ATI 58XX owners Club

[Fitseries3]

i use afterburner and for some reason every time i boot into windows the fan spins up to 50%.

any fix for that?

 

[erocker]

yea hopefully that works for him but it dosent fix anything on my end ive had afterburner lock up from release driver straight through to 10.3b sometimes voltage adjustment works other times it dosent only way i got the thing to overclock stably was to flash to the new bios aka the unlocked msi ones

Are you all using Afterburner 1.51?


@Fits, So you have Afterburner set to start on bootup? Make sure that you have both "auto" ticked and your fan profile selected. I had this too and usually it was because I had my fan profile selected (It turns green) but didn't have "auto" selected.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

it does it for me as well fit and i dont use afterburner anymore i think its just a quirk with the card to be honest unless afterburner is causing it and ive tried afterburner 1.4 1.5 1.51 all the same thing erocker its why i went though hell flashing my cards now i can run up to 875 core before a voltage bump is needed but i dont like loud fan noise to keep it cool so 830/1000 for me and nice quite fan

 

[TheMailMan78]

Mine ramps up to 50% after I wake the computer up from S3 sometimes. I end up having to set it manually at 20% then back to automatic.

 

[erixx]

i'm finishing installing the latest ATI drivers (only!) after flashing the bios with the one supplied above and edited by me to have the OEM correct.

God, was loading DOS a hell, hadn't in a long time and nothing was working except : http://jamesonline.ca/support (Yet had to erase "setup.bat" on my USB stick in order to avoid a MSDOS installation LOL) BUT IT WORKS, period.

Now back to testing all the damn ATI stuff, where are you oh Nvidia hahahaha

 

[erocker]

Mine ramps up to 50% after I wake the computer up from S3 sometimes. I end up having to set it manually at 20% then back to automatic.

ugh, sleep. Sorry, I don't use that, I have no idea. It's on or off for me. As long as there has been "sleep modes" for computers, there's always been problems with it. Stop using it is my advice. You'll make do.

 

[MetalRacer]

My Asus 5850’s came to me new with 850/1200 default clocks and the BIOS number shown by GPU-Z is the same as the Asus 5870. I tried uploading my BIOS using GPU-Z but it said it was already in the database. I don’t know if anybody has already tried flashing a 5850 to a 5870 but it is working on my cards. http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/56695/Asus.HD5870.1024.090915.html

 

[gaximodo]

For the flicker problem, you have to leave ram clocks at constant, if you use 3D clock with a ram clock @1200 and 2D @1125, it will flicker everytime it switches between modes and they do that like every 10 second idle on desktop. in order to stop the flicker you should either not overclock the ram, or overclock the 2D ram clock and let it be the same with your 3D ram clock. This is only needed for crossfire I believe.

 

[erocker]

For the flicker problem, you have to leave ram clocks at constant, if you use 3D clock with a ram clock @1200 and 2D @1125, it will flicker everytime it switches between modes and they do that like every 10 second idle on desktop. in order to stop the flicker you should either not overclock the ram, or overclock the 2D ram clock and let it be the same with your 3D ram clock. This is only needed for crossfire I believe.

I've had my cards clocked every which way and never got the flicker problem, even trying to cause the problem. Just makes me wonder why it happens to some folks and not to others.

 

[gaximodo]

Oh, I'm using two monitors as well.

 

[ShRoOmAlIsTiC]

from what i remember reading, flashing the asus 5870 bios to a 5850 adds more voltage to the ram and gives higher ram clocks. I tried it a while back and remember it was messing with something and I didnt stick with it. not sure if it was temps or what but my system didnt like it. Might have to test it again.

 

[erocker]

My ram is stable up to 1280-ish with the 5850 bios. One thing every 5850 owner should check before flashing to a 5870 bios is their ram. Samsung = good (same as 5870) Quimonda = slower.

 

[ShRoOmAlIsTiC]

yeah mine is samsung and wont go above 1140 or 1160 or something like that

 

[erixx]

Nothing gained so far: same limitations as before: only 0,09 and 1,08 Volt, no low fan speed in Ati Tray Tools.

This Gigabyte 5850 OC has some hard limits...

1)Stay with the 0,09 core V and 55% min fan, live with it
2) Or go Afterburner, have fan freedom but always 1,08 V
3) Use ATT and get an Artic Cooling accelero

erocker, are you there? have you succeded? or blasted?

 

[erocker]

Nothing gained so far: same limitations as before: only 0,09 and 1,08 Volt, no low fan speed in Ati Tray Tools.

This Gigabyte 5850 OC has some hard limits...

1)Stay with the 0,09 core V and 55% min fan, live with it
2) Or go Afterburner, have fan freedom but always 1,08 V
3) Use ATT and get an Artic Cooling accelero

erocker, are you there? have you succeded? or blasted?

There's nothing in the registry to change. I checked the default profile in the ACE folder and there are four "fan" entries all set to a value of 0. I tried 0, 1, 2 and nothing. I can live with 40% fan now, though come Summer I'm sure it will be at 55% like you. Hopefully we'll have a way to override it by then.

 

[erixx]

Ok then! Yes, that's true... I will keep this bios a day or two, before deciding to go back or not to stock bios.

I have not tested overclock after this, but with my 1,08 V I have never succeded beyond aprox 1050/1050 so I keep it at 925/1025 max for 3D and I have had no hang ups since then. And everything rocks gaming wise, so WTF?

 

[ShRoOmAlIsTiC]

There's nothing in the registry to change. I checked the default profile in the ACE folder and there are four "fan" entries all set to a value of 0. I tried 0, 1, 2 and nothing. I can live with 40% fan now, though come Summer I'm sure it will be at 55% like you. Hopefully we'll have a way to override it by then.

Ive tried every option available with rbe and fan speed editing, nothing seems to work for me there. I had it set for 30% at 30c and 80% 80C but once it hits 80c it rams up then slows down over and and over. never actually does the climb with higher temps. its kinda weird cause its doing something but not what it should be doing. I leave mine at 42% in CCC and seems to be fine there for now. My card runs a little warm anyways

 

[erixx]

Dear Shroom!
What is exactly your normal scenario: do you have CCC enabled plus what, to get higher 3D clocks? (CCC is fairly limited). Seems as if you like the CCC fan control, but what other values/apps do you use?

Thanks in advance!

 

[ShRoOmAlIsTiC]

the only thing I use is CCC. I overclock the video card using overdrive, my 24/7 clocks are 900 core and 1100 mem. Thats with the bios I posted in this thread. My card is a reference HIS 5850 bought when they first came available.

 

[erixx]

Only CCC ! Wow, that's contrary to the TPU regulations hehee!

Gotta try it! Thanks!

 

[ShRoOmAlIsTiC]

Only CCC ! Wow, that's contrary to the TPU regulations hehee!

Gotta try it! Thanks!

haha, your funny. I just hate using alternate programs if its not needed. Why install afterburner if you dont have too right. I got the voltage added already in the bios along with the higher CCC clocks enabled and that seems to be the reason everyone uses afterburner

 

[digibucc]

see i'd rather install 3rd party software than put in a modified bios to make CCC do something it wasn't intended to do. afterburner works good and setting 2d/3d profiles means my card never says 157/300 anymore

 

[Fitseries3]

thats like saying you'd rather put a chevy engine in your mustang than just put racing headers on the mustangs engine.

why make more work for yourself if a simple fix can get it working right?

 

[erocker]

see i'd rather install 3rd party software than put in a modified bios to make CCC do something it wasn't intended to do. afterburner works good and setting 2d/3d profiles means my card never says 157/300 anymore

Well, there are cards out there that already have bios' on them where they can OC past 775mhz from the factory. I'd rather have my card at lower clocks in 2d.

 

[ShRoOmAlIsTiC]

I agree, I want my rig to take as little as possible energy to idle. with the 157/300 idle clocks it takes next to nothing to run it. Im also using PhenomMsrTweaker on my cpu(I know third party bs) to run at 800 mhz .82v idle on the quad cores and 3800mhz 1.42v while gaming or anything that actually uses the cpu.

I dont know about you guys but I pay the bills in my house. If I can get my electric bill a little cheaper Ill do what ever it takes( besides not running my computers at all)