ATI Catalyst 8.2

[piebobs71]

macpegg is your rig overclocked at all? yours is nearly the same as mine except for the mobo and vista 64 and i only get 12k with nearly everything running stock speeds. havnt tried o/cing the gfx cards yet

 

[Bytor]

macpegg,

I wish I could hit 14000. Was dicking around today and scored my highest at 13958...

 

[piebobs71]

see when your overclocking in crossfire whats the procedure? do you do both cards or just 1 and it auto changes the other?

also i just watched a small instructional video on how to setup crossfire i didnt know i needed 2 of the little connecter cables ive only got 1 on just now ,how much of a difference will that make?

 

[Bytor]

I overclock both cards. I do wish CCC would allow you to move the slider bar 1 number at a time, instead of every 5 or so.

Yes one cable comes with every card for crossfire.

 

[Dr. Spankenstein]

I have been waiting for a AtiTrayTool version to be compatible with these 3800 series cards. Not for the above reason, but there are a lot of driver optimizations you can adjust manually instead of dumbly enabling Cat A.I.
This app will also provide a finer adjustment of the core/mem speeds. (Although this is just an illusion, as there are set steps that it has to follow.)

Check with RivaTuner next time you OC your card in CCC. It will only move in 13MHz increments on the core, I'm unsure about the spacing on the mem clocks.

Also Byto & piebobs71, check my Crossfire thread. You might gain some points if you install you CF according to the instructions.

@ piebobs,

Once you have CF enabled in CCC, on the Overdrive tab you have a drop-down that let's you select each card and OC them separately.

 

[Bytor]

Dr. Spankenstein,

Could you link to the thread your talking about..

Thanks

I'm using ATI Tools 0.27 with no problems.

 

[piebobs71]

im assuming you have to o/c them to the same degree? you cant have 1 at 800/1200 and the other at 825/1246 or something like that.

 

[Bytor]

Some of the bench runs I clock the bottom card higher than the top.

 

[eidairaman1]

See If Riva Tuner has been updated, that or Rage3D tweak
http://translate.google.com/transla...refox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=vQO

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4569.html
current beta

I have been waiting for a AtiTrayTool version to be compatible with these 3800 series cards. Not for the above reason, but there are a lot of driver optimizations you can adjust manually instead of dumbly enabling Cat A.I.
This app will also provide a finer adjustment of the core/mem speeds. (Although this is just an illusion, as there are set steps that it has to follow.)

Check with RivaTuner next time you OC your card in CCC. It will only move in 13MHz increments on the core, I'm unsure about the spacing on the mem clocks.

Also Byto & piebobs71, check my Crossfire thread. You might gain some points if you install you CF according to the instructions.

@ piebobs,

Once you have CF enabled in CCC, on the Overdrive tab you have a drop-down that let's you select each card and OC them separately.

 

[piebobs71]

@Dr. Spankenstein ive spent a good few hours today cleaning up wires and reinstalling my cards the way you say in that thread about crossfire and ive gained 400 points(well maybe more as ive less of an o/c on the cpu and ram now),not totally sure where the gain has come from could be the setup could be some reg tweaks i did last night could be the fact im using 2 of the crossfire bridge connectors instead of 1 but 1 thing still remains which im thinking a format is needed to sort ,im not 100% sure whats going on but my desktop only has 3 things on it my computer,bin and a sony phone thing,but if i create a shortcut,new txt file new folder anything they get duplicated and for the life of me i cant figure out why

 

[JFITZ]

looks like the AGP problem still exists in the drivers, looks like they are shafting users of the 3850 and lower for AGP support, cause 8.1s suck.

Yeah i went ahead and downloaded the lastest driver for my 3870 and I've been having problems running any games. I uninstalled the 8.2 and reinstalled msi's drivers that it came with.

 

[macpegg]

I`ll do another 3dmark test when i get home. and attach a screen shot. i got 14061 last time i did it, without o.c the cpu or gfx cards. But i do attach a seperate power supply provided by thermeltake which fits into one of my drive bays to feed the 2nd card, to leviate the pressure on my 650W psu, untill i get myself a 1000w + psu.

 

[Wile E]

I have been waiting for a AtiTrayTool version to be compatible with these 3800 series cards. Not for the above reason, but there are a lot of driver optimizations you can adjust manually instead of dumbly enabling Cat A.I.

If you disable hardware control, ATT still works for driver tweaks if you pick up the latest Beta.