Overclocking

[VitalBlindFury]

I just got my XFX Double Dissipation HD 7970 card and I want to get a little more performance out of it. What programs do I use to overclock and how do I actually overclock it? Do I just use a program or do I have to do some practical stuff.

Thanks,

[Clifford]

AMD has their own control panel and there's also MSI Afterburner which is probably the easiest off all the programs I've used. You can also manually tweak your settings in the BIOS.

[VitalBlindFury]

Is there a tutorial I can go through to help me overclock?

[SAV1OUR]

you have to use the drivers, as far as over clocking it up the memory bit by bit seeing how much you can get away with. if it gets to a point that it crashes up the voltage and make sure that you have your fans running at a good speed eg 75%-100% because over clocking will sadly make a bit of noise and will get a bit hot. best of luck 

[SAV1OUR]

Is there a tutorial I can go through to help me overclock?

my last post will help 

[Clifford]

To be honest it's really just a couple of sliders left and right. You wanna drag it toward the higher number for more of a performance boost.

[Clifford]

Right click desktop -> Catalyst Control Center -> Performance -> AMD Overdrive -> Enable Graphics Overdrive -> Start tweaking the settings.

 

Make sure you download all the latest drivers as mentioned above to get the most performance out of all your games.

[Volbet]

I would recommend using MSi Afterburner, but you can use CCC

My guide as always is:

• Increase core clock by 10-20MHz
• Test for stability by using either Unigin Heaven or a graphics heavy game (Metro: Last Light, Battlefield 4, Crysis 3 ect)
• If stable, repeat
• If unstable, increase core voltage with 5Mv (Might not be an option for your graphics card)
• Repeat untill you hit a temeprature of 90C on the GPU
• If you want to you can overclock the memory, but it doesnøt really make any difference
• Increase the memory clock with 25-50MHz
• Test for stability (See step 2),
• Repeat untill you hit instability, and then scale back to the last stable setting 

[Bloodkil933]

If you want to do fine tweaking I would say MSI Afterburner, but the AMD Catalyst Control Center overclocking would do fine, up to you of course thought. I would personally use MSI Afterburner for the voltage tweak as well.