clock speed

[Hekke]

What program can I use to read the clock speed en memory speed of my Radeon 8500 (64MB)? When I use Power Strip it says that the dafault speed is 250/250. But it should be 275/275. When I set it at 275/275 GTA3 display some strange textures, but it runs ok, it doesn't slow down or it doesn't crash.

 

[AMD_Man]

If PowerStrip reports 250/250 then that's what your R8500 is running at. You probably have a 3rd party card that's clocked slower and probably has slower RAM that can't handle 275MHz which is why you get artifacts.

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[Hekke]

no, it is an built by ATI card. There are no other names on the card except ATI. Is there a difference between the 8500 and 8500LE in clockspeed ?

 

[cakecake]

Yes, there's a difference. But I think AMD man was suggesting that because texture artifacts are common on video cards where the video memory has been pushed too far past its limit. Generally these are the two symptoms for computer that can actually boot using these high settings:

Core speed too high
-constant stalls for seconds at a time followed by periods of flawless function, repeating over and over again--similar to behavior witnessed when you have an IRQ conflict although not as severe
-complete freezeup requiring reboot

Memory clocked too high
-Windows desktop starts showing strange graphical errors
-Textures in games are missing, blacked out, or colored strangely

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[Samoyed]

ATI makes a cheap line of cards usually with the "LE" name. They are clocked slower. I was burned 2 years ago when I thought I was getting a ATI Radeon 32 meg DDR card when in fact it was an "LE" version with slower memory and core clock. I also discovered this using Powerstrip. I raised hell with the vendor for misrepresenting the card on Price Watch and he eventually took back the card and gave a refund.

 

[Simon5]

275/275 is for "boxed version" of ATi Radeon 8500.
250/250 is for "OEM version" of ATi Radeon 8500.
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