Woohoo! New 5870 XFX XXX Edition... What to do next?

Sasqui · Dec 10, 2009

So I plugged in my brand new 5870 XFX XXX edition last night and started messing around.

The default 3D clocks are 875/1300

Couple things I noticed:

The card is huge
The fan is LOUD
The card really does draw a lot LESS power than my 4870 (about 40+watts less confirmed via Kill-A-Watt)
Seems to run quite cool
The card is FAST

I ran the card up to the top core in CCC (900), tested fine. Forget what the memory was at, but it was topped out as well

What to do next?

I want see where the top end is on memory and core - what should I use that doesn't require a BIOS mod?
I want to put this under water - any advice for water blocks?

Flyordie · Dec 10, 2009

Thats why I went with ASUS. My CCC maxes are 1200 Core, 1500 Memory.

Right now idk of any utility that is compatible with the new series in that respect.

Could flash the BIOS to an ASUS model and use Smart Doctor ect...

pantherx12 · Dec 10, 2009

For waterblocks I'd say get a GPU only block compatible with 4870 then just get mosfet and ram sinks

Copper ones.

This way its cheap as possible and garranteed to work.

Sasqui · Dec 10, 2009

Flyordie said:
Thats why I went with ASUS. My CCC maxes are 1200 Core, 1500 Memory.

Right now idk of any utility that is compatible with the new series in that respect.

Could flash the BIOS to an ASUS model and use Smart Doctor ect...

Yea, I heard the ASUS flash is a way to do it. I'd like to keep the virgin BIOS the way it is at the moment

There must be a registry entry, etc. for CCC max Core and Mem clocks?

kylzer · Dec 10, 2009

Use this tool http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1641/AMD_GPU_Clock_Tool_v0.9.26.0_For_HD_5870.html

You can break the limits using this.

Sasqui · Dec 10, 2009

kylzer said:
Use this tool http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1641/AMD_GPU_Clock_Tool_v0.9.26.0_For_HD_5870.html

You can break the limits using this.

Cool - are there any discussion threads related to this? I'm wondering if I need to axe CCC for this to work... or if there are any vendor cards this does not work with.

Edit... also wondering what the best stability test software (free) is. FurMark and 3D Mark Vantage???

Here's a review of the clock tool for the 5870:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1090/1/

kylzer · Dec 10, 2009

Works with all reference AMD 5850 and 5870s

Used it with my 5850 had CCC and msi afterburner on at same time no problems but the voltage control dont work so good though.

I use http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/ for testing or the Ungine benchmark http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1681/Unigine_Heaven_DX11_Benchmark.html

Binge · Dec 10, 2009

AHEM! You fools, use MSI Afterburner to go past the CCC limits.

http://hwbot.org/article/news/msi_afterburner_140_released_bypass_ccc_limits

kylzer · Dec 10, 2009

Binge said:
AHEM! You fools, use MSI Afterburner to go past the CCC limits.

http://hwbot.org/article/news/msi_afterburner_140_released_bypass_ccc_limits

Cool story bro but i still needed to flash my card but hopefully it will work though.

Binge · Dec 10, 2009

kylzer said:
Cool story bro but i still needed to flash my card but hopefully it will work though.

Why would you need to flash your card? I've had my 5850 up to 1050 on the core without having to flash.

Sasqui · Dec 10, 2009

Binge said:
Why would you need to flash your card? I've had my 5850 up to 1050 on the core without having to flash.

Wow. So just install MSI afterburner and run it? Does it require that CCC be disabled? It works on cards other than MSI???

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/gui.htm

Questions questions...

H82LUZ73 · Dec 10, 2009

MSI Afterburner is Unwinder and based off the Riva tuner .

Sasqui · Dec 10, 2009

H82LUZ73 said:
MSI Afterburner is Unwinder and based off the Riva tuner .

Are you trying to answer my questions? If so, I don't understand the answer.

TheMailMan78 · Dec 10, 2009

Does anyone use auto-tune in CCC anymore?

douglatins · Dec 10, 2009

I was in doubt if i should get a 5870, a 5870 CF and a 5970, 1000, 2000, 1600, respectivaly, even if the 5870 can achieve higher clocks than the 5970, the added cost wouldnt be worth it

Splave · Dec 10, 2009

Sasqui said:
Wow. So just install MSI afterburner and run it? Does it require that CCC be disabled? It works on cards other than MSI???

http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/gui.htm

Questions questions...

hey bro, you have to go into C

rograms files/msiafterburner/ and open the config file in notepad and change the last value (unofficial overclocking) from 0 to 1

any brand works, and you can let CCC be.

Lionheart · Dec 10, 2009

you guys get some crazy OC's on your cards, I mean I had 900MHZ for GPU and 1300MHZ for memory on my HD5870 but you's have 1200MHZ on core and 1500MHZ on memory, how does ur card take the punishment!

Zubasa · Dec 10, 2009

TheMailMan78 said:
Does anyone use auto-tune in CCC anymore?

It sucks ass, don't use it when you get your 5850. :shadedshu
The OC it spits out are everyting but stable for the HD5k cards. :respect:

HossHuge · Dec 10, 2009

Zubasa said:
It sucks ass, don't use it when you get your 5850. :shadedshu
The OC it spits out are everyting but stable for the HD5k cards.

I don't think it works on any cards. I've used it on 3-4850's, 2-4830's and a 4670 and it has never given me an accurate overclock.

Zubasa · Dec 10, 2009

HossHuge said:
I don't think it works on any cards. I've used it on 3-4850's, 2-4830's and a 4670 and it has never given me an accurate overclock.

On the older card it actually spit out some low but stable OCs.

I believe this sucker still uses the scan for artifacts method to determine stability. :ohwell:

TheMailMan78 · Dec 10, 2009

I have my 5850. No ocing yet. I heard auto-tune was good.

Zubasa · Dec 10, 2009

TheMailMan78 said:
I have my 5850. No ocing yet. I heard auto-tune was good.

It was, but it doesn't seems to work with th HD5ks. :ohwell:

At lease not with my 5870. It used to work quite well with the X1950Pro.

TheMailMan78 · Dec 10, 2009

Zubasa said:
It was, but it doesn't seems to work with th HD5ks.
At lease not with my 5870. It used to work quite well with the X1950Pro.

It worked great with my 4850s too.

Zubasa · Dec 10, 2009

TheMailMan78 said:
It worked great with my 4850s too.

Well, you got 2 Asus cards.
The limit on my IceQ4 Turbo was quite low was quite low so it was uesless.

Sasqui · Dec 10, 2009

Splave said:
hey bro, you have to go into Crograms files/msiafterburner/ and open the config file in notepad and change the last value (unofficial overclocking) from 0 to 1

any brand works, and you can let CCC be.

Guess the only way is to try it now... I didn't see anything in the GUI about memory voltages. Does the ASUS OCing utility have that?

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