The HD 5970 Clubhouse

[Glazierman]

2nd 5970 shipped

Wow, Micro Center called and verified order by phone and will ship in three hours got last one in stock.

 

[Black Panther]

Checked mine out, I'm using the stock

I'll try to let the benchmark to run more than 20 minutes, preferably an hour.
Have you tried the Furmark 1.8? I think that gives a lot more work to the card than apparently the msi furmark does. JMO though...

 

[Black Panther]

Wow, Micro Center called and verified order by phone and will ship in three hours got last one in stock.

Awesome! Keep us posted

 

[sinar]

MSI AB

 

[Lionheart]

Can I join, Im guessing I have to put pics up!

 

[Black Panther]

Can I join, Im guessing I have to put pics up!

I was wondering when you'd post here, I knew you were one of the first to get a 5970!

Welcome!

 

[Lionheart]

I was wondering when you'd post here, I knew you were one of the first to get a 5970!

Welcome!

Aaahh you noticed, I feel special now

 

[Black Panther]

I just installed a new beta driver - guy below has a 5850 but we know the GSOD and 'driver stopped responding' problems are common to all 5xxx series including the 5970.

I get GSODs occasionally and also driver stops responding, when I'm in 2D. Now we'll see how it goes...

Fresh owner (only for 3 days) of HD5850 and dang, GSOD from first day. Second day too. From yesterday I've installed this and today is a full day without GSOD. Too early to be happy but it's a sign.
It looks like it's a complex problem. Something between ATI hardware/software and Seven latest updates. At least those guys think so.

Btw this was the first time I installed an ATI driver and I didn't get that it was finished 'with errors' at the end. I take that as a good sign...

 

[Lionheart]

I just installed a new beta driver - guy below has a 5850 but we know the GSOD and 'driver stopped responding' problems are common to all 5xxx series including the 5970.

I get GSODs occasionally and also driver stops responding, when I'm in 2D. Now we'll see how it goes...



Btw this was the first time I installed an ATI driver and I didn't get that it was finished 'with errors' at the end. I take that as a good sign...

Hey black panther, do you have crysis or crysis warhead, if so do you have any issues at all, lag or micro stuttering, cause I get micro stuttering in the first crysis and in warhead I get severe lag in certain areas, not sure why, plus when I apply AA the performance drops significantly, the only problems I got with my HD5970 is playing the 2 crysis games and random GSOD plus crashes!

cant wait till 10.2 drivers!

 

[Black Panther]

Hey black panther, do you have crysis or crysis warhead, if so do you have any issues at all, lag or micro stuttering, cause I get micro stuttering in the first crysis and in warhead I get severe lag in certain areas, not sure why, plus when I apply AA the performance drops significantly, the only problems I got with my HD5970 is playing the 2 crysis games and random GSOD plus crashes!

cant wait till 10.2 drivers!

I have the Crysis games but I have to reinstall them. Haven't come around to doing it yet, but they're on my to-do list.

Otherwise all games play fine, even Cryostasis... (and Fallout3, L4D, Dragon Age...) I just spent 4 hours playing Sims 3 on max game settings and forcing more settings through CCC and still getting 170fps. It only drops to 60-90fps (which is still fine) if I use Supersampling AA.

What is getting me a tad pissed is that the card behaves well in-game, but then I'd be browsing windows and this happens... it isn't that frequent, I've had my pc powered on since 9AM and it is now 9PM and this happened only two times since then, always when I wasn't gaming - I just took a quick snapshot with the cellphone as it happened just now as I was reading your post:

Notice the random red and blue dots on the desktop, they're like artifacts... then the desktop freezes, the monitor goes grey, then it goes black, then it comes up normally with a message at bottom right that the driver has stopped working and has recovered. This whole process is quite quick, only taking some 20-30 seconds.

 

[t_ski]

What about your fps t_ski?

With these settings:

with the last version Furmark I am running, when set to "Stability, Fullscreen=Off, 1280x1024..."

I run between 97-144 FPS.

 

[t_ski]

3DMV run at 930/1300:

 

[Lionheart]

3DMV run at 930/1300:

http://img.techpowerup.org/100214/28178.jpg

That is one crazy overclock you got both on ur CPU and HD5970, Nice!

I have the Crysis games but I have to reinstall them. Haven't come around to doing it yet, but they're on my to-do list.

Otherwise all games play fine, even Cryostasis... (and Fallout3, L4D, Dragon Age...) I just spent 4 hours playing Sims 3 on max game settings and forcing more settings through CCC and still getting 170fps. It only drops to 60-90fps (which is still fine) if I use Supersampling AA.

What is getting me a tad pissed is that the card behaves well in-game, but then I'd be browsing windows and this happens... it isn't that frequent, I've had my pc powered on since 9AM and it is now 9PM and this happened only two times since then, always when I wasn't gaming - I just took a quick snapshot with the cellphone as it happened just now as I was reading your post:

Notice the random red and blue dots on the desktop, they're like artifacts... then the desktop freezes, the monitor goes grey, then it goes black, then it comes up normally with a message at bottom right that the driver has stopped working and has recovered. This whole process is quite quick, only taking some 20-30 seconds.

http://img.techpowerup.org/100214/1delete.jpg

Yaaaay Im in the Pic, I notice the artifacts that I get as well, happens now and again, I just wish I knew wat the hell is wrong with the 2 crysis games, I mean every other game I got plays perfectly, crazy performance but not in crysis, maybe a memory leak, not sure wat they are exactly but gonna wait for the 10.2 drivers and see any improvements.

 

[t_ski]

That is one crazy overclock you got both on ur CPU and HD5970, Nice!

I can go higher on the GPU (mem is maxed), but it needs more voltage. I should be able to go higher on the volts, as my vregs were only hitting about 92-93C.

 

[Black Panther]

That is one crazy overclock you got both on ur CPU and HD5970, Nice!

+99 That's just... magnificent. I just wish I had your processor lol
I think you got one of the top rigs on tpu.

Yaaaay Im in the Pic,

And you got measles


Well at least I know now my card is okay, it's pretty evident this is a driver issue.

I'll be installing Warhead over the next couple of days and giving you feedback on it.

Crysis... I gotta wait because I lent the game to my brother and he lost the booklet with the game ID stuff well it's in their house somewhere but still... :shadedshu

Has anyone tried Dirt2? I must say it impressed me. That's how I expected GTAIV to look like... heck I spent till 2AM in the morning between racing crashing and gawking at the DX11 scenery. And I had to go to work in the AM...

 

[Glazierman]

Wow,
Got my first Black Card these are a massive size card, but pulling my hair out on second card micro center cancelled on me so now I'm shopping again for second card. And waiting on my friggin bank to release my money and yes today IS a bank holiday.

 

[t_ski]

+99 That's just... magnificent. I just wish I had your processor lol
I think you got one of the top rigs on tpu.

Thanks - I like my rig very much. Lots of fun to build, but I had to go through three CPU's and two motherboards to find something that worked this well. Now if only I could find a crazy steal on a second 5970

Has anyone tried Dirt2? I must say it impressed me. That's how I expected GTAIV to look like... heck I spent till 2AM in the morning between racing crashing and gawking at the DX11 scenery. And I had to go to work in the AM...

I have only played the demo (still need to DL the full version I got with my card), and enjoyed it quite a bit. Graphics are excellent.

 

[Lionheart]

Yeah Man I've played the full version for a while now, its quiet a good game to be honest and what makes it even better is that it was free lol, I had 3 copies of the game but gave 2 away to a friend!

 

[Black Panther]

Wow,
Got my first Black Card these are a massive size card, but pulling my hair out on second card micro center cancelled on me so now I'm shopping again for second card. And waiting on my friggin bank to release my money and yes today IS a bank holiday.

That's unfortunate. But believe me you'll find ways to kill time now that your first card arrived!

 

[Glazierman]

No, I'll wait till the second card is in place before I fire this thing up. I'm not so computer savy and it would be easier for me to do this once in the bios than twice, if I was a little more experianced you bet I would!!!

 

[t_ski]

It would probably be easier to do the single card now, then make a few minor changes when you get the second card. Besides, if you have a problem with the first card, it is often better if you can identify it early in case you need to RMA it.

 

[Black Panther]

I agree with t_ski, firstly for the reason he mentions that if you run into a problem while running both you would then be able to easily identify the source of the problem.

If I were you, I'd install the 5970 you have now.
Then when the second one arrives, I'd remove the 'old' 5970 and put the new one in its place. That way you'd verify that both function fine and correct.

Only after being sure of the performance of both would I SLI them.

Don't be disencouraged for what you say is 'lack of savvyness'. I'm sure you're being very modest, and even if not, you'll be finding plenty of help from this thread and from the rest of TPU from other members who've already got experience in cross-fire and quad-fire.

Trying 2 cards in quad fire at once, it would be more difficult to troubleshoot in the case of a problem. And well.... as I posted before, you don't know what you're missing leaving that brand new xfx in the box!!!

I dunno if you read the first page of this thread, but when I got my card and found out it didn't fit by some 5mm due to the width of the hdd cage I went crazy.
Pantherx12 had already offered to send me a special cage for free, and even weren't it so I could've bought a new case... BUT I couldn't wait lol so I 'modded' (kinda, for lack of a better word!) my case "Bud Spencer style" and I don't even regret having done so!

Check my setup photo below for teh lolz, and note how the hdd cage on the mobo side is a tad convex.... I pulled it out with pliers and the metal stretched (that's why I described it as Bud Spencer style), and my 5970 slid beautifully inside...

 

[Glazierman]

start up

Ok, so
I understand what your saying so when I plug this thing in do I load windows or update the Bios first And here's the latest pick. I'm telling you this is my first build in five years and I'm a little nervous.

 

[Lionheart]

Nice crazy arse system you got there bro, it looks like you went extremely stupidly high end, congrats on ur build and dont be nervous, you'll be fine, might need to fix up the cable management a bit when you got the time.

 

[t_ski]

Ok, so
I understand what your saying so when I plug this thing in do I load windows or update the Bios first And here's the latest pick. I'm telling you this is my first build in five years and I'm a little nervous.

Find out what BIOS you have, and do some research on your mobo and see which BIOS is most recommended. If you already have that BIOS, then just go straight to loading Windows.