Powerplay and Eyefinity

[gbeirn]

So I finally got my 5850 in today after having my 3 monitors and Display Port adapter for several weeks. Once it was all setup I realized my power consumption when way up (as measured by my APC UPS). After digging around the Internet for a bit it appears that Powerplay doesn't clock down the card (RAM especially) as far as it would if you only had a single display. Anyone else notice this or have any suggestions on how to lower the power usage?


Right now according to GPU-Z the RAM stays at 1000MHz and the core at 400MHz. Could editing the BIOS possibly change this at all? I guess it isn't too horrible but I wish there was a review somewhere that stated that this would happen.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Is there any possible way to quickly switch from a single display (for web browsing, etc.) to Eyefinity mode (for gaming)?
Thanks!

 

[happy medium]

Those clocks are right. Any lower and it will start to crash on the desktop and when watching flash video. I think this was the hot fix.

 

[Ualdayan]

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Is there any possible way to quickly switch from a single display (for web browsing, etc.) to Eyefinity mode (for gaming)?
Thanks!

Set all your settings to the single display settings you want, then create a profile for it and hotkey it. Then do the same for Eyefinity.

I use ALT-E to go into eyefinity mode, and ALT-R to exit for example.

 

[gbeirn]

Thanks! Thats exactly what I was looking for. I would like to save the power when possible since I will only be using Eyefinity for a few hours a week.