I know but he's completely unhelpful and he trolls all of the amd threads.
I think he trolls all the threads in this sections, just gave a quick browse and he's everywhere, talking out if his hindparts to agitate people, all the time.
What's it going to take for mods to take action?
No clue, I'm new to the board, but I hope we're pretty close to them saying "enough is enough". Otherwise, just ignore him, report his posts and then put him on the blacklist.
I'm fed up of trying to overclock and having my pc keep crashing so I am going to play some STALKER and try again later. Just thought of something. I want to try OC with the memory at stock. Might be that it doesn't like to be OC.
Could be anything, but it seems like a good idea. If you are able to unlink the shaders, too, try that. Just the core, then shaders, then mem, if you really need to.
It seems to be the "electrical leakage quality", or basically, how much the power distributed in the chip is used in compliance with the manufacturer's "ideal gold standard". Poor cards have 45-60%, great ones have 80-90% (like my Golden Sample GAINWARD), amazing ones can even slightly exceed 100% (which means that they are more power-effective than designed and expected). The power loss is mostly dissipated as heat (but don't ask me for details, I'm just a humanities major, lol).
In any case, it apparently can be used to tell if a card is likely to OC well or not. Not a foolproof method, but a decent one (there are many more factors, but power efficiency is a major one). Also, apparently, card producers "bin" chips by the value itself. The 40-60% ones are most likely to be found in the regular reference editions of the cards - good stuff, but most of the time stuck with a reference cooler. Not much potential for OC there.
The better ones are selected for "golden sample", "OC" and such editions of the cards, most of them with specially designed cooling systems like Phantoms Direct CU II, Twin Frozr III or Windforce, to name a few. Those are clocked higher by defaults and you can expect to OC them even further. The best ones are the ones I'd expect to find in "SOC Super Oveclock" or "Goes Like Hell" editions, where default clocks exceed stock ones by far and the limit to which you can push those cards is only found on huge aftermarket air or water cooling.
However, you can also find poor ones in the "OC" editions, and great or even amazing ones in the "regular bin". That's why people keep saying it's the luck of the draw.
This is about what I gathered from the 'net. Apologies for any imprecision, I'm new to the term myself. Hope I helped :thumbsup: