daveh98 Posted July 19, 2011 Share Posted July 19, 2011 (edited) I have the following system: m18x 2720, CF 6970 (missed the 6990 by 2 days and they wont do anything but offered me 200 off in addition), 8 gig ram, win 7 64. I am thinking of OC'ing the GPUs. I read on the tutorial that the new Trixx is simply a solution where you don't have to create any boot disks? Is this true? I never thought laptop OC was that simple for GPUs. Is there good headroom on the 6970s? How much am I missing out with the 6990s? Sorry for all the questions but I want to get good answers before I actually use Trixx. Thanks. Edited July 21, 2011 by svl7 added [solved] tag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted July 19, 2011 Founder Share Posted July 19, 2011 How to use Trixx is pretty much straight forward, please see this Miscellaneous Tutorials | Tech|InfernoThe difference between 6990Ms and 6970Ms will be noticable. If you repaste the 6970Ms you could probably hit 840/1120 (little bit more little bit less... depends on many things) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveh98 Posted July 19, 2011 Author Share Posted July 19, 2011 It is very straightforward you are correct! I did read on it. I just did a mild OC to 730/930 and 3dmark vantage went from 20,250 to 21,117. Is anyone running OC 24/7, or only when gaming? Do these default back to stock clocks upon reboot or do they stay at the settings you leave them? I never really OC and am curious as to it being wise or foolish to keep a card OC'ed if it is a mild OC. I am not much of a benchmarker and just like to have the best performance when gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder StamatisX Posted July 19, 2011 Founder Share Posted July 19, 2011 The only reason I don't overclock my cards is because I have a dual screen setup and anything above stock causes flickering. If you don't have an external monitor and your temperatures are fine I see no reason why not to keep the overclock, the 3D clocks will kick in only when you game or when needed otherwise they don't stay that high. I don't use Trixx to overclock because I prefer to flash the vbios with the clocks I want but I am pretty sure that once you reboot the settings are gone (that is safer because you don't risk to brick your card with a bad flash or keep crashing if you cards can't handle the overclock) unless you have the program start during boot and it will restore your saved settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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