Teach me... X1900XTX and CCC tips...

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I am used to my old X800XT with the regular control panel, never liked the command center. Now the X1900XTX only has the command center.

What do I need to set, how do I overclock and why does the ccc report the thing running at 500 MHz? I assume it speeds up in 3D mode.

So...I was thinking is there a tool I can use instead of the command center, like rad tabs. Do rad tabs work with X1900XTX drivers?

Also, a question, on 3DMark06, I have an Opteron 175 dual core CPU, I ran the bench before installing the new card and the scores, well, sucked...but the CPU score was 1632. Then I installed the X1900XTX, ran 3DMark06 again, CPU score is now 1568 (opver all score is much higher though)

Why would my CPU score go down because of changing video cards? Is the video card sucking the life out of the CPU? Is it possibly the nvidia drivers making better use of dual core CPU's than the ATi driver?


Thoughts?
 
there is hardly anything out there that supports the card ,

give it a few months ,

the 2d clocks are 500/600

there is a ati overdrive if you want to overclock your card now ,

you will prabably need to manually adjust the fanspeed to run @ 90% all the time while gaming when overclocking ,otherwise the card will overheat and crash .
 
Scores can fluctuate. I would say the change in your score is well within the range that a score can differ under different conditions.
 
I did the oc detection in overdrive. It set OC to 689/798.
I played fear for the last hour or so and had no problems, the card doesn't seem to get too hot and the fan doesn't spin up to the point of making noise.

I guess I'll keep it. :)
 
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