Question on new ATi

[Aganerral]

OK, been a while since I was running an ATI card on my game system so haven't paid much attention to how the clock speed functions. But I installed a new X1900XTX (couldn't resist the new lower price) and in Windows the catalyst control center shows:

Current GPU Speed: 500
Current RAM speed: 594

If I go to the ATI Overdrive page, it reads:

Graphic Processor Status:
Requested = 641
Current VPU Clock = 500
Temperature = 38 C

Graphics Memory
Requested = 774
Current Memory Clock = 594

So is this the card underclocking itself because I'm in windows 2D mode and I should expect it to clock up once I start using 3D apps?

 

[JC634]

OK, been a while since I was running an ATI card on my game system so haven't paid much attention to how the clock speed functions. But I installed a new X1900XTX (couldn't resist the new lower price) and in Windows the catalyst control center shows:

Current GPU Speed: 500
Current RAM speed: 594

If I go to the ATI Overdrive page, it reads:

Graphic Processor Status:
Requested = 641
Current VPU Clock = 500
Temperature = 38 C

Graphics Memory
Requested = 774
Current Memory Clock = 594

So is this the card underclocking itself because I'm in windows 2D mode and I should expect it to clock up once I start using 3D apps?

Yep. Just make you "unlock" it.

 

[Aganerral]

Thanks I had replaced the cooler with a Zalman VF900 (stock one sounded like a hair dryer!) and was afraid I'd screwed it up somehow

 

[Anavel0]

Lol this is a common question. I think ATI should put waring stickers on the boxes.

 

[PWMK2]

Lol this is a common question. I think ATI should put waring stickers on the boxes.

Well, thing is, not many people bother to check the GPU / memory speeds for their video cards...