Explain ATITool - sit back and let it do the work while tv watching?

[ITPaladin]

How do I work this thing? Should I instead be doing the long-winded overclocking way like a CPU/MB by raising one while lowering the other?

I have a Connect3D x800 gto unlocked but not oc yet.

 

[TecHNooB]

There's an option that allows for you (or atitool rather) to find the max GPU and MEM. Run both and find a balance Or just find the max GPU. Drop the freq by 5 once you find the maximum to avoid artifacting.

 

[ITPaladin]

I take it there is no danger in letting it do the work for you as long as you are in the room? Is there an alarm you can set?
How long does it take to do it on its own? Faster than if you did it yourself?

 

[jiffylube1024]

Why don't you just try it and find out?

Basically it ups the clockspeed itself in small incriments (5MHz or less, I forget) and tests each setting for like 15-20 seconds or so. You can either let it o/c itself (the long way) or choose some o/c point you know or are pretty sure is stable and use that as a starting off point.

There's no danger in letting it run when you're in the room. The worst that will happen is the PC will crash (happens sometimes when overclocking the core to the max, which like I said will take awhile if you're doing it the long way), or artifact (memory).

Even if your screen turns to garbled nonsense, a reboot will cure what ails ya .

 

[ITPaladin]

Testing shows it is not consistent. I started a thread on the powerup forum about this.
One hour shows 475, then I underclock the CPU and run the test again for core and get only 441.