The 7970 Thread. Post your overclocks and experiences here:

Thanks mate, that's good to know . I will get another one if still available in my place. But i am thinking since my mobo only support pci-e 8x 8x if running SLI or crossfire...do you think pci-e 2.0 running at 8x will bottleneck this card? anyone?

 

No it wont, you will be fine

 

where is the best place to purchase this Card.

 

Depends where you live.

 

He's in the UK!

SO the best place to buy is probably the USA.uke2:

More seriously, there's still units available all over the place shop around.

 

How did you know?
His Location field is blank...

 

If in the UK, then Dabs have got the XFX and VTX in for only £439, seems about the cheapest, but ive never used those before

 

These 7970 cards are awesome I can finally play BF3 maxed out at 6048x1080!

 

*drools* Did you pick up three of these then?

 

Yep I got 3 they are very fast, couple of games i have trouble with Metro and Crysis 2 maxed out and my Graphics cards are at 60% and my CPU is only at 60% so maybe driver problem or in metro case probably not optimized.

 

anyways for the guys who are not worried how many fps they are running in the latest sims :wanker:

uncle fester from TEAM.AU shows how to deal with the stupid idea of the resessed core..just get your file out


read all about it here
http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?p=19274#post19274

modded with a anus bios,now that gets me get 1800 on the rams
gpuweak software has a long way to go thuo...

 

Cowie that's just mental and awesome all at the same time! Love it.

 

Ordered HIS 7970, was cheapest there was and considering they all reference enough said. Mind you atm paying $729 AUD in my opinion is outrageous but i had to have one or two.

 

yeah those guys are some crasy pro's
I cant do that to my card it will only be here a short time and i cannot deface it in anyway.


I have found with the bios flash for software the higher mem voltage\clocks is only good for 03 and vantage the other benches will have nothing to do with them.1800 is the limit for ram before i start to lose points.

I did have a cold night and was able to bench 1260+ in most benches with 1.21v set any higher will crash it still.
idle is 20c loads up to no more the 55c


Uploaded with ImageShack.us

i remember getting 36'6k in the cpu bench with my nv cards hope to get aliitle more there to boost the score some.

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

i got a whole lot of nothing so far but i will try more later

 

Gona get her fitted after some grub and that!

 

Ohhh looking good mate, let me know how ya get on

 

Unlocked msi ab and did a bit more testing.

2600K @ 5GHz in both.

1220/1650 (6600MHz) voltage 1.243

By jaxmacfl at 2012-01-16

1230/1750 (7000MHz) voltage 1.268

By jaxmacfl at 2012-01-16


Memory increase doesn't seem to make much of a difference there.

 

Got Crysis 2 fixed using AFR runs great maxed now @ 6048x1080!

 

Well shes finally in

Had a right mare getting the 6970 out, took me about half hr

Gave good old 3D Mark 11 a quick run through to make sure she was running fine, and got 7,262 http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2564189 , which is probably about right, as everything is running at stock (at present)

Now with my 6970 not working with any newer CCC than the 11.7's (any higher buggered my clocks up as they changed the Overdrive), i tried that one on the 7970, but it wouldn't install, had to install the new one that the drivers came with, and it reports my idle clocks of 300/150, so could someone confirm thats correct please ?


EDIT: Don't think its going into 3D clocks, as that 3d mark screenie says clocks are 300/150 ?

EDIT2: Actually, it may be going into 3D clocks, as just checked one of my old 6970 screenshots, and that gets reported as it runnnig at 0mhz Core, 0mhz Memory, and surely, if the core and memory clocks were not going into 3D, then at 300/150, i wouldn't be getting over 7k would i ?

 

2600K @ 5GHz 7970s @ 1220/1650


By jaxmacfl at 2012-01-16