Hi,
after reading about the "overclockability" of this card, plus the ability to unlock 4 extra pipelines i decided i would buy one and try it out for myself. I removed the stock cooler and made sure that the core was an r480. i cleaned the thermal compound from the gpu and memory and correctly fitted a new "artic silencer" cooler. Using ATiTool i discovered that this particular card had infact shipped with all 16 pipelines unlocked, so no bios flash was necessary. i then let ATiTool try to automatically find my optimal core clock speed. however at about 540mhz my PC stopped responding and i got the infinate loop BSOD
after i re-set i managed to set the core and memory frequency to 520/540 respectivley. For a while everything seemed to be running stable and my core temp never rose above 60, but sure enough after an hour or 2 i get the same infinite loop BSOD and have to restart my PC. i then decided to return clocks to the default 400/490 settings. still i get sporadic lockups and BSOD's (this happens in windows as well as 3d app's and games). So i uninstall and reinstall my video drivers... same problem. Im using the latest catalyst drivers, mobo chipset drivers are upto date, im pretty sure my card is not overheating (never seems to exceed 60C), and there are no graphical "glitches" or "artifacts" whilst im playing games etc... just the random lockups and infinite loop BSOD's.
would damaged gpu's/memory cause this? or this more likely to be being caused by some sort of software/driver conflict?
any help would be appreciated
after reading about the "overclockability" of this card, plus the ability to unlock 4 extra pipelines i decided i would buy one and try it out for myself. I removed the stock cooler and made sure that the core was an r480. i cleaned the thermal compound from the gpu and memory and correctly fitted a new "artic silencer" cooler. Using ATiTool i discovered that this particular card had infact shipped with all 16 pipelines unlocked, so no bios flash was necessary. i then let ATiTool try to automatically find my optimal core clock speed. however at about 540mhz my PC stopped responding and i got the infinate loop BSOD
after i re-set i managed to set the core and memory frequency to 520/540 respectivley. For a while everything seemed to be running stable and my core temp never rose above 60, but sure enough after an hour or 2 i get the same infinite loop BSOD and have to restart my PC. i then decided to return clocks to the default 400/490 settings. still i get sporadic lockups and BSOD's (this happens in windows as well as 3d app's and games). So i uninstall and reinstall my video drivers... same problem. Im using the latest catalyst drivers, mobo chipset drivers are upto date, im pretty sure my card is not overheating (never seems to exceed 60C), and there are no graphical "glitches" or "artifacts" whilst im playing games etc... just the random lockups and infinite loop BSOD's.would damaged gpu's/memory cause this? or this more likely to be being caused by some sort of software/driver conflict?
any help would be appreciated
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