Can I Overclock my Sapphire Radeon HD5450 1GB DDR3 with the BIOS method ? My CPU: Intel Core2Duo E7500 2.93GHz MB : Intel DG41RQ RAM: 4 GB DDR2
Yes you can, but I don't expect miracles. This card isn't powerful enough to run any modern games, even if you run it at very low resolutions. I recommend put a fan in the heatsink if you plan to overclock. Did you already overclocked it? You can't get any higher overclock with BIOS mot than with other tool like MSI Afterburner. I don't think it worth overclocking, unless you are planning play some old games. In this case, if overclocking can help to get more than 30FPS it may worth.
Can you please tell how to get into my Graphics card's BIOS ? I have tried MSI Afterburner before.. But it wont save my OC settings. Same as AMD overdrive. It would get reset to default clocks when ever I restarted my PC manually.. I have to set it up again&again before playing games.. I wanted something permanent. Thanks for your participation Guyz .
Bios method isn't that risky, but unworthy in your case. I'm pretty sure you can't overclock with AMD Overdrive and MSI Afterburner at same time. Maybe this pic can help. 1) click the padlock, make sure it's open 2) set your desired overclock values 3) apply settings 4) click save, slots 1 to 5 will start blinking 5) select the slot You want to save your overclock profile 6) click the padlock icon again to clock the new profile 7) check "apply overclocking at system startup".
Don't use 2 different tools to overclock at same time. Use AMD Overdrive OR MSI Afterburner, not BOTH. I recommend you leave AMD Overdrive, as it is a poor tool compared to MSI Afterburner. Your profile in MSI Afterburner still unlocked, lock it (click the padlock icon). In MSI Afterburner, go to options > general > extend official overclock limits, reboot and try again. MSI Afterburner get these values from your VGA card bios. GPU and memory clock scale dynamically, if you are not running any GPU intensive program, it will downclock. Check these values while running something gpu intensive, like MSI Kombustor or GPU-Z render test. Does this card have a fan?
I'm glad to see you have your problem solved. Seems that Trixx did the trick. Shame on me, even being a big Saphire fanboy, owning 2 Saphire cards, I totally forgot Saphire Trixx. Last time I used Saphire Trixx, long time ago, it was a pile of crap compared to MSI Afterburner. Trixx is not as featured as MSI Afterburner, but it seems it did a better job than Afterburner. One thing that Trixx lacks, correct-me if I'm wrong, is that doesn't overlay info on screen like Afterburner. Afterburner can show FPS like Fraps does, plus a bunch of other info like GPU am Mem usage, temp, fan rpm, etc... Keep an eye at temperatures while stressing your card, high temps can damage it. I believe you are intended to overclock to get better performance in games, do you mind to share your overclock gain?
Well yes trixx is very not detailed.. but yess it did what i wanted.. But yesterday i observed that my monitor went into "no signal mode" 2 times(that too not while playing games, I was just browsing on the browser).. I had to reboot my pc to bring it back to work.. I thought may be it was due to "over"clocking (738Mhz) so i downclocked to 713Mhz... from then it worked fine. PS : what is overclock gain?
Sorry, english is not my language. I'm curious about how much FPS overclock can increase in games you play. Did you tested how much your video card can overclock, or just set and arbitrary number?
english is not my language either ! FPS increase is about 4-5 And I never tested its limits (I cant afford to test its limits right now ) I just want a smoother game play ... so I increase the clocks by just a little bit.
Yeah I don't know why msi afterburner doesn't have it in it like trixx! May be its make specific like msi wont agree with sapphire stuff