Why does power control settings on CCC keep resetting?

[Aznboy1993]

Whenever I try to set the power control settings under the overdrive tab in CCC it somehow always resets itself after a few minutes back to the default 0% after I set it to 20%. Why is this? (I am using MSI Afterburner 2.2.0 Beta 2 to overclock my unlocked 6950 to 960/1500).

 

[pandemonium]

I'm confused. You're using both CCC and MSI Afterburner for your settings? You have to use one or the other.

 

[Aznboy1993]

I'm using Afterburner. I just have the power control settings setup in CCC b/c you can't do it in Afterburner. Is this a conflict of issue?

 

[tweakboy]

Because ATI/AMD are soo magical with their awesome ... cough cough drivers.


Now you have to do bunch of uninsatll and install blah blah. Let us know what happens.

 

[Arkadrel]

I'm confused. You're using both CCC and MSI Afterburner for your settings? You have to use one or the other.

^above,

You should use one or the other.
And MSI afterburner can adjust voltage for cards if that what you need.

@Tweakboy,

Another *cough* drivers *cough* jibb? really >_<'
This isnt a driver issue <.<

And the uninstall + reinstall, isnt gonna help when its not driver related (its a user that doesnt know what their doing with the afterburner software).


Also.... nvidias drivers are so good?

Bumpgate? Starcraft 2 (menus) killing video cards drivers?
Early 590 drivers in the retail boxes for the 590 (without funktioning OCP)?

When was the last time, you remember hearing that AMD made a faulty driver that killed a video card?

 

[Aznboy1993]

^above,

You should use one or the other.
And MSI afterburner can adjust voltage for cards if that what you need.

@Tweakboy,

Another *cough* drivers *cough* jibb? really >_<'
This isnt a driver issue <.<

And the uninstall + reinstall, isnt gonna help when its not driver related (its a user that doesnt know what their doing with the afterburner software).


Also.... nvidias drivers are so good?

Bumpgate? Starcraft 2 (menus) killing video cards drivers?
Early 590 drivers in the retail boxes for the 590 (without funktioning OCP)?

When was the last time, you remember hearing that AMD made a faulty driver that killed a video card?

aight! ill just use msi afterburner than. is there a way i can increase power draw from the card? (the power control settings on CCC where you can increase it to 20%)..or rather, what does that option actually do?

 

[Arkadrel]

http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index...age=9&slug=amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950

It determines at what wattage, your card throttles down.
So you can set the limit you want it to operate at, I believe.

Will it boost performance? only if you run into a situation where the card is useing more than your own set limit. There is a max of +20&#37; though... probably to stay within "ATX spec maximum".

I believe Anandtech mentions, only FurMark and Metro2033, are throttled down from Powertune at 0% (instead of +20%). And theres barely any noticeable effects in performance for Metro2033, so it mainly effects your "FurMark" performance.
(^ at stock clocks)

Exsample of how this "can" effect performance:
Crysis 6970 @200watts (-20%), 1920x1200 gives Anandtech 43.3 fps
Crysis 6970 @250watts (+0%), 1920x1200 gives Anandtech 51.5 fps

+20% wouldnt give anything extra here at stock clocks, because it doesnt hit the wall and throttle down in this game, from what I could make of Anandtechs artical.

PowerTune technology dynamically adjust the GPU core clock to keep the power draw within the TDP envelop. This is done on a frame basis, in other words PowerTune is a real time power draw management technology. PowerTune is implemented in the Cayman GPU.

As to why Afterburner turns off Powertune settings, when you use that, for overclocking? I have no idea.

Its a 3rd party tool though, its not something AMD made,... so for a "fix" you would probably need to get a MSI Afterburner version that supports it.


I found this thread:
http://www.overclock.net/ati/974870-hd-6950-power-control-msi-ab.html

found this User quote from thread:

Afterburner + PowerTune works fine on my unlocked Sapphire 6950
I restarted twice just to make sure the settings stuck on boot and they do.
I'm using Afterburner version 2.2.0 Beta 1

But I see your already useing "2.2.0 Beta 2" which should be a newer version... so I dont know.

 

[badb0y]

As long as the clocks aren't throttling there is nothing to worry about.

 

[Aznboy1993]

KK thanks for the responses guys! It was the MSI Afterburner unofficial overclocking that caused the problem. I turned it off and everything was ok. But is there a way to go past 950 core without enabling unofficial overclocking? (Reason I ask is because I need the power control to be at +20&#37; or my card throttles)