GPU doesnt overclock? Or just a software issue..

[SpagettiNinja]

This is not my own PC, it is my friends. Anyways. 

 

He has a Radeon HD 7850. Stock speeds are 1050 MHz Core and 1250 MHz Memory.

 

We decided we wanted to try and overclock it a little bit and see if it would perform any better.

 

So anyways, the problem is, i tried several overclocking software (AMD Overdrive, MSI Afterburner, Sapphire TriXX) and none of them seem to work. For example when doing something like +10 MHz on the core or memory, it says obviously that it did so in the program, and GPU-Z also verifies that the clocks are higher. However, both in Valley and Heaven the clocks dont change. No matter how much you change the clocks. It might of course be that those programs dont register it correctly, but all other things do, and they seem to know how much the stock clocks are. Im not sure what the issue is, so i thought i would ask here..

 

Does anyone know what the problem here is?

[CoolaxGaming]

Yes! I had the same problem!

Dude, I asked and I could not figure out. I had a Gigabyte HD 7850 and it didnt Overclock. I updated its bios, AMD drivers nothing worked.

But then Catalyst Omega came! I downloaded the driver, launched MSI afterburner. Then I overclocked and it worked fine! I even tried it on older drivers but none worked.

Try the Omga

[SpagettiNinja]

Yes! I had the same problem!

Dude, I asked and I could not figure out. I had a Gigabyte HD 7850 and it didnt Overclock. I updated its bios, AMD drivers nothing worked.

But then Catalyst Omega came! I downloaded the driver, launched MSI afterburner. Then I overclocked and it worked fine! I even tried it on older drivers but none worked.

Try the Omga

I actually saw your thread when i searched for it on google. Was surprised you had no reactions. Looking like i wont get many either.. Anyways, i have the newest drivers. Downloaded them 2 days ago.

[CoolaxGaming]

I actually saw your thread when i searched for it on google. Was surprised you had no reactions. Looking like i wont get many either.. Anyways, i have the newest drivers. Downloaded them 2 days ago.

Huh, try this, it may sound dumb but... Uninstall the latest driver. Install 14.9 thne uninstall that then install the latest driver... Thats the last you can try. 

[SpagettiNinja]

Huh, try this, it may sound dumb but... Uninstall the latest driver. Install 14.9 thne uninstall that then install the latest driver... Thats the last you can try. 

 

Heh, guess what.. i tried. But i couldnt find the 14.9 driver and i just gave up, so after uninstalling all drivers, i just reinstalled the 14.12. And right now.. it works

[CoolaxGaming]

Heh, guess what.. i tried. But i couldnt find the 14.9 driver and i just gave up, so after uninstalling all drivers, i just reinstalled the 14.12. And right now.. it works

Great!

[Clarkey]

Unigine is just terrible at telling clockspeed tbh. Its currently telling me my 780ti is running at 1500mhz 300mhz higher than it actually is.

[xAcid9]

Sometime if there's a flash video running hidden in background the clock refused to change. I recall i need to close Origin and Steam a couple of times because the clock won't change. 

 

Unigine is just terrible at telling clockspeed tbh. Its currently telling me my 780ti is running at 1500mhz 300mhz higher than it actually is.

Only on Nvidia card with GPU boost.

[SpagettiNinja]

Now the GPU benchmark in Aida64 is showing the wrong speed. It says the stock speed instead of the overclocked speed on the GPU. It does see the overclocked speed of my CPU though. Valley still agrees with my overclocking software though, and shows the overclocked speed. Which is correct and which is wrong here?

 

@CoolaxGaming @xAcid9

[xAcid9]

Use GPU-Z or MSI Aftterburner. AIDA GPGPU benchmark show default clock speed.

[SpagettiNinja]

Use GPU-Z or MSI Aftterburner. AIDA GPGPU benchmark show default clock speed.

Ah, ok. I was confused there for a moment. GPU-Z and Afterburner, as well as TriXX that i used to overclock show the overclocked speeds. So i guess im good

[CoolaxGaming]

Yup youre good. Only, only trust the sensors on MSI AB and GPU-Z

[Spev]

Don't trust Valley or what they say. Should always go by GPU-z or something. Valley doesn't register that stuff well. Are you at least seeing a higher score in valley after you overclocked it?

[SpagettiNinja]

Don't trust Valley or what they say. Should always go by GPU-z or something. Valley doesn't register that stuff well. Are you at least seeing a higher score in valley after you overclocked it?

 

Actually i just gave up on whole the overclocking thing. The graphics drivers kept acting up and i got some artifacting in games even at a pretty minimal overclock. At default clock speeds everything seems to be fine. so i'll just live with those. I dont think an overclock would have made much difference anyways.

[TheMcSame]

Unigine is just terrible at telling clockspeed tbh. Its currently telling me my 780ti is running at 1500mhz 300mhz higher than it actually is.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Currently working on an OC and heaven was saying that my GPU was running at 1627 mhz (~127 high than it was).