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Thanks. I asked because PowerPlay was not functional with the Clevo 5870m and so dynamic clocking was not available, an inconvenience and disadvantage with relatively powerful cards. I've lived with one in my Sager 8760 for a year or so and don't want to repeat the mistake. Thanks for the response.
I'd actually hold out, and double check.
I was going by an Alienware R3's clocking, as I was unaware of any difference.
Even if it doesn't work, you should be able to flash with the Dell vBIOS, and gain those features, or else that would be a hardware restriction.
On that note, though, my 5870M from my D900F used to have PowerPlay enabled, and dynamically clocked down... Maybe yours just has an issue? Maybe try flashing your 5870M to a Dell vBIOS now?
My AMD Radeon HD 6970m downclocks to 100 MHz on GPU core and 150 MHz on memory.
Temps are around 45 degrees celsius.
On load it clocks up to 710 MHz on core and 1000 MHz on memory, thats the safety limit of AMD OverDrive.
Usually my temps are 75 degrees celsius in gaming.
I think thats pretty good considering its a sorta like downclocked AMD Radeon HD 6850.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
