Windows 7: Help overclocking my 6970

well, there's no actually absolute figures in getting away in Ocing, but an absolute safe should come on priority unless you lose a lifespam of stuff as it should be. In general speaking ocing, one amongst, is a matter of voltage which then affects directly to heat. So oc gpu is just like we do for CPU, only the resistance towards heat make them different.

From what i've read, the gpu could stand heat more than that of cpu. 60C gpu temp is catagorized warm while cpu is a bit hot, below 85C of gpu is still normal / safe zone, >85C to 100C hot and >100C very hot .

First to do is up the clock by 25 mhz and keep the voltage default, stress it with i,e furmark in a certain period. if ok, then up more 2nd 25 mhz and so on till you find it unstable. and if you want to push more clock, up the voltage per one increament till you find it stable. Always remember the temp which you can read while gpu's being stressed.

Have a good OC

thank you very much. thanks to trixx, whether or not its the best program to use, i dont know, but they provide me with them and fan controll, when i play bf3 i never let it go above 70 degrees and thats with my case fans down and gpu fan t 43%. i know for most thats still a bit cold, but i like consistancy to tell me if somthing is wrong.
Seeing as how i am new to this, what are the ratios? of core/memory/Voltage.

thats another thing, i didnt really see you post anything about the memory clock from what i see, just the core clock. if you could help ansewer my questions as best you can, id greatly appreciate it

my CCC does not have overdrive built in,

i had to download it 3d party, but i dont trust it with my gpu,

It would be a pointless achievement at best, you wont see improvements in game play as your already getting more than enough frames to spare.

hai... Thorton may i ask you this :
what do u mean by "my CCC does not have overdrive built in"?
is it that "overdrive built in" which unlocks/bypasses CCC limit? if so, then you have to do some bios mod ( as i did with my hd5850 TF II - ccc overdrive limits to 775 core and 1125 mem - default 725/1000 ).

as with memory oc, do it just you oc the corelock. AFAIK there's no absolute ratios of core/memory and voltage. Besides memory increase has no significant affects to fps bump as that of core.

no VCC has amd overdrive, but does not give me ANY options to wotk with my gpu, only my cpu, same with the application amd overdrive, only my cpu. i certainly do trust amd because they built it, but people who have done this claim otherwise. as for it not being much of a performance benifit, i run at around 50-55 fps when playing bf3, if i scale the window down to half size it runs at over 60 fps. and yes, it is VERRY noticeable. also, i am a 3d developer, and my card takes BEYOND allot of abuse from the open cl/open gl drivers. to be honest for the 3d stuff im probably gunna see more benifit in OCd ram, but of course the gpu is still rather important. anyways, if that gives you some better information to go on, thank you for helping me

btw, what 3rd party gpu tweak you have in? reading from your system specs that u play bf3 with that high res, so i just guess that fps more than enogh. it might be helpful to bump your cpu clock to 4 to 4,2 ghz for at least 5 fps more than you got it now.

i mean a 3d party application, im actually using amd overdrive, not an add on to VCC, and im only playing bf3 at 1920x1080, at full screen it only runs around 30 fps and the bf3 gui cant handle it