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2 days ago i played with CCC for the first time...

first i manually controlled the fan.. via CCC.. got it to 40%... and then.. i never idled at high 70 Cs anymore!

then i decided to run crysis warhead.. played @ windowed mode..

i raised the fan up to 85% just to try it out.. then for 10 mins i played..

then i thought about overclocking it.. i slowly increased the GPU clock by 10s.. and then play around the alt+tabbed Crysis Warhead.. hoping to see artifacts but nothing happened.. i maxed it out eventually.. 790Mhz.. and same with the Memory Clock.. 1100Mhz i played for an hour on such a setting

the next day.. i tried benchmarking with Crysis benchmark tool.. then i get sudden fps drops at certain points..

example.. always.. on one area.. when i look at that are in 1st person mode (duh).. i get sudden fps drops.. (from 12-16 then suddenly ~3-6) then when i look to another area.. (Nomad was still standing still).. i get back to my normal FPS..

(DX 10 64bit, fullscreen, fsaa=2, all very high)

i dont remember this happening before tho..

my lowest fps before is somewhere around ~8 FPS but now dropped to even 2!

im gonna try again and see if its still like that..

tried less demanding than crysis games: assassins creed, fallout 3.. nothing negative that i could notice tho..

anyone had this similar prob? sorry to bother..

Djghost454

Would need to know your rig's specs, you can edit that in the user CP link @ the top of the page, other than that, it's crysis, it's supposed to lag.

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thanks.. imma edit it later..

but for now..

Phenom 9950 BE
K9a2 Platinum V1 (790FX + SB600)
Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066Mhz
4870 512mb
650 PSU (antec truepowertrio)

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oh.. i guess.. but i think i get random drop of frame rates.. might be something running in my windows background?

im gonna try and play again..

so its just safe for me to max the GPU and Memory Clocks? @ 85% fan?

TDN1979

I don't think it was CCC. I maxed it out and the GPU didn't even break a sweat. Check your processes and make sure that there isn't something running in the background that is killing it.

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oh.. i kinda got scared when i maxed it out.. oh just to re assure myself (sorry im really scared).. could u tell me again that its safe to max the GPU and Mem Clocks.. and nothing bad happens?

TDN1979

Anything "can" happen, but when I had my 4870, I was able to max it out, and then stress the crap out of it and it never went above 70c. If yours got really hot, then it may have damaged it, but I'm sure that you will find that it's software related.

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so i guess im fine then.. GPU 790 Mhz and Mem Clock 1100Mhz and never gets to mid 60 Cs

how do u test it anyway? i just play crysis windowed mode.. (1920x1080 DX10 all very high and no AA)