Questions to AMD X6 CPU's and MSI Afterburner users

[PermenentMarker]

Is anyone using MSI Afterburner to overclock their GPU ?

If so, how is your game running ?

I ask because even if my game runs flawlessly on semi older hardware... I got greedy, Installed MSI Afterburner and slightly overclocked my GTX260.

My gpu temps didn't go higher then regular...

But my game started magic hiccups and fps dropped from 45-65 stable to 5-20.

Running default values didn't make any difference and my overclock was first +20Mhz on GPU and +15 on Memory... then I tried half of that.

After uninstalling msi afterburner and rebooting the PC, my fps came back to normal...


So is anyone using this program running silky smooth ???



Question #2 regarding Phenom X6

It is not uncommon that in videogames they get outperformed by the older Phenom 955-965

I read of a few people with the 6core AMD Thuban having terrible FPS.

Have you tried Disabling Turbo-boost and or disabling 2 cores to make it a quad ?

I just think it would be proper troubleshooting. If it does make a good difference, you should inform TWI so they can solve it.


(Just trying to help)

 

[Neil79]

I'm using MSI afterburner on a gtx 2xx OC, but an intel cpu i also experience the issues you do...

 

[Dirtybandit]

Umm, ill try deleting my afterburner

 

[Das Bose]

I don't have the same cpu, mine's an intel, but I use afterburner to overclock my non-msi GTX470 to 750mhz with no problems. I don't get anymore fps because it's capped @ 100, but it stays above 60 when it dips and stutters, which is becoming increasingly less often with these patches

 

[Catalavos]

See my rig below. I get between 25-45 FPS on (mostly) High settings. With my weaker GPU I'm not sure if this is as good as I should expect it to be. I'll try turning off 2 cores and report back.

 

[Dirtybandit]

Just deleted msi afterburner and rebooted, still getting 35-45 fps with 2 460s, 955@3.6ghz and 4gigs of ram (maxed out)

 

[Neil79]

It's not msi afterburner!