the AMD tool the same as ATI Tools? If not give that a try, just google it.

 

yeah it's the same. rivatuner...doesn't have overclocking options..


*gets cat 10.6 to install somehow via 10.3 hp --> 10.6 alpha --> 10.6 release*

well...even with the 10.6s amd gpu clock tool crashes.

msi afterburner...stil does nothing.

rivatuner....I can't figure out how to make it work (doesn't like the graphics drivers for some reason)

 

There is an "ATi Tool" and "ATi Tray Tools" which are different programs. Have you tried ATi Tray Tools?

 

update:


msi afterburner worked after modifying something in the .cfg

 

Same thing on my Sony Vaio, it's underclocked by default to 450/790. I use AMD GPU Clock Tools v0.26 for my overclocking and it works fine. I can reach 650/950 with temps always under 70 degrees. My point is, maybe you're using the wrong version of AMD GPU Clock Tools for the 5650.

I though HP did support Ati Catalysts. But I know Sony doesn't. So try this link here for the install file of 10.6, should install fine, it did for me.

 

I might be.

I have 0.9.26 so...who knows.


anyway catalyst 10.6 may be giving me a weird fps issue where it dips to 0 for a split second every 5-8 seconds

 

Its the samething with the Sony Vaio Z and the M11x your just going to have to overclock it.

 

@MagusDraco ,
Did you check the laptop temps(both CPU and GPU) before and after overclock?

If so, I'm curious to know

 

Why not flash the vBIOS?

 

well with furmark running and at 585/885 (not doing xtreme burning oh hell no, just regular stability) I got up to 76 C. regular temps were around well...68-70 at stock in furmark I think (450/800)


starcraft 2 phase 1 on high (shadows set to low) at 550/800 gave me 78ish C for both cpu and gpu though fps was pretty constant at 60-70 besides the mothership's cloak screwing things up and dropping it to 50-60 (the mothership cloak screws everyone's stuff up, always, it's annoying like that)

there was at times a little stutter going on but that was happening at stock some too and I'm blaming how I had installed the catalyst 10.6 drivers (through the alpha, since doing it regularly just crashed things). I hope the 10.7s support intel switchable graphics

other people are having crashing issues if they up their memory at all (and sometimes upping their core) so...maybe I lucked out with a nice card...or I haven't OCd it long enough to crash.

and I have no clue how to begin to flash the vBIOS and at the moment don't want to screw this thing up.

 

@MagusDraco,
Thanks for the info