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Catalyst Control Center or just driver?

lathode

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I'm going to be running Win7 Beta on the system in my sig once it's built. Should I install CCC or just the drivers? I think the main thing that annoys me is that it installs VC++ and it sticks a file on my D partition. I think the workaround is kinda lame and i'm not sure if it actually corrects the issue. (moving the file and then running a command to register the .dll).So is there something better than the CCC? I figure there must be a reason why they offer the driver independantly from CCC.
 
Same here. Never been a fan of CCC, and the 790mhz limit on overclocking my HD4870 was the last straw.
 
Same here. Never been a fan of CCC, and the 790mhz limit on overclocking my HD4870 was the last straw.

What brand? My Asus DK doesn't have that limitation in CCC.

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The Asus bios is the only one I know of that exceeds the 790 mhz limit. To answer your question I have a HIS 4870.
 
Same here. Never been a fan of CCC, and the 790mhz limit on overclocking my HD4870 was the last straw.

The Asus bios is the only one I know of that exceeds the 790 mhz limit. To answer your question I have a HIS 4870.

Then CCC is obviously not the problem.

On a side note, I had my card running stable as high as 815/1060 - I ran FC2 benchmark before and after and gained only 3 FPS average. Makes me wonder why people even bother.
 
Then CCC is obviously not the problem.

On a side note, I had my card running stable as high as 815/1060 - I ran FC2 benchmark before and after and gained only 3 FPS average. Makes me wonder why people even bother.

Average fps may not appear to go up much, but I have seen less drops in minimum fps.
In my experience, overclocking reduced these dips. But as you stated, avg fps don't scale up so well with the overclock.
 
Then CCC is obviously not the problem.

On a side note, I had my card running stable as high as 815/1060 - I ran FC2 benchmark before and after and gained only 3 FPS average. Makes me wonder why people even bother.

Well unfortunately for me it is a problem, unless I go the flash route and use an Asus bios. Only problem there is I'd still need CCC or ATT to switch to 3d clocks. If it did it automatic like what I'm used to with nvidia I probably would flash.
 
I don't understand, can't you edit the bios and flash your own custom clock settings? And voltages? And fan profiles?
That's the whole point of editing the bios, after all.
 
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