Hello everyone,
Yesterday I've decited to play around a little with my bios settings, which resulted in a nice performance gaming boost
Below are my tuned bios settings. My card boots at 725/900. 3d speeds are set at 735/950 The ATI control panel had a limit of 720 Mhz for the core speed. I've downloaded the bios of the 3850 oc'ed edition and used that signature file to raise my overclocking headroom. I carefully tested my card at 720/950 first and it seemed to be performing well, so I felt comfortable using that signature file. Please note it's risky to just use a signature file of a faster card, because those clocks usually exceed the cards capability. Also you will be using a wrong device id in that case, so the driver won't detect your videocard. I've also raised the vgpu a little from 1.214v to 1.254v in 3d speeds. I was able to select that higher voltage in my bios. I've also increased the FAN percentage to make sure the gpu gets enough cooling.
I've tried a 3dmark03 run without pushing my cpu and ram too hard:
http://3dmark.com/3dm03/6416692
A very cool thing is that NFS Shift is now playable full screen 1900x1050 with AAx4 and AFx16 settings It's just a whole lot smoother. Before around stock speeds that was unbearable Tweaking my Windows installation by disabling unneeded services and start-up programs have also contributed to this.
Yesterday I've decited to play around a little with my bios settings, which resulted in a nice performance gaming boost
Below are my tuned bios settings. My card boots at 725/900. 3d speeds are set at 735/950 The ATI control panel had a limit of 720 Mhz for the core speed. I've downloaded the bios of the 3850 oc'ed edition and used that signature file to raise my overclocking headroom. I carefully tested my card at 720/950 first and it seemed to be performing well, so I felt comfortable using that signature file. Please note it's risky to just use a signature file of a faster card, because those clocks usually exceed the cards capability. Also you will be using a wrong device id in that case, so the driver won't detect your videocard. I've also raised the vgpu a little from 1.214v to 1.254v in 3d speeds. I was able to select that higher voltage in my bios. I've also increased the FAN percentage to make sure the gpu gets enough cooling.
I've tried a 3dmark03 run without pushing my cpu and ram too hard:
http://3dmark.com/3dm03/6416692
A very cool thing is that NFS Shift is now playable full screen 1900x1050 with AAx4 and AFx16 settings
It's just a whole lot smoother. Before around stock speeds that was unbearable Tweaking my Windows installation by disabling unneeded services and start-up programs have also contributed to this.
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