anyone familiar with afterburner?

[Al.Neri]

to get to the bottom of my GPU performance issues, someone on guru3d advised me to download and use afterburner. I have never used it before so I don't know what to do. they just gave some vague instructions to enable OSD and to show clock speed. I enabled it in the settings section, but nothing appears on screen.

how am I supposed to get the desired info from this?

[Al.Neri]

I'm having some problems with frame rates on certain games, as explained in this thread.

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums...rivers-to-12-8

after asking on numerous forums for help, I haven't managed to uncover the problem. I was advised to post about it at guru3d, and different people are suggesting different things, ranging from faulty hardware, to clock speeds being frozen at 100mhz.

I know I'm going to get the stock "give pcspecialist a call" replies, and I intent to, but I want to get as much information together as possible before calling. I don't want to be on the phone any longer than I have to. if I can get all the info together before calling, it will cut out any unnecessary time being wasted.

it has been suggested to me that I use afterburner to check certain things out, which I downloaded but couldn't figure out. I was also told to try gpu-z while running the game that was giving me problems, which gave me the follwing:



these numbers mean nothing to me to be honest, so I don't know if they are good or bad.

[Corfate]

Is it a problem with the clock speeds being too low? You could always download MSI Afterburner and manually bump the clock speeds up to their intended levels?

The other parts look fine though.

[Al.Neri]

that's what I'm trying to figure out, I don't know. I already downloaded afterburner, but I'm unsure of using it and I don't want to do anything that could potentially damage anything.

[Corfate]

You should have something that looks like this:



Slide the core clock and memory clock to your desired amount, click save, click profile 1, then apply.

You can also change the fan speed if you want, but i leave it to do it's own thing.

[tom_gr7]

Dont change anything using afterburner,

wht gpu do you have?

[tom_gr7]

Have you tried rolling back your gpu drivers?

Dont jump in and change gpu clock speeds or nothing, will likely make it worse mate. OR even blow ya gpu if ya dont know wht ya doing, I'd be very cautious using it in that way.

let me just get this straight, ya updated ya drivers and the frame rates dropped?

also can ya post up ya spec?

[Al.Neri]

Dont change anything using afterburner,

wht gpu do you have?

radeon hd 5970

Have you tried rolling back your gpu drivers?

Dont jump in and change gpu clock speeds or nothing, will likely make it worse mate. OR even blow ya gpu if ya dont know wht ya doing, I'd be very cautious using it in that way.

let me just get this straight, ya updated ya drivers and the frame rates dropped?

also can ya post up ya spec?

yeah, I have. I have gone back and forth between 12.8 & 12.6 more times than I care to remember, and I can't be bothered doing it again anytime soon. the frame rate dropped after updating to 12.8 for the first time.

Case
COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Six Core Processor i7-970 (3.20GHz) 6.4GTs/12MB Cache
Motherboard
ASUS® RAMPAGE III EXTREME: 3-Way SLI & CrossFireX, SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0
Memory (RAM)
12GB KINGSTON HYPER-X TRI-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (6 x 2GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5970 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
120GB OCZ VERTEX 2 SATA II 2.5" SSD (upto 285MB/sR | 275MB/sW)
2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£88)
Power Supply
CORSAIR 1200W MODULAR PSU (AX1200) PRO SERIES 80+ GOLD (£206)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO C240 A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£102)
Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium PCI Express (£59)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Firewire
1 x IEEE 1394a FIREWIRE PORT ONBOARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£109)

[tom_gr7]

I'd uninstall the whole gpu, then clean download/install of the latest drivers.

If you still have the problem, i'd call pcs, it may be faulty and require replacing.

[Al.Neri]

already unistalled/reinstalled drivers numerous times. I will call them, but like I said, I want to explore all possibilities before I do.