I am new to the Catalyst Control center. I have the basic settings down, I was able to make the screen fit my HDTV etc. Allhough I am confused about the CPU power settings. Is it ok to turn the slider all the way right using 3700 Mhz? Also what can I do to get the most out of this card?
Raedon HD7900 series card user here. A friend built me this computer and I want to play games with best settings possible.
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Do NOT and I repeat, do NOT simply turn the slider over to 3700 Mhz. Let me put it this way: the record overclock for a GTX 980 is like 2200 MHz and that's with exotic cooling. Overclocking is done with *small* increments with testing for stability each step of the way. What you're proposing to do is the equivalent of seeing if you can max out your car's speedometer in a parking garage.
Here's one of the many guides that discuss how to overclock your GPU.
https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/wiki/gpu/general
Here's one of the many guides that discuss how to overclock your GPU.
https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/wiki/gpu/general
Well it has been that way ( slider all the way to the right) for 6 months now. But you know more than me so I just turned it all the way down left to 1000 something Mhz.
I do not want to over clock anything. I just want the best settings using the AMD Catalyst control center.
I do not want to over clock anything. I just want the best settings using the AMD Catalyst control center.
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Are you mixing up the CPU and GPU? AFAIK there's no setting in the CCC that allows 3.7GHz for anything.
Not every game likes settings to be made in the CCC, it's usually best to select each one per game, for example setting AA to 4X globally won't hurt too many older games but will savagely effect ones like AC Unity or FC4.
Not every game likes settings to be made in the CCC, it's usually best to select each one per game, for example setting AA to 4X globally won't hurt too many older games but will savagely effect ones like AC Unity or FC4.
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I'm increasingly confused - I believe now he's referring to the CPU power setting in CCC, which is what you see when you have an integrated in there rather than a discrete card (just double-checked, my laptop has an AMD APU and I see that setting and my desktop has a 7970 and does not).
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I'm actually starting to wonder if his friend built him an A10-7850K built that also has a discrete 7900-series GPU installed that he's not actually using. Only way I can think of that he's seeing the CPU power in CCC and it's on the right at 3700 MHz (though perhaps I'm wrong).
Original poster, I think we're going to need a lot more information about your PC as we still know next-to-nothing about its configuration.
Original poster, I think we're going to need a lot more information about your PC as we still know next-to-nothing about its configuration.
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From what you're describing, it doesn't appear you're even using the discrete GPU you say you have in the header. As I know nothing about your computer and you're not very forthcoming with any kind of information, I am not able to give you additional assistance.
Graphics Card Manufacturer Powered by AMD
Graphics Chipset AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Device ID 6798
Vendor ID 1002
Subsystem ID 2775
Subsystem Vendor ID 1462
Graphics Bus Capability PCI Express 2.0
Maximum Bus Setting PCI Express 2.0 x16
BIOS Version 015.042.000.000
BIOS Part Number 113-C3865000-O77
BIOS Date 2013/12/04
Memory Size 3072 MB
Memory Type GDDR5
Core Clock in MHz 1020 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 1500 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 288.0 GByte/s
Graphics Chipset AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
Device ID 6798
Vendor ID 1002
Subsystem ID 2775
Subsystem Vendor ID 1462
Graphics Bus Capability PCI Express 2.0
Maximum Bus Setting PCI Express 2.0 x16
BIOS Version 015.042.000.000
BIOS Part Number 113-C3865000-O77
BIOS Date 2013/12/04
Memory Size 3072 MB
Memory Type GDDR5
Core Clock in MHz 1020 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 1500 MHz
Total Memory Bandwidth in GByte/s 288.0 GByte/s
OS Name Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro
Version 6.3.9600 Build 9600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name GIFT
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model System Product Name
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU SKU
Processor AMD A4-6300 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, 3700 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1001, 10/9/2014
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode Legacy
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Desktop
Secure Boot State Unsupported
PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.3.9600.17196"
User Name GIFT\Sean
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.94 GB
Available Physical Memory 6.42 GB
Total Virtual Memory 9.19 GB
Available Virtual Memory 7.52 GB
Page File Space 1.25 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
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Now we're getting somewhere.
As I suspected - an APU with a discrete GPU attached.
The CPU power slider you're referring to only refers to the clock rate of the APU. It has no bearing or effect on the Radeon HD 7900 card (whichever one you have).
Your gaming performance is going to be limited no matter which 7900 you have (7950, 7970 most likely). If you can still make returns and change your configuration, I absolutely would - I'm not sure who made the decision to buy a $40 APU and throw in a high mid-end discrete GPU onto it, but it was a very poor one.
In this case, you can have the slider to the right (and only here). You can run your APU at full speed.
As I suspected - an APU with a discrete GPU attached.
The CPU power slider you're referring to only refers to the clock rate of the APU. It has no bearing or effect on the Radeon HD 7900 card (whichever one you have).
Your gaming performance is going to be limited no matter which 7900 you have (7950, 7970 most likely). If you can still make returns and change your configuration, I absolutely would - I'm not sure who made the decision to buy a $40 APU and throw in a high mid-end discrete GPU onto it, but it was a very poor one.
In this case, you can have the slider to the right (and only here). You can run your APU at full speed.
So what are you saying? My friend does not know how to build a good decent gaming pc? My card is crap with my PC?
How can I get the most out of this card with the hardware I have? I do not want to over clock anything and damgae my system.
What can you tell me about this PC and its video card? I mostly watch Youtube and surf the web and then I have a few games from STEAM I play. It seems to handle them. I want to get a new game coming next month and I am not sure if my PC can handle it.
How can I get the most out of this card with the hardware I have? I do not want to over clock anything and damgae my system.
What can you tell me about this PC and its video card? I mostly watch Youtube and surf the web and then I have a few games from STEAM I play. It seems to handle them. I want to get a new game coming next month and I am not sure if my PC can handle it.
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It's just a very strange choice, to put in a low-end APU (the CPU is kind of on the level of some of the old core duos years ago) with a fairly robust graphics card. One of the benefit of APU builds is to make inexpensive PCs that will have light workloads or for small home theater rigs so you don't need to buy a GPU - you don't actually get any use from the graphic portion of the APU, after all. If you were on a tight budget, something like an 860k would have been a fair better and more balanced choice.
Eking out performance, not a lot you can do. The APU is likely to be the bottleneck considering the GPU and there's really not so much you can do with that. Now, if your gaming load is fairly light, you might make do just fine (I don't know what your new game is), but it's not a build I would ever put together for someone.
Eking out performance, not a lot you can do. The APU is likely to be the bottleneck considering the GPU and there's really not so much you can do with that. Now, if your gaming load is fairly light, you might make do just fine (I don't know what your new game is), but it's not a build I would ever put together for someone.
It was a side project a friend built for me due to the fact he found some cheap parts and felt like Building PCs for fun. There is a cooling coil inside on the motherboard he put in for fun too. He is no expert, but the pc seems ok, I am a casual PC /gamer coming from consoles.
My new game is Fallout 4. Its not out yet but I want to be ready for it. Home consoles are locked at 30 FPS and PC is not,
Is My PC as good as a PS4 or Xbox one?
My new game is Fallout 4. Its not out yet but I want to be ready for it. Home consoles are locked at 30 FPS and PC is not,
Is My PC as good as a PS4 or Xbox one?
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