New AMD / ATI Drivers

[rvn817j]

I was updating a couple of my computers yesterday and noticed that AMD graphics drivers now have a CPU OVERDRIVE capability. I gave it a try on two (2) different AMD processor. I was able to get a stable 4.0 GHz on my Athlon II X4 970 BE (on air), a boost of .5 GHz over stock speed, and I was able to get 3.9 GHz on my FX 8120 (on air), a boost of .8 GHz over stock speed. The really good thing about it is that you just click several 'on screen' buttons and the software runs a test on your processor. After the test your computer re-boots and you select CPU Overdrive and it is done!

So, for those of you running AMD equipment, you might consider this new driver (it also has GPU Overdrive for AMD cards). I'm getting really good FPS (40 -50) on my 970 BE machine. (I just recently installed FSX on my FX 8120 machine and have not done much 'tweaking' yet.)

[Naismith]

Do you mean the AMD overdrive facility on the Catalyst system? When you say CPU overdrive, you have confused my feeble brain whether you mean the PC CPU or the graphic card CPU.

[DagR]

He means the CPU, not the GPU.

[rvn817j]

He means the CPU, not the GPU.

DagR is correct. The AMD driver now contains both a Central Processing Unit (CPU) OVERDRIVE program and a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) OVERDRIVE program. The programs make overclocking easy for those of us that aren't as nimble as we used to be.