How do you go about OC'n an XFX R7850?

[mlah384]

I know it's probably a newb question, but how do you overclock an XFX R7850? What software/program do you use? Or do you do it through mobo bios?

Thanks

 

[cmdrdredd]

MSI Afterburner works with AMD or Nvidia GPUs from any vendor.

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/overview.htm

 

[mlah384]

Thx! So really all I do is set it to 1050mhz and leave everything else as is then click Apply?

 

[cmdrdredd]

If that's what you want to try, yes that's it. It can monitor temps, fan speeds, set a custom fan profile, monitor voltage, memory usage etc. You can enable an overlay in your games with the clock speeds, how much memory it's using, what the gpu usage is, how fast the fan is running, your temps, and an fps counter.

Really a fantastic program.

I recommend running Uniengine Heaven DX11 benchmark in a loop. Just start it up and set tessellation to extreme and turn on AF and AA and let it run for a while. If it doesn't crash in that it's usually pretty stable.

 

[psolord]

Isn't the 78XX series suffering from the need to edit the .cfg file in MSI Afterburner's installation folder with that silly text, as well as the missing .dll files from Catalyst 12.4 onwards, that do not allow clocks to be freely changed?