Taking control of my 4850's power consumption

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noinimod

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So.. i got this card (asus 4850) a few days back and i'm loving the performance. I did, as per kyle's guide, take control of my fan speed too..
But i can't see why i need my card to run at 500/750 idle when i'm surfing the web/watching movies

I've tried flashing my bios to the various bios-es which idle at 160/500, but it doesn't work for me and i went through hell to get it back to normal. Then i tried RBE-ing my original bios, but for some reason, the card gives artifacts when i'm in windows.
So now i'm stuck with the 500/750 idle speeds. I wonder why ati doesn't allow us to underclock it man

Anyone with possible solutions?
 
noinimod, you could try using Rivatuner. it may allow you to underclock your videocard to your liking. you can also set a custom overclocking profile using Rivatuner. Hope this helps
 
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually have the rivatuner setup file lying around, but i was afraid it would clash with the CCC so i didn't install it
 
should be ok, as long as you disable overclocking in the ccc..

have it installed myself no problems
also there is a new version of rivatuner out ... version 2.20.
 
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