HD5870 overclocking

[Morgoth]

Does anny one know some programs that work with HD5870 to overclock?
ccc wont let me go over 900mhz
ati tools, tray tools, amd gpu tools wont start, or dont work or a blank

[bpgt64]

MSi afterburner is supposed to work, but I updated to 10.3 drivers and it doesn't work at all. The settings just don't apply.

[boulard83]

Afterburner should work. Dont know about 10.3 dont tried yet.

but my ASUS card OC nicely with AfterBurner.

[DTV DRAGON]

10.2 and afterburner after you change the zero to a one in the .cfg file and it will clock as high as you want to go ,excellent on my sapphire hd5870

[bpgt64]

What setting is that?

[DTV DRAGON]

its in the .cfg file in afterburner, ,there should be alot posted about the little file mod to go past ccc clocks, just find the .cfg file I believe it is, open up windows explorer and find the msi afterburner program files and open that .cfg file in notepad and at the very bottom it will say something about overclocking ya da ya and change the zero to a one and save file and you should be good to go, I prolly didnt explain it the best so Iam sure you can find a better explination here someplace lol

[Morgoth]

works thx :) 910 mhz and stable

[DTV DRAGON]

works thx :) 910 mhz and stable

great nice to hear!!

[bpgt64]

What setting did you change!

[Morgoth]

What setting did you change!

gpu 850 to 910

[bpgt64]

No no.....what setting did you change in the config file!

[DTV DRAGON]

No no.....what setting did you change in the config file!

at the bottom of the file it should say something about overclocking and there will be a zero beside it...change that zero to a one then save

[Morgoth]

ok this is wierd
when i put it on 900+mhz and pres aply it goes back to 900mhz

[DTV DRAGON]

are you running 10.2 or 10.3, because i think Ive heard that it wont stick with the 10.3 and I know for sure that 9.12 wouldnt stay for me as well
iam running 10.2 and works nice

[Morgoth]

i use 9.12
i get artifacts with 10.2 or it was the beta version, gona try it again

[bpgt64]

I am trying out 10.3 because at stock speeds my HD 5870 CFX are getting better FPS in general.

[kenkickr]

To fix the issue with MSI Afterburner resetting the OC go to C:\Program Files(x86)\MSI Afterburner. Make sure you can view file extensions. Right click on MSIAfterburner.cfg and open with notepad. Now look for EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 0 and change the 0 to 1. That should stop it from resetting the OC value above 900Mhz.

[DTV DRAGON]

I am trying out 10.3 because at stock speeds my HD 5870 CFX are getting better FPS in general.

you find the 10.3 are better? If so I might want to try them out, 10.2 are great , but have abit of time today to kill so maybe ill give them a wirl

[wolf]

10.3 preview drivers are faster without a doubt.

[DTV DRAGON]

10.3 preview drivers are faster without a doubt.

well that all i needed to hear! I will download now ang try them out thanx

[wolf]

well that all i needed to hear! I will download now ang try them out thanx

no probs, my vantage score and crysis benchmarks both went up buy a few %, it all adds up.

[DTV DRAGON]

you are right my furmark, 3d06, are both up as well
hey are you guys installing ati stream v2.10? I found it helped abit as well
but 10.3 are better for me than 10.2

[Morgoth]

To fix the issue with MSI Afterburner resetting the OC go to C:\Program Files(x86)\MSI Afterburner. Make sure you can view file extensions. Right click on MSIAfterburner.cfg and open with notepad. Now look for EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 0 and change the 0 to 1. That should stop it from resetting the OC value above 900Mhz.

that made it work :D
im at 929 mhz :D stable

[Morgoth]

ok found a new problem with msi afterburner
when i want to change voltage i cant get over 850 stock when i go + it goes back to 850 :S
im now at 941mhz gpu

[DTV DRAGON]

ok found a new problem with msi afterburner
when i want to change voltage i cant get over 850 stock when i go + it goes back to 850 :S
im now at 941mhz gpu

I dont realy understand what you mean

[Morgoth]

I dont realy understand what you mean

i unlocked GPU voltage settings
when i done that i cant change mhz on gpu it goes back to 850 stock

[Reefer86]

anyone got a link to the 10.3 drivers?

[erocker]

anyone got a link to the 10.3 drivers?

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1763/ATI_Catalyst_10.3_Beta_Preview_for_Vista7_32-bit64-bit.html

[Reefer86]

IM not really getting anywhere with the overclock on my card andyone got any idea of voltage to use and clocks?

[Kursah]

Hmm, just got this card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150476

And even when I unlock voltage control and monitoring I still have a blanked out slider for Voltage and no reading...bummer! 10.2 drivers, fresh install. Wonder if they changed the PCB and vrm control. Haven't tried to OC yet, it smokes my old GTX260 thus far! On the voltage deal, I just hope it's something simple I'm missing...fwir though it seems I covered my bases by checking the allow voltage control and voltage monitoring tabs, and restarting afterburner. Off to bed now, better luck tomorrow I guess. Sorry for the hijack, just got this card and this thread kinda fits with what I'm dealing with.

:toast:

[DTV DRAGON]

looks like you did cover all the bases in afterburner, afraid you may not have any control over that voltage in your card

[DTV DRAGON]

IM not really getting anywhere with the overclock on my card andyone got any idea of voltage to use and clocks?

well like I told you Iam at 970@1300@1.237volts, and prolly can go higher, but I dont realy want to raise the volts up more, although ive seen alot of guys with volts well into the 1.36+ range, what are you up to in your clocks? are they stable? whats your voltage etc.. Iam sure we can get you rockin

[Sparr]

I am at 1075/1275 @ 1.35 volt since some weeks and is stable, but have wc.

http://i46.tinypic.com/2iiiqna.jpg

@4300Mhz, 1100/1275

[Kursah]

looks like you did cover all the bases in afterburner, afraid you may not have any control over that voltage in your card

Damn! I'd be tempted to try a different bios, but I must have a new rev card that doesn't support voltage monitor/changing...dammit! Oh well, it still smokes the 260 and I just wanted to mess around a bit...no need to OC yet, but still disappointing to say the least...

:toast:

[Reefer86]

well like I told you Iam at 970@1300@1.237volts, and prolly can go higher, but I dont realy want to raise the volts up more, although ive seen alot of guys with volts well into the 1.36+ range, what are you up to in your clocks? are they stable? whats your voltage etc.. Iam sure we can get you rockin

well ive tried up to 1.3 (max via msi afterburner) with no luck at all, any slight increase in either clocks leaves me artifacting and stuttering maybe i should try a different bios? can anyone recommend any?

[Morgoth]

Anny one knows how to volt mode the hd5870?

[DTV DRAGON]

well ive tried up to 1.3 (max via msi afterburner) with no luck at all, any slight increase in either clocks leaves me artifacting and stuttering maybe i should try a different bios? can anyone recommend any?

I though you had the sapphire card but i see its the his brand, at another site there was a guy that was haveing exact same prob as you, he couldnt even raise it up 10mhz and it would artifact for him, I thought maybe it was just a bad chip on his card, anyone else with an his 5870 have luck o/cing it?

[Steevo]

Are you overclockign the memory at the same time? I have found that just like my 4850 there are specific combonations of memory/core speed that just don't play well together.

[Reefer86]

ok im at 950/1250 @ 1.312 now dragon, i cant seem to take it any higher then that without artifacting. Maybe i might look into water cooling this baby, before it will be going any further.

Any more volts doesn't improve my overclock with out stutter or artifacting, not bad 100mhz on the core, was hoping for 1ghz though.

[DTV DRAGON]

ok im at 950/1250 @ 1.312 now dragon, i cant seem to take it any higher then that without artifacting. Maybe i might look into water cooling this baby, before it will be going any further.

Any more volts doesn't improve my overclock with out stutter or artifacting, not bad 100mhz on the core, was hoping for 1ghz though.

way to go! 1.312 is about as high as i would stay for 24/7 on air, now run some benches with that baby and enjoy it, amI totaly satisfied with my 5870
BTW what are your temps like if you run furmark or another gpu stresser?

[Reefer86]

i havnt monitored temps that much but i do see them hit low 80's when at full load overclocked.

IM sure they will be some good after market cooling soon for them.

[DTV DRAGON]

highest mine goes to now at 970@1300 for temps is high 60's, I would need to check my notes but i think it was 67 or close to that.changing the thermal paste helped me out by about 3-5 degrees

[Steevo]

After much work and many reboots and driver recoveries. I have found a temperature break point for overclocking on this card, at 74C it will start to artifact at 1010Mhz core at any voltage, and at even lower core speed with high voltage and temperature. I have been using furmark to test with, clocking the memory above 1346 with a high core clock results in driver recoveries or a hard lock. With less on the core 940Mhz I can run 1360ush before I start to lose performance. The optimal memory speed for my card seems to be 1338 or so.

Testing core voltage to temperature and speed, it seems if you can keep the core cool, you will get a much better overclock. So now I am really excited to get my waterblock and sinks on. No more high temperatures for this card.

[shevanel]

i'm running 925/1275 at default vcore and temps get about 80C with 30% fan setting... stable and no artifacting though. @ 30% the fan is at the limit of how loud I will tolerate it.

summer is gonna suck having to listen to 50% fan speed like a blow dryer.. bah

[Morgoth]

i got mine now stable at 950/1245 :) only noticed a fiew times texture glitches
gpu 40-55c max with hr-03
btw anny one knows how to pencil. voltmode it?

[Steevo]

No glitches for meh. I am happy that I got my system to run 1Ghz and 1336, under water I am hoping for another 25Mhz on the core with still lower temperatures.

[20mmrain]

I thought that MSI After Burn won't work for every manufacturer though.

I know it works with

ASUS
MSI

Heard some say it might work with....
XFX
Gigabyte
"But these two I can't confirm"

But I can say for sure it never worked with my Diamond 5870.

[DTV DRAGON]

stable at 970@1300@1.237v, could go higher on core if I raise voltage,

[20mmrain]

Huh what do you know..... I did a After Burner Code Mod and I can now over clock past 900 with my Diamond 5870. So far I have had it up to 930 Core clock and 120 Mem clock with out trouble.

Cool Shit you learn something every day!

I am not sure if it was covered in this thread or not yet but you can overclock any 5870 using just MSI Afterburner when doing this Code mod..... Here is a link with Directions.....

http://www.overclock.net/ati/633816-how-overclock-your-ati-gpu.html

But incase it hasn't been covered here yet all you have to do really is...

Go into your Programs files
Find MSI Afterbuner folder
Then find the MSIAfterburner.cfg file
Next find the code line that says this......EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 0
Change the 0 to a 1 like so..... EnableUnofficialOverclocking = 1

Then your done..... the bad news is you won't be able to use the Voltage adjustments but you can overclock as high as you want on stock voltages....

Also if you have problems with an error that reads.....Access Denied or permissions error then download a program from here that will let you take control of this file...... once that is done everything will be all set..... Here is the program....

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

Again if this hasn't been covered I hope this helps people if it has been covered than I apologize for re listing it!

[Legolas]

I had good luck using the RBE program here, flashing mky BIOS and getting the voltage up. Catalyst 10.1 give me some improvementbut I stated crasing with 10.2. I couldn't move anything up on my XFX 5870 without crashing.

Is AfterBurner the better way to go?

[20mmrain]

I had good luck using the RBE program here, flashing mky BIOS and getting the voltage up. Catalyst 10.1 give me some improvementbut I stated crasing with 10.2. I couldn't move anything up on my XFX 5870 without crashing.

Is AfterBurner the better way to go?

Well with the exception that you can't use the voltage increases with the way I just listed above..... other than that I would say so!

Although because you have a XFX version of the card you might still be able to use the voltage settings.

Either way I was able to go right past the CCC limits with out a problem. I could even save the settings in MSI afterburner. I did not try to turn off the computer and reboot to see if those same settings would stay after a reboot. So there is a chance that won't work.

But really the way I just listed up there is easier and safer than flashing the BIOS. And it works!

[Legolas]

Thanks for the info. I was scared about the BIOS flashing. Afterburner wouldn't keep the settings back in 9.8 for me and my Crysis seemed even more prone to crash.

[20mmrain]

Thanks for the info. I was scared about the BIOS flashing. Afterburner wouldn't keep the settings back in 9.8 for me and my Crysis seemed even more prone to crash.

Well give the directions I said a try .... all you have to do is change that one value to 1 and you can get past Afterburner and CCC settings.