- Oct 16, 2014
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I have a question about MSI Afterburner, i'm using a Sapphire "Dual-X" r9 280 at stock speeds. Have "Cooler Master Elite 130" case and my CPU is Core i5-4430 (stock speeds).
Did a little testing earlier just randomly playing Skyrim and BF3 to get a "feel" for my GPU temps. In Skyrim i didn't do anything special, just hung around town killing guards and messing around for an hour or so - temps seemed pretty normal around 50-58C. In BF3 however i just did the first mission and my GPU hit as high as 68C. I had installed MSI Afterburner earlier so i was monitoring all these temps up to the upper left corner as i played. CPU temps seemed OK, they were around the upper 40's/low 50's thru both gaming sessions (i'm told this is within "normal" range).
Anyways, i exited BF3 and opened up MSI Afterburner found the following:
Core clock: 940 Mhz (???........ does Afterburner "automatically" overclock ur card to max clock?)
Memory clock: 1250 Mhz
Temp range min/max: 33/68
Fan speed maxed out at 37%, it's set to a "default" of 29%
With that background info out of the way, my question is:
I would like to experiment with "under-clocking" my card to hopefully make it run cooler......... i don't need *all* the horsepower anyways as i'm a light gamer. What i'm wondering about is, when you adjust the "core clock" rate do you ALSO have to adjust the "memory clock rate"?
I'm a TOTAL nub regarding altering hardware speeds/OC'ing/UC'ing/etc as i've always run things at stock speeds, so i thought i would play it safe and ask before doing anything.
Thanks in advance.
Did a little testing earlier just randomly playing Skyrim and BF3 to get a "feel" for my GPU temps. In Skyrim i didn't do anything special, just hung around town killing guards and messing around for an hour or so - temps seemed pretty normal around 50-58C. In BF3 however i just did the first mission and my GPU hit as high as 68C. I had installed MSI Afterburner earlier so i was monitoring all these temps up to the upper left corner as i played. CPU temps seemed OK, they were around the upper 40's/low 50's thru both gaming sessions (i'm told this is within "normal" range).
Anyways, i exited BF3 and opened up MSI Afterburner found the following:
Core clock: 940 Mhz (???........ does Afterburner "automatically" overclock ur card to max clock?)
Memory clock: 1250 Mhz
Temp range min/max: 33/68
Fan speed maxed out at 37%, it's set to a "default" of 29%
With that background info out of the way, my question is:
I would like to experiment with "under-clocking" my card to hopefully make it run cooler......... i don't need *all* the horsepower anyways as i'm a light gamer. What i'm wondering about is, when you adjust the "core clock" rate do you ALSO have to adjust the "memory clock rate"?
I'm a TOTAL nub regarding altering hardware speeds/OC'ing/UC'ing/etc as i've always run things at stock speeds, so i thought i would play it safe and ask before doing anything.
Thanks in advance.
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