PowerPlay enabled Bios HD 3450

[fils.rouge]

Hi there,

as its my first post, a cheering hello to the TPU communitY :toast:

I recently bought a Sapphire HD 3450 with 256 MB of DDR2-SDRam and got slightly disappointed, when looking to GPU-Z and the AMD CCC. Powerplay seems to be disabled even though Sapphire advertizes that as a feature :mad:

So now I'm looking for a BIOS with PowerPlay to enable it.

P.S. dump (http://rapidshare.com/files/121620347/RV620.bin.html) from my Sapphire Card

[Lillebror]

maybe its just me, but it looks like its working when you look at the catalyst picture.

Oh, and welcome to TPU! :D

[W1zzard]

yep looks working to me too .. check the gpuz sensors tab it should show realtime clocks

[fils.rouge]

well, I don't think so, look at it

[largon]

Try RivaTuner, it display clocks in realtime. GPU-Z doesn't.

[fils.rouge]

RivaTuner doesn't support HardwareMonitoring at th hd3450 at all

[fils.rouge]

for everybody who raised the same question, here the reply of the sapphire support:

"Dear Mr.X,

this feature is not to be enabled or disabled. While at normal desktop operation it clocks with the 2D rates and when using it within 3D applications, it switches to the powerplay mode."

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

That sounds like absolute b*llsh*t to me, doesn't it?