voltage support of 5850 on Afterburner

Garrett_Wu · *Last edited by Garrett_Wu; 10-13-2009 at 16:54.*

Hi All

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ht=Afterburner
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ht=Afterburner

I found out many users said Afterburner doesn't support 5850 voltage adjustment on xtremesystem forum, but I'm sure Afterburner support it, I tested it with multimeter by running Furmark in MSI lab by myself, double confirmed it after Unwinder remind me. So I'm not sure what's going on now. maybe other board makers use different bios or something we don't know.

So, I'd like to ask for your help, if anyone has any brand 5850, please reply below if it's working or not. it will be better if you can provide I2C dump (use /i2cd,70 parameter on Afterburner.exe) or BIOS if it's not working.

edit:
It turns out AMD gave MSI an special engineer sample with different BIOS setting, which cause wrong setting for Afterburner. Sorry for inconvience, Afterburner 1.2.0 already fix 5850 voltage adjustment issue. Thanks for everyone's support.

Thanks!

edited by Unwinder:
fixed typo in command line parameters for I2C dump capturing

DSK · 10-10-2009, 04:46 | posts: 17,984 | Location: Coldwells,UK

Working here

Sapphire

i'll get a read out when i get home

mekki66 · 10-10-2009, 08:52 | posts: 13 | Location: Germany

Here is my read out.

http://www.speedshare.org/download.php?id=F897AFDE11

Nano2k · 10-10-2009, 08:56 | posts: 51 | Location: Switzerland

Which driver are we supposed to use with Afterburner 1.1.0?

mekki66 · 10-10-2009, 09:03 | posts: 13 | Location: Germany

A use the latest beta driver

mekki66 · 10-10-2009, 09:44 | posts: 13 | Location: Germany

Her the read out http://ul.to/bf9wzb

with /i2cd,70

Unwinder · 10-10-2009, 10:50 | posts: 10,312 | Location: Taganrog, Russia

Quote:

Originally Posted by mekki66

Her the read out http://ul.to/bf9wzb

with /i2cd,70

What is default 3D voltage shown by Afterburner on GPU voltage graph (_not_ on the slider, on the graph)?

Shogun88 · 10-10-2009, 10:59 | posts: 3

I have the same problem although it functioned for one moment......
It seems to be a driver problem.......without drivers the Voltage Tweak on my MSI Card functions…..

glenboy · *Last edited by glenboy; 10-10-2009 at 12:09.*

yes mine i was able to set 1.2 volts for a second on my 5850, then couldn't set again, mine is 1.087 volts stock 3d and its a powercolor one will upload my ic2 dump later today, i even tried a standard msi 5850 bios and was same, all the cards seem to have the same bios on them, the 5 on techpowerup are all the same i also tried the rc6 and rc 7 drivers and same

mekki66 · *Last edited by mekki66; 10-10-2009 at 12:24.*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unwinder

What is default 3D voltage shown by Afterburner on GPU voltage graph (_not_ on the slider, on the graph)?

1,087V ist 3d Volatge
2d = 0,949

DStealth · **Memory**: KHX 3x2G@2.1Ghz 9-9-9-21

Quote:

Originally Posted by glenboy

yes mine i was able to set 1.2 volts for a second on my 5850, then couldn't set again, mine is 1.087 volts stock 3d and its a powercolor one will upload my ic2 dump later today, i even tried a standard msi 5850 bios and was same, all the cards seem to have the same bios on them, the 5 on techpowerup are all the same i also tried the rc6 and rc 7 drivers and same

Quote:

Originally Posted by mekki66

1,087V ist 3d Volatge
2d = 0,949

Same here

mekki66 · 10-10-2009, 12:39 | posts: 13 | Location: Germany

Is it perhabs possible, that the 5850 have a Hardware lock??

Unwinder · 10-10-2009, 13:38 | posts: 10,312 | Location: Taganrog, Russia

Quote:

Originally Posted by mekki66

1,087V ist 3d Volatge
2d = 0,949

Looks like it has different VT1165 config comparing to 5850 sample tested in MSI lab. To modify the database to make it use your card settings try to close Afterburner, open your profile file with notepad (VEN_1002&DEV_6899&SUBSYS_0B001002&REV_00&BUS_1&DE V_0&FN_0.cfg stored into .\Profiles subfolder into application folder), and add the following text to it:

[Settings]
VT1165_Defaults = 17 33

Then start Afterburner again and see if it helps. It is important to add that if you have UAC enabled, then you must temporarily disable it prior to editing the file.

mekki66 · *Last edited by mekki66; 10-10-2009 at 13:53.*

It9 works. Thank you very much.

Its great :-)

Unwinder · 10-10-2009, 13:57 | posts: 10,312 | Location: Taganrog, Russia

Quote:

Originally Posted by mekki66

It9 works. Thank you very much.

Its great :-)

No problem, glad that it helped you. Now it would be really interesting to know why different VRM configurations are used on that MSI card and the cards released by other manufacturers.

Garrett, do you have a single sample or multiple ones in your lab? Probably the one you used is some engineering sample? Or a sample with pre-production BIOS?

mekki66 · 10-10-2009, 14:29 | posts: 13 | Location: Germany

I have a XFX and only an MSI Bios flahed on it.

I hope soon comes a unlock bios

sTOrM41 · 10-10-2009, 15:08 | posts: 241 | Location: Germany

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unwinder

Looks like it has different VT1165 config comparing to 5850 sample tested in MSI lab. To modify the database to make it use your card settings try to close Afterburner, open your profile file with notepad (VEN_1002&DEV_6899&SUBSYS_0B001002&REV_00&BUS_1&DE V_0&FN_0.cfg stored into .\Profiles subfolder into application folder), and add the following text to it:

[Settings]
VT1165_Defaults = 17 33

Then start Afterburner again and see if it helps. It is important to add that if you have UAC enabled, then you must temporarily disable it prior to editing the file.

working this way!
thx!

mekki66 · 10-10-2009, 15:42 | posts: 13 | Location: Germany

Screen :-)

1003GPU\1250

glenboy · 10-10-2009, 15:53 | posts: 1,182 | Location: UK

thanks unwider for your trouble i will report as soon as i try it this evening but it looks like we're in business its been really bugging me not being able to overvolt my card anfd thanks mekki for the screen thats just what i have been waiting for

mekki66 · 10-10-2009, 16:00 | posts: 13 | Location: Germany

No problem :-)

Have fun with this card

Nano2k · 10-10-2009, 16:24 | posts: 51 | Location: Switzerland

Unwinder, I added the settings to my cfg file and V control also seems to work now.
Gigabyte 5850 original bios.

Thanks^^

Jack Hair · 10-10-2009, 16:55 | posts: 56 | Location: The Netherlands

Ive also tried adding the VT1165_Defaults = 17 33 to the cfg but it doesn't seem to work on my card. Voltage remains 1.087 no matter what.

i2cdump: http://rapidshare.com/files/291183589/i2cdump.txt.html

DSK · 10-10-2009, 17:01 | posts: 17,984 | Location: Coldwells,UK

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jack Hair

Ive also tried adding the VT1165_Defaults = 17 33 to the cfg but it doesn't seem to work on my card. Voltage remains 1.087 no matter what.

i2cdump: http://rapidshare.com/files/291183589/i2cdump.txt.html

indeed same here mine just suddenly stoped working

so i tried this and no luck

mekki66 · 10-10-2009, 17:26 | posts: 13 | Location: Germany

flash the MSI Bios on your cards than it works.

I have a XFX and the MSI Bios

glenboy · 10-10-2009, 18:36 | posts: 1,182 | Location: UK

yes confirmed working here this is on xp,
i knew as soon as i read unwinders post it was what was wrong with mine, lets see know how it does , thanks unwinder and kyzler for his help as well, now lets get benchin