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Powercolor Troubles -- Maybe!?!?

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dmonkey

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I've just received my Powercolor OEM X1900XT from newegg - link here

Well I installed the Omega 3.8.231 driver based on the 6.3 catalyst driver. I opened up the control panel and it says that the card is clocked at 500 core 600 memory.

!?!??!?! My GPU seems to be a full 125 mhz underclocked on the core and 250 mhz underclocked on memory!

I then downloaded ATI Tool .25 and checked the clocks, same result. I tried opening ATI Tray tools to check it there too, and it said it couldn't retrieve info from my bios.

I have a nForce 4 ultra d and a san diego 3700 with 2gb G.Skill memory. Is this a problem with my setup or is my card really this badly underclocked? I tried overclocking it to "stock" speeds but I got pretty bad artifacting and the GPU just shuts off. Is my computer detecting my speed wrong or is my card a dud?

As always thanks ahead of time!
 
It's been discussed countless times. It clocks down in 2D mode to conserve energy and lower heat output.
 
When your card isn't running a 3D application it clocks down to 2D speeds to conserve energy. There's nothing wrong with it, don't worry about it.
 
and when it clocks up, it increases the gpu voltage too, hence the problems clocking up at stock 2d voltage
 
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