qubit
Overclocked quantum bit
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System Name | Quantumville™ |
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Processor | Intel Core i7-2700K @ 4GHz |
Motherboard | Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 |
Cooling | Noctua NH-D14 |
Memory | 16GB (2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance Black DDR3 PC3-12800 C9 1600MHz) |
Video Card(s) | MSI RTX 2080 SUPER Gaming X Trio |
Storage | Samsung 850 Pro 256GB | WD Black 4TB | WD Blue 6TB |
Display(s) | ASUS ROG Strix XG27UQR (4K, 144Hz, G-SYNC compatible) | Asus MG28UQ (4K, 60Hz, FreeSync compatible) |
Case | Cooler Master HAF 922 |
Audio Device(s) | Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty PCIe |
Power Supply | Corsair AX1600i |
Mouse | Microsoft Intellimouse Pro - Black Shadow |
Keyboard | Yes |
Software | Windows 10 Pro 64-bit |
I've been using ATI Tool for a long time now on various ATI cards over the years. This tool adds so much value to AMD's graphics products, that I feel they should pay W1zzard to develop it and provide him with all the documentation and resources to make a first class job of it. They should then bundle a copy on the driver CD with every card.
As it is, W1zzard has to reverse engineer all these different cards and gets no help in writing this complex app. He then has to somehow squeeze all this hard work into his spare time.
The result is that we have a buggy mess that's in a constant beta state and is very frustrating to use. Just look at the people begging for fixes on the ATI Tool beta thread to see what I mean. Most of these requests end up going unfixed, including mine.
My own personal glitches currently relate to the use of ATI Tool on my HD2900XT 1GB with 0.27b3 & 0.27b4 (b4 isn't even listed on the beta thread, yet it exists...) The 2900 has a reputation for being a noisy and slow card, mainly due to its high power requirements. Well, with careful management, that's simply not true. Using ATI Tool, I can adjust clock, fan and voltage settings so that the card is always silent during desktop use and makes only a slight noise during 3D games, even when moderately overclocked. The underrated 2900 really shines when carefully set up in this way.
Unfortunately, the auto switching on ATI Tool is shot, so I constantly have to correct it manually, which is very irritating.
Here, it does not properly read all the profile parameters of the config file when switching between 2D & 3D clocks, or starting up. For example, the voltages are not set automatically. I have to manually tell it to load the core voltage from the file and then set it. Every damn time - and there's been no update and no fix for months now. There's other glitches too, unfortunately.
All this crap would go away, if DAAMIT would simply pay him and give him the resources to do a first class job of it. Just think how many more cards they'd sell to us diehard enthusiasts by keeping us loyal to ATI?? His payment would be peanuts compared to their profit. Fools.
As it is, thanks for all your hard work, W1zzard and please don't give up. Perhaps show DAAMIT this thread and see if they can be persuaded?
As it is, W1zzard has to reverse engineer all these different cards and gets no help in writing this complex app. He then has to somehow squeeze all this hard work into his spare time.
The result is that we have a buggy mess that's in a constant beta state and is very frustrating to use. Just look at the people begging for fixes on the ATI Tool beta thread to see what I mean. Most of these requests end up going unfixed, including mine.
My own personal glitches currently relate to the use of ATI Tool on my HD2900XT 1GB with 0.27b3 & 0.27b4 (b4 isn't even listed on the beta thread, yet it exists...) The 2900 has a reputation for being a noisy and slow card, mainly due to its high power requirements. Well, with careful management, that's simply not true. Using ATI Tool, I can adjust clock, fan and voltage settings so that the card is always silent during desktop use and makes only a slight noise during 3D games, even when moderately overclocked. The underrated 2900 really shines when carefully set up in this way.
Unfortunately, the auto switching on ATI Tool is shot, so I constantly have to correct it manually, which is very irritating.
Here, it does not properly read all the profile parameters of the config file when switching between 2D & 3D clocks, or starting up. For example, the voltages are not set automatically. I have to manually tell it to load the core voltage from the file and then set it. Every damn time - and there's been no update and no fix for months now. There's other glitches too, unfortunately.
All this crap would go away, if DAAMIT would simply pay him and give him the resources to do a first class job of it. Just think how many more cards they'd sell to us diehard enthusiasts by keeping us loyal to ATI?? His payment would be peanuts compared to their profit. Fools.
As it is, thanks for all your hard work, W1zzard and please don't give up. Perhaps show DAAMIT this thread and see if they can be persuaded?