My current system:
AMD Phenom X4 750K
600 W Thermaltake PSU
HD 5850 Sapphire GPU
MSI A78M-E45 Mobo
HP 2311x Monitor
9 GB of RAM
I just recently upgraded my old GTS 250 with a cheap HD5850. I decided to overclock the HD after installing in order to get more juice from the card.
I used MSI Afterburner, HEAVEN and GPU-Z as I overclocked. Like I read in numerous guides, I uped the core clock by 10 every time and benchmarked it to test for artifacts, glitches, etc. Nothing presented itself at all. The default core clock is 765. After about 800, I noticed no FPS increase whatsoever but it still performed fine.
Figuring I had hit a bottleneck of some sort, I went to overclock my CPU. Using AMD's OverDrive, I used the Auto Clock (Worst mistake ever) and waited for it to work.
Now, when benchmarking through Heaven, the FPS is very low but the "game" itself is going through everything quickly. Its like on turbo speed and choppiness is everywhere.
Oddly enough, videos still play fine on the computer. Im about to go check an actual game to see if anything is odd there. What could be going wrong?
AMD Phenom X4 750K
600 W Thermaltake PSU
HD 5850 Sapphire GPU
MSI A78M-E45 Mobo
HP 2311x Monitor
9 GB of RAM
I just recently upgraded my old GTS 250 with a cheap HD5850. I decided to overclock the HD after installing in order to get more juice from the card.
I used MSI Afterburner, HEAVEN and GPU-Z as I overclocked. Like I read in numerous guides, I uped the core clock by 10 every time and benchmarked it to test for artifacts, glitches, etc. Nothing presented itself at all. The default core clock is 765. After about 800, I noticed no FPS increase whatsoever but it still performed fine.
Figuring I had hit a bottleneck of some sort, I went to overclock my CPU. Using AMD's OverDrive, I used the Auto Clock (Worst mistake ever) and waited for it to work.
Now, when benchmarking through Heaven, the FPS is very low but the "game" itself is going through everything quickly. Its like on turbo speed and choppiness is everywhere.
Oddly enough, videos still play fine on the computer. Im about to go check an actual game to see if anything is odd there. What could be going wrong?