ATI X1250 overclocking (57 MHz bug)

[Thomas_X]

I wanna overclock the GPU of my onboard graphics card from 400 MHz to 525 MHz. So I installed ATITool 0.26. Now the GPU clock is 57 MHz (1/7 of real value!?) and the memory clock is 400 MHz. Why is the first clock wrong?

Mainboard is GIGABYTE GA-MA69GM-S2H, and I tried different Catalyst versions without success.

[Th3-R3as0n]

Well first of all i dont think you will see any benifit in overclocking an onboard and if you do it would be very small..

As to your GPU core clock problem try the latest ati tool.. the 0.27 beta 4 and see what happens

[jbunch07]

most on board has locked frequency my laptop did same thing

[DaedalusHelios]

Use rivatuner and GPU-z and see if they see the same thing.:)

[Thomas_X]

Well first of all i dont think you will see any benifit in overclocking an onboard and if you do it would be very small..

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/468/1/

525 MHz instead of 400 MHz works stable, and frame rate is increased roundabout 11%. As the current frame rate is almost acceptable, this could make the difference.

[Thomas_X]

As to your GPU core clock problem try the latest ati tool.. the 0.27 beta 4 and see what happens

Same problem with beta 4.

[overclocker]

that looks good to me my friend just bot a lapy with x1200 gfxs and i will be trying to overclock it im sure :P

[Jarman]

just because theirs works at 525MHz stable doesnt mean urs will though :S

i have seen this bug somewhere on here b4...sure some1 will point out the solution soon

[Thomas_X]

Use rivatuner and GPU-z and see if they see the same thing.:)

GPU-z says:
GPU RS690
GPU Clock 57 MHz (!!!)
Memory 401 MHz

Default Clock 400 MHz
Memory 200 MHz

Memory Size 128 MB
Bandwith 6.4 GB/s


Rivatuner says:
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Northbridge information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0400000000 Description : unknown
$0400000001 Vendor ID : 1002 (ATI)
$0400000002 Device ID : 7910
$0400000003 AGP bus : not supported
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$ffffffffff Display adapter information
$ffffffffff ----------------------------------------------------------------
$0000000000 Description : ATI Radeon X1200 Series
$0000000001 Vendor ID : 1002 (ATI)
$0000000002 Device ID : 791e
$0000000003 Location : bus 1, device 5, function 0
$0000000004 Bus type : PCI
$0000000009 Base address 0 : d8000000 (memory range)
$000000000a Base address 1 : none
$000000000b Base address 2 : fdfe0000 (memory range)
$000000000c Base address 3 : none
$000000000d Base address 4 : 0000ee00 (I/O range)
$000000000e Base address 5 : fde00000 (memory range)

[newtekie1]

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/468/1/

525 MHz instead of 400 MHz works stable, and frame rate is increased roundabout 11%. As the current frame rate is almost acceptable, this could make the difference.

Did you actually read the article? He had the same problem you did, you have to go in and change what device ATITool is reading.

[Silverel]

gains are much more apparent on those if you can get the memory to overclock. That's about the equivalent to my 9600pro. Leaving the core at stock, and memory up 10% nets around 15% gain in framerates, but my memory sucks and tends to freak out after 30minutes. core can run at 460 constantly without problems, and 30minutes at 540.

[Thomas_X]

Did you actually read the article? He had the same problem you did, you have to go in and change what device ATITool is reading.

Of course I noticed that. The device is the correct one, and in v0.27 there is only one device available (the correct one).

[Thomas_X]

The problem is solved for me. After pressing Ctrl + F1 in the BIOS a secret menu appears. There it's possible to increase the GPU clock from 400 MHz up to 500 MHz in 1 MHz steps. Also I can increase the FSB clock from 200 MHz up to 500 MHz. The maximum multiplier of the CPU is locked.

[xxfordxx]

well i still have this problem and cant get this "special" menu

HELP ME PLEASE!!!

[xxfordxx]

please someone i can run on games and its affecting everything!