Mine too. That means your ATI only support video decoding. Video encoding will be using CPU.

didnt know the Stream can be quite useful some how, OC GPU has no effect huh?

think i can gain some more speed if i flash to 6550's bios????

But the thing is its not using most of the GPU power ?
Limited by HDD speed ?

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: May 13 2011, 12:22 AM

ohh... make sense. my GPU utilization also quite low, around 30%....

no wonder cant get any difference even after OC.

anyway, i boot into 6550 bios, no improvement as you predicted:



This post has been edited by cowithgun: May 13 2011, 12:40 AM

Anyway, after I boot up with 6550's bios, I get this additional option in Catalyst:

Vari-Bright:


Steady-Video (dimmed?):


This post has been edited by cowithgun: May 13 2011, 12:47 AM

Mine not even showing the button lol


hmm, don't have the Vari-Bright option..

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: May 13 2011, 12:52 AM

Do you have this LCD Overdrive option? Duno if it's from 11.5 or what...

LCD Overdrive has always been there...

apparently, i m running out of stuff to play with this notebook the vari-bright doesnt seem very interesting

The vari-bright, to reduce screen brightness or ?

i also duno what it's for.. test a few things, but no effect. unfortunately, i cant change brightness in Discrete mode...

just remembered, can change brightness, but must off monitor to see effect. but still cant see any effect from Vari-bright... anyway, nothing else to test liao.. wanna flash it back to 5650

Any temperature drop from undervolting ?

i tested this, but strangely, i didnt see any temperature drop. i undervolt to 0.95 only.. compared to 1.0v. i ran furmark+aida64+prime95... temperature after 16 minutes, same as last time... should try lower?

When you undervolt, still can reach the current stable OC ?

didnt test that... let me flash it now.. brb

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Added on May 13, 2011, 1:52 amhow much u undervolt? from what to what? just to get an idea... (flashing now...)

This post has been edited by cowithgun: May 13 2011, 01:52 AM

Still can't get my flash working...

wow... 3dmark06 crashed when i OC at max and undervolt.....

Okay, at least it means the undervolt does work...

but i ran again, it completes, but my max GPU temp is 78°C

in fact, i got a new high score! 10061!

but since it crash once, i guess it is not as stable... need more test