unlocking my 4870

danneth said:

skunksmash said:

there's certainly an issue here..... if it was a 2D downclock i'd think it to be lower than 600mhz (there's nothing on the web about a 4870 being that speed @ idle or load)

& even if im wrong & that IS the 2D downclock, it should revert as soon as stressed back up to 3D numbers....

how long have you had the card, is there a warranty..??

had the card around 2 months now, so will still be in warranty ye

have you tried the new 9.12 drivers, that might be your last ditch attempt to try & rectify the problem.

if that dont work i'd give the vendor a ring explaining the situation, tell them all the apps you've used to monitor the clocks.... see what they have to say about it.

they'll ask for it back to test, but they'll have the same results no doubt....& you'll get a new one.

stormy13 said:

Could very well be a software issue. Here is what Afterburner shows for my 4830,



Notice what it shows for the core in the graph?

lol....... your seems to go the other way , when you stress the card stormy does it revert to 575mhz..??

danneth said:

yes mate ive got the latest drivers

afterburner is showing 8.14 cat drivers in the pic above..??

EDIT: i see the driver code matches eventhough its not showing 9.12

before you ring the vendor let me do a little more digging into this 2D issue, b/c eventhough in my experience the 2D clocks are usually lower stormy is only showing a 25mhz drop to 2D..

so....there is a chance 600mhz IS the 2D speed, but there's a S/W problem preventing 750mhz being shown in real time..

danneth said:

Hey guys,

i have a xfx 4870 1024mb im trying to overclock it even though i have done it with the CCC overdrive its still showing stock clocks in cpu-z done quite abit of reading and it seems i have to flash the bios? but ive been searching for quite a while now with no joy

anyone help me out on this one???

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not as knowledgeable as the others, imo, but from what i've read and seen in your screen shot, the problem with gpu-z not showing your clocks correct (sensor tab) seems to be that the app is running in the background, or should i say: there is a check box at the bottom that reads "Continue refreshing this screen while GPU-Z is in the background." i ran some 3d games and monitored gpu-z in the process--nothing happened. however, when i checked the box and ran a game, gpu-z showed the clocks increasing when the game starting and going back to min-levels when the game stopped.

i hope i'm not stepping on anyone's toes (or am i not in the same ballpark with respect to what the problem is?)

also, it was stated that the card was successfully o.c.'d with ccc--how does everything work with the card running at stock clocks?