Hi everyone,

Following the article on third party VGA coolers i had installed ATi Tool with the intention of clocking my X2 fan speed up.

I have to admit that i know nothing about ATi tool and may just not have been able to find the right section to increase fan voltage.

There is another issue with it in that it doesnt seem to register the clock speeds on the main page. I dont know whether the default readings are 0 and you have to set the readings yourself though. When i did find max clock the screen went a funny colour and then rebooted.

I'm presently at work, so i cant post screeny's. Otherwise that'd be helpful for everyone....

I'm running X64 edition with catalyst drivers 6.8 on a powercolour X1800XT 512mb. X64 edition could be the main problem in that its awful, but any help from anyone would be appreciated in both problems.

Thanks,

Pete

The 3 pin power connector is plugged into the card itself rather than a separate psu cable.
This leads to two questions: What is the voltage put through the reference power socket?
If i plug it into a separate psu cable then will that be a fixed higher voltage and thus increase fan speed?

WTF are you talking about over volting the cards fan to increase speed?


Look here are a few steps you should know in order to use ATI tool correctly.

First of all anything above Catalyst 6.3 does not and will not work correctly with ATI TOOL, any time you play a game with an AVI or MPEG it downclocks your card back to 2d settings regardless of disabeling the 2 ATI SERVICES responsible for this switching. So if you want to overclock correctly with ATI TOOL then revert back to Catalyst 6.3. I think those are still the best anyway.

2nd you must disable ATI HOTKEY POLLER and ATI SMART, just go into control panel>adminstrative tools>services and then disable those 2 services. Reboot your system.

3rd Open ATI TOOL and make sure you use beta 14 and not beta 15! beta 15 has too many bugs right now. Click on settings and then in the drop down box click on fan control and then check override fan speed and just bump that babey up too 100%. I have the Accelero myself and you cannot even hear the fan when its on full.


Next thing to do is go back to the drop down menu and find voltage control. You must slide the VGPU to 1.4 volts and then hit apply. Now you can overclock correctly because your card is set to use the voltages it would need for 3D mode. The reason you got the funny colors when Trying to overclock was because you did not give it enough voltage first.



Just let me know if I can help you further.

Thanks!

I did say in my first post that i have no idea what im doing.....

Ill give that all a try when i get home and i can post if i need more help.