Radeon Evergreen Islands Club (HD 5xxx/6xxx/7xxx/8xxx)

Chevalr1c · Oct 5, 2012, 08:40 PM

I felt the urge to start the Radeon Archipelago Club with my HD 6670 DDR3, being the first Northern Islands card in the club. Still looking for the first person with a (few) Southern Islands card(s) in possesion to join. And we have found M1dg3t as the first HD 7xxx owning member.

All HD 5xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx series cards are welcome, as well as Sea Islands cards (including review samples of those 8xxx's

). Multimedia cards (e.g. HD 6450) included, as long as they are dedicated because APUs belong to a CPU club IMHO.

Pictures and benchmarks of my HD 6670 will come soon, albeit nothing that impressive can be expected of the benchies (being at 1280x1024 helps though

).

Note: Posting 3DMark Vantage benchies is of course appreciated, but because we haven't yet standardised and "scientificised" (

) the benchmarks this is not having much of a point. I shall post info about this later (we especially have to see to deal with the difference in resolutions and the fact that the basic version of 3DMark (except edition 11) don't allow for resolution changes makes it tricky for me to do this in 5 mins so I will come back to you later). See below the list of members to see details about the benchmarking.

List of Members*

HD 5xxx owners, in order of entry	WCG GPU cruncher?	Card(s)	Special names, comments etc.
gdallsk		HD 5770
gdallsk		HD 5870
repman24		HD 5870
m1dg3t		5870	V2 @ 900/1275 (Asus)
Rahmat Sofyan		2x HD 5870	(Asus & Sapphire)
MT Alex		2x 5870	in CrossFireX, watercooled
Guitarrassdeamor		HD 5850
Sasqui		HD 5870	XXX (XFX)
Novulux		HD 5770	(Asus)
theoneandonlymrk		HD 5870	@ HD 5850 clocks, watercooled and in CFX
JP		HD 5770	(Sapphire, SKU# 11163-02), OC @ 900/1250 (Redid TIM)
Radical_Edward		HD 5850	(Asus)
qu4k3r		HD HD5670	IceQ 1GB GDDR5 (HIS)
qu4k3r		2x HD5830	Xtreme 1GB GDDR5 (Sapphire) (CFX?)
agent00skid	Y	HD 5650	Mobility
dude12564		HD 5450
TacoTown		HD 5770
Gamerguy		HD5770	VX (Sapphire)
FreedomEclipse		2x HD 5850	(Sapphire)
FreedomEclipse		HD 5850	(Asus DirectCU II)
Grnfinger		HD 5970X2
Grnfinger		HD 5770
Octopuss		HD 5850
Fatal		2x HD 5770	(XFX)

HD 6xxx owners, in order of entry	WCG GPU cruncher?	Card(s)	Special names, comments etc.
Chevalr1c	Y	HD 6670	GDDR3 (Sapphire)
AlienIsGod		HD 6870	sold to someone
James888		HD 6950
Aquinus		2x HD 6870	in CrosFireX
TRWOV		HD 6950
PopcornMachine		HD 6950
Capitan Harlock		HD 6950
Darkleoco		2x HD 6950	in CrossFireX
Brandonwh64		2x HD 6950	in CrosFireX, both unlocked.
patrico		HD 6950
javaking		HD 6870
ThE_MaD_ShOt	Y	2x HD 6850	in CrosFireX (XFX Double D & Visiontek)
Sasqui		HD 6850	(MSI)
Novulux		HD 6450
Novulux		HD 6670	GDDR3
Novulux		2x HD 6770	in CFX
Durvell27		HD 6950	2GB
jmcslob		HD 6950	unlocked
AthlonXP		HD 6970
H82LUZ73		HD 6970	in CFX
qu4k3r		HD6790	1GB GDDR5 x2 (Powercolor, CFX)
Random_Murderer		2x HD 6850	reference HIS model & 1 Visiontek with a revised power section, both with a customised BIOS
Bow		2x HD 6950	in CFX (Sapphire)
Super XP		HD 6970	(Sapphire)
Corduroy_Jr		HD 6850	Direct CU II (Asus)
TacoTown		HD 6870
GreiverBlade		HD 6950	CoolStream Edition (Club3D)
GreiverBlade		HD 6850	Black Edition (XFX)
Gamerguy		HD6990	(Sapphire)
FreedomEclipse		2x HD 6970
Itsakjt		HD 6770
Grnfinger		2x HD 6870
SirKeldon		HD 6850	(Asus EAH) overclocked at 790/1100 (watercooled)
TotalChaos		2x HD 6950	in CFX (Sapphire)
Norton	Y	HD 6870	Hawk (MSI)
Fatal		2x HD 6950	(XFX)
N0tiert		HD 6990	(Sapphire)

HD 7xxx owners, in order of entry	WCG GPU cruncher?	Card(s)	Special names, comments etc.
M1dg3t		HD 7950	TwinFrozr III
mediasorcerer		HD 7950
UbErN00b		HD 7950	OC (Sapphire)
BarabaricSoul		HD 7970	Core Edition (XFX)
crazyeyesreaper		HD 7970	DirectCu II TOP (Asus)
adulaamin		HD 7970
Widjaja		HD 7870	Directcu II Ghz Edition (Asus)
Jack1n		HD 7950
Guitarrassdeamor		HD 7970	(Gigabyte)
the54thvoid		2x HD 7970	LCS (Powercolor) & OC (MSI), both watercooled and in CrossFireX.
Novulux		HD 7870	OC (Sapphire)
da_vid		2x HD 7770	in CFX
3870x2		HD 7950
thE_MaD_ShOt	Y	2x HD 7850 OC Edition	Visiontek
JNUKZ		HD 7770
manofthem	Y	2x HD 7970	(Asus & Sapphire), watercooled and in CFX
Radical_Edward		HD 7970	(MSI)
exodusprime1337		HD 7970's	@ 1200/1675, in CFX
Jetster		HD 7950
Random_Murderer		2x 7970	reference models (1 Asus and 1 Visiontek), both flashed with XFX Black Edition firmware
erocker		HD 7970
The Von Matrices		HD 7970
Joellim		HD 7970
camoxiong		HD 7770
Rcoon		HD 7950	DD (XFX) in CFX
Kaynar		HD 7970	BE DD (XFX, old bios with unlocked voltage)
James888	Y	HD 7970	Watercooled, OC to 1250/1600 (Sapphire)
SonDa5		HD7950	950mhz edition (Sapphire), watercooled
[Ion]	Y	3 x HD7770	GHz Edition (MSI, not in CFX)
[Ion]	Y	HD 7950	3 GB (Sapphire)
[Ion]	Y	HD 7930	2 GB (Powercolor)
[Ion]	Y	HD 7850	2 GB TwinFrozr (MSI)
TB13		HD 7970	(XFX)
AlienIsGod	Y	HD 7870	2GB OC (Sapphire)
AlienIsGod	Y	HD 7770
Gamerguy		3x HD7970	1 Powercolor with non-reference cooler & 2 reference models (Saphire & Club 3D), in CFX
Norton	Y	3x HD 7770
Norton	Y	2x HD 7870
Grnfinger		2x HD 7870
Okidna		HIS HD 7850	iCooler
...Pacman...		HD 7850	OC 2GB (Sapphire)
HammerOn	Y	3x HD 7970	(VisionTek, crunching/gaming rig)
HammerOn	Y	3x HD 7770	(VisionTek)
TommyT		HD 7950 OC	950 core and 1300 ram (Sapphire)
Sasqui		HD 7870	PCS+ (Powercolor)
D1nky		HD 7770	2gb OC (CFX)
Techtard		HD 7970	Dual-X @ 1200/1500 (Sapphire)
ST.Viper		HD 7870	Ghz Edition (Sapphire)
Greiverblade		HD 7950	DD 2 GB(XFX)

HD 8xxx owners, in order of entry

WCG GPU cruncher?

Card(s)

Special names, comments etc.

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The EIC Massmark

Okay, the "massmark" will not include any game benchmarks because I don't want to lock out people who don't own certain games and keeping stuff blank is useless. It includes Furnark (only 6 mins in bench mode, so your card will be safe), Heaven 3.0 and 3Dmark 11, using the settings as specified in the document in the first link below. I will throw the matter in SPSS or PSPP to analyse the data after we are done filling in the spreadsheet. I hope and assume you will be honest about this, so no screenshots are needed.

Documentation with guidelines and information on the test settings

You should know enough now, to be able to fill in your stuff in the spreadsheet (link below).

Spreadsheet to fill in your data - Fixed the issue with the forgotten column!

Closing time will be december 1st, assuming that those who did not participate yet at that moment did not want to.

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* All cards seeming to be of reference design won't get the brands specified, because it wouldn't make sense to do so. If your card is non-reference, please specify the brand. Else giving the model nummer (HD xxxx) is sufficient.
Exceptions to this are multicard setup in order to have better clarity.
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AlienIsGOD · Oct 5, 2012, 08:49 PM

me and my trusty Sapphire 6870 are in

m1dg3t · Oct 5, 2012, 08:52 PM

7950 owner here

Chevalr1c · Oct 5, 2012, 09:03 PM

Welcome AlienIsGod and your 6850.

And we got our first SI entry in this topic. Good.

Welcome to you too M1dg3t.

james888 · Oct 5, 2012, 09:05 PM

Currently using my older, but not old, 6950. Want to get my 7970 going again though.

Aquinus · Oct 5, 2012, 09:07 PM

You know, I got two lovely 6870s that do great. One of them is a reference card that I ordered the day they were released. I was upgrading from a Radeon HD 4850.

AlienIsGOD · Oct 5, 2012, 09:18 PM

Pic of my model, not an actual pic as my case is untidy and has been deemed so by the "Your PC atm" thread

TRWOV · Oct 5, 2012, 09:40 PM

Can my 6950 ghetto edition join?

AlienIsGOD · Oct 5, 2012, 09:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aquinus

I was upgrading from a Radeon HD 4850.

I came from crossfired Sapphire 4850s (512MB) to the 6870

james888 · Oct 5, 2012, 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRWOV

Can my 6950 ghetto edition join?

http://imageshack.us/a/img515/166/img0188fb.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img696/733/img0194bk.jpg

I got a second 6950 like that one. I don't use it because it is a problem child gpu. One day it works, the other it decides not to.

Chevalr1c · Oct 5, 2012, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRWOV

Can my 6950 ghetto edition join?

http://imageshack.us/a/img515/166/img0188fb.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img696/733/img0194bk.jpg

Nice cooler. Did you simply change the stock fans or did you do more to it?

m1dg3t · Oct 6, 2012, 12:00 AM

I am tempted to do the same mod to my 7950 TRWOV!! Still waiting for the retrofit kit for my WB and I'm kinda wanting to slap it all together on air for a lil test it all out

PopcornMachine · Oct 6, 2012, 01:00 AM

Me and my 6950 are on the islands man.

TRWOV · Oct 6, 2012, 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chevalr1c

Nice cooler. Did you simply change the stock fans or did you do more to it?

It's a Sapphire HD6950 2GB with broken fans that I got used for $120

(+$32 shipping from the US

) I removed the fan assembly and wedged two standard 80mm fans on it:

I thought I'd have to use zip ties to hold the fans but pressure was enough.

Chevalr1c · Oct 6, 2012, 03:05 AM

Indeed pressure seems to be enough, judging from the pictures.

mediasorcerer · Oct 6, 2012, 04:25 AM

Can i join this or what? With my 7950 etc???

eidairaman1 · Oct 6, 2012, 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mediasorcerer

Can i join this or what? With my 7950 etc???

read the title dude

it states HD 6K, 7K, 8K

so youre eligible to join

mediasorcerer · Oct 6, 2012, 06:14 AM

I had one of those sapphire 6950,s in my last rigg, quite an ok card . Dont like the look of the plastic shroud much but, so long as it works.

Capitan Harlock · Oct 6, 2012, 06:28 AM

im in too with my xfx hd6950 1gb XD

Chevalr1c · Oct 8, 2012, 05:56 PM

As promised, here are pics and overclock results. I used Akasa thermally conductive adhesive tape to ad heatsinks to the back of the VRAM chips at the back of the card.

The cooler does not look surprisingly beautiful, but does its work well (very quiet and cool, around 30C GPU temp even when slightly overclocked)

GPU-Z validation of the OC: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ghkf/

I managed to OC until 860/782 from 800/667, not bad. Metro 2033 went from 28.67 fps average (min 5.37, max 63.52) to 32 fps average (minimum 5.66, maximum 78.55). Mind you, in the middle section of each loop there is a massive frame drop that represents the usual game performance badly.
Here are the links to .zip archives with the HTML reports:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0au7c6310mwwdm9 (stock, i.e. 800/667)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ajibv4q5sbktxi9 (860/782)

Heaven 3.0 showed some improvements as well, although the settings I have used were a bit weird (medium shader quality, high tex quality, no AA, 4x bilineair AF but with Ambient Oclusion etc.).

BTW, it plays all my games just fine at stock settings, so probably I will keep it at stock to guarantee its durability.

eidairaman1 · Oct 8, 2012, 06:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chevalr1c

As promised, here are pics and overclock results. I used Akasa thermally conductive adhesive tape to ad heatsinks to the back of the VRAM chips at the back of the card.

http://img.techpowerup.org/121008/Sa...RAM HS mod.jpg

The cooler does not look surprisingly beautiful, but does its work well (very quiet and cool, around 30C GPU temp even when slightly overclocked)

http://us.sapphiretech.com/mc/images...53_600_600.jpg

GPU-Z validation of the OC: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ghkf/

I managed to OC until 860/782 from 800/667, not bad. Metro 2033 went from 28.67 fps average (min 5.37, max 63.52) to 32 fps average (minimum 5.66, maximum 78.55). Mind you, in the middle section of each loop there is a massive frame drop that represents the usual game performance badly.
Here are the links to .zip archives with the HTML reports:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0au7c6310mwwdm9 (stock, i.e. 800/667)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ajibv4q5sbktxi9 (860/782)

Heaven 3.0 showed some improvements as well, although the settings I have used were a bit weird (medium shader quality, high tex quality, no AA, 4x bilineair AF but with Ambient Oclusion etc.).
http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums/...ps04755ec9.jpg

BTW, it plays all my games just fine at stock settings, so probably I will keep it at stock to guarantee its durability.

So Akasa Has thermal adhesive tape? I thought they only had a TIM which were applied to heatsinks. I used AS Epoxy mixed with AS5 compound for heatsinks on my laptop video cards ram.

Chevalr1c · Oct 8, 2012, 06:16 PM

I dislike epoxy because it is permanent. That "tape" (although it comes in shape of a square) isn't so the HS can be removed if necessary, without damaging the components. http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?t...del=AK-TT12-80

UbErN00b · Oct 8, 2012, 06:29 PM

Count me in Sapphire HD 7950 OC

gdallsk · Oct 8, 2012, 06:34 PM

do the 5000 series count in?

Darkleoco · Oct 8, 2012, 07:01 PM

Can my crossfire 6950's get in? I can run some benchmarks and such after Friday when I am home for fall break

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Motherboard:	ASRock P45XE/MSI 785GTM-E45
Cooling:	Asus Triton 75 with 120mm Nexus fan / Scythe Shuriken
Memory:	OCZ Platinum 1066MHz (effective), 4 GB / Crucial Ballistix 1066MHz (effective), 2 GB
Video Card:	Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 / Onboard graphics (i.e. Radeon 4200)
Hard Disk:	Kingston SSDNow V300 (120GB) + Seagate Baracuda 7200.12 (500 GB) / two laptop drives of WD in RAID0
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Oct 5, 2012, 08:49 PM	#2
AlienIsGOD Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Kingston, Ontario Canada Posts: 2,599 (1.49/day) Thanks: 4,320 Thanked 1,100 Times in 628 Posts System Specs	me and my trusty Sapphire 6870 are in __________________ Crunching Badges Crunching Hardware CPU: i5 3570K and i5 2400 = 8 cores GPU: 7870 (8 wu's) and 7770 (4 wu's) = 1920 GCN cores (no GPU wu's atm)

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Oct 5, 2012, 08:52 PM	#3
m1dg3t Join Date: May 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 1,887 (1.72/day) Thanks: 626 Thanked 421 Times in 346 Posts System Specs	7950 owner here __________________ Why dazzle 'em with brilliance when you can baffle 'em with bullshit. Alterius non sit, qui potest esse sui! Und setzet ihr nicht das leben ein, Nie wird euch das leben gewonnen sein! If knowledge is power, then ignorance is bliss! If god didn't want them sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep!

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Oct 5, 2012, 09:03 PM	#4
Chevalr1c Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Tilburg, Netherlands Posts: 2,058 (2.07/day) Thanks: 4,952 Thanked 785 Times in 531 Posts System Specs	Welcome AlienIsGod and your 6850. And we got our first SI entry in this topic. Good. Welcome to you too M1dg3t. __________________ My FS/FT thread (EU only) \| DynMap of the TPU Minecraft server \| Quick monitor calibration guide \| Boot Failure Troubleshooting Chart \| Solar Team Eindhoven Family Car Project Using BOINC I crunch numbers for World Community Grid, Climateprediction, Free Rainbow Tables and POEM@home; hence assisting research.

Oct 5, 2012, 09:05 PM	#5
james888 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Idaho Posts: 2,275 (3.27/day) Thanks: 456 Thanked 429 Times in 320 Posts System Specs	Currently using my older, but not old, 6950. Want to get my 7970 going again though. __________________ My Heat Natural Selection 2 (NS2) - FPS/RTS with depth. Link. Studios and publishers seem to have forgotten that games are supposed to be games, not CG films with playable action scenes. Link.

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Oct 5, 2012, 09:07 PM	#6
Aquinus Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Dover, New Hampshire, USA Posts: 4,257 (8.86/day) Thanks: 1,274 Thanked 1,326 Times in 984 Posts System Specs	You know, I got two lovely 6870s that do great. One of them is a reference card that I ordered the day they were released. I was upgrading from a Radeon HD 4850. __________________ MyHeat

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Oct 5, 2012, 09:18 PM	#7
AlienIsGOD Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Kingston, Ontario Canada Posts: 2,599 (1.49/day) Thanks: 4,320 Thanked 1,100 Times in 628 Posts System Specs	Pic of my model, not an actual pic as my case is untidy and has been deemed so by the "Your PC atm" thread __________________ Crunching Badges Crunching Hardware CPU: i5 3570K and i5 2400 = 8 cores GPU: 7870 (8 wu's) and 7770 (4 wu's) = 1920 GCN cores (no GPU wu's atm)

Oct 5, 2012, 09:40 PM	#8
TRWOV Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Mexico Posts: 2,054 (3.16/day) Thanks: 793 Thanked 1,068 Times in 553 Posts System Specs	Can my 6950 ghetto edition join? __________________ My other rigs: OCTANUX - Conroe865PE - QX6800 - 4GB OCZ Platinum EL - HIS HD4670 AGP - SB Audigy 2 ZS - BFG PPU phenomenal - AM2NF3-VSTA - 965BE - 8GB OCZ Platinum LV - HIS HD3850 AGP - SB X-Fi - Asus PPU - WIP Green Tea - 939A8X-M - FX60 - 4GB OCZ Platinum EL - 7950GT AGP Re-build - CT-6VTA2 - PIII 600E - 384MB PC133 - Voodoo 5500 AGP - SB16 ISA BLUELINE - H61M-GE - PDC G645 - 8GB DDR3-1333 - Powercolor HD7750 - 2xTV Wonder 650

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Oct 6, 2012, 12:00 AM	#12
m1dg3t Join Date: May 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 1,887 (1.72/day) Thanks: 626 Thanked 421 Times in 346 Posts System Specs	I am tempted to do the same mod to my 7950 TRWOV!! Still waiting for the retrofit kit for my WB and I'm kinda wanting to slap it all together on air for a lil test it all out __________________ Why dazzle 'em with brilliance when you can baffle 'em with bullshit. Alterius non sit, qui potest esse sui! Und setzet ihr nicht das leben ein, Nie wird euch das leben gewonnen sein! If knowledge is power, then ignorance is bliss! If god didn't want them sheared, he wouldn't have made them sheep!

Oct 6, 2012, 01:00 AM	#13
PopcornMachine Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Los Angeles/Orange County CA Posts: 1,125 (0.82/day) Thanks: 1,991 Thanked 372 Times in 302 Posts System Specs	Me and my 6950 are on the islands man.

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Oct 6, 2012, 03:05 AM	#15
Chevalr1c Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Tilburg, Netherlands Posts: 2,058 (2.07/day) Thanks: 4,952 Thanked 785 Times in 531 Posts System Specs	Indeed pressure seems to be enough, judging from the pictures. __________________ My FS/FT thread (EU only) \| DynMap of the TPU Minecraft server \| Quick monitor calibration guide \| Boot Failure Troubleshooting Chart \| Solar Team Eindhoven Family Car Project Using BOINC I crunch numbers for World Community Grid, Climateprediction, Free Rainbow Tables and POEM@home; hence assisting research.

Oct 6, 2012, 04:25 AM	#16
mediasorcerer Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: coast ,melbourne Posts: 942 (1.53/day) Thanks: 709 Thanked 235 Times in 169 Posts System Specs	Can i join this or what? With my 7950 etc??? __________________ his masters voice Illuminous Epanoia Technocrati

System Name:	THE MEDIAMACHINE
Processor:	i5-3570k
Motherboard:	Asus gene v z-77 matx.
Cooling:	Antec h20 620
Memory:	2x4gb g.skill ripjaws z 2400
Video Card:	h.i.s radeon 7950 reference 3 gb- hooray!!!
Hard Disk:	samsung 128gb~830 ssd. samsung 500gb hdrive.
Optical Drive:	samsung super writemaster
CRT/LCD Model:	22 inch tele.
Case:	circa 1996 grey rat box with no sides front.until my own is finished
Sound Card:	inbuilt creative.supreme effects 3
PSU:	thermaltake tt-500w
Software:	win 7 x64-
Benchmarks:	Coming soon

System Name:	BS03/04
Processor:	AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ 2.2GHz 1.5V
Motherboard:	DFI LanParty NFII Ultra-B Bios (TicTac 3D Fire R2)
Cooling:	4 Antec 80mm, TR SI-97 Adapted TT Big Typhoon Fan 120MM
Memory:	2GB Mushkin Redline 4000 @ 200 MHz 2.5V
Video Card:	Sapphire R1950Pro 512MB AGP 1.5V
Hard Disk:	250 & 400 GB Seagate Baracuda 10 SATA
Optical Drive:	2x Samsung Multiformat Rewritable Drives
CRT/LCD Model:	NEC Multisync LCD 1700V
Case:	Antec SX830 EATX Case
Sound Card:	Creative Labs SB XFi Xtreme Music & SB PCI 512
PSU:	Antec NEO HE 500 Watt
Software:	Windows 7 Home Premium
Benchmarks:	Win 7 Eval. CPU 3.9 Ram 4.5 Graphics 6.0 HD 5.7

Oct 6, 2012, 06:14 AM	#18
mediasorcerer Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: coast ,melbourne Posts: 942 (1.53/day) Thanks: 709 Thanked 235 Times in 169 Posts System Specs	I had one of those sapphire 6950,s in my last rigg, quite an ok card . Dont like the look of the plastic shroud much but, so long as it works. __________________ his masters voice Illuminous Epanoia Technocrati

Oct 6, 2012, 06:28 AM	#19
Capitan Harlock Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: near Milan Posts: 328 (0.67/day) Thanks: 355 Thanked 41 Times in 36 Posts System Specs	im in too with my xfx hd6950 1gb XD

Processor:	intel core 2 quad q9400 @ 3.2 ghz
Motherboard:	MSI P45 Neo-F socket lga 775
Cooling:	Thermalright Archon +Ty 140mm\|2 front-1top-1rear-1bottom
Memory:	8gb ddr2 Kingstone 800mhz @960mhz
Video Card:	xfx hd 6950 1gb xxx edition dual fan oc 900/1450 v1.100
Hard Disk:	seagate barracuda 7200rpm 2tb sata + western digital caviar green 1tb sata
Optical Drive:	external dvd burner lg double layer
CRT/LCD Model:	Asus ML229h 21"5 1920x1080
Case:	Fractal design Arc midi
Sound Card:	realtek hd integrated + 5.1 BHT1100 BLUESKY,Corsair Vengeance 1500 usb,Creative live 24 external usb
PSU:	Thermaltake toughpower xt 775watt modular
Software:	Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

Oct 8, 2012, 05:56 PM	#20
Chevalr1c Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Tilburg, Netherlands Posts: 2,058 (2.07/day) Thanks: 4,952 Thanked 785 Times in 531 Posts System Specs	As promised, here are pics and overclock results. I used Akasa thermally conductive adhesive tape to ad heatsinks to the back of the VRAM chips at the back of the card. The cooler does not look surprisingly beautiful, but does its work well (very quiet and cool, around 30C GPU temp even when slightly overclocked) GPU-Z validation of the OC: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ghkf/ I managed to OC until 860/782 from 800/667, not bad. Metro 2033 went from 28.67 fps average (min 5.37, max 63.52) to 32 fps average (minimum 5.66, maximum 78.55). Mind you, in the middle section of each loop there is a massive frame drop that represents the usual game performance badly. Here are the links to .zip archives with the HTML reports: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0au7c6310mwwdm9 (stock, i.e. 800/667) http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ajibv4q5sbktxi9 (860/782) Heaven 3.0 showed some improvements as well, although the settings I have used were a bit weird (medium shader quality, high tex quality, no AA, 4x bilineair AF but with Ambient Oclusion etc.). BTW, it plays all my games just fine at stock settings, so probably I will keep it at stock to guarantee its durability. __________________ My FS/FT thread (EU only) \| DynMap of the TPU Minecraft server \| Quick monitor calibration guide \| Boot Failure Troubleshooting Chart \| Solar Team Eindhoven Family Car Project Using BOINC I crunch numbers for World Community Grid, Climateprediction, Free Rainbow Tables and POEM@home; hence assisting research.

Oct 8, 2012, 06:16 PM	#22
Chevalr1c Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Tilburg, Netherlands Posts: 2,058 (2.07/day) Thanks: 4,952 Thanked 785 Times in 531 Posts System Specs	I dislike epoxy because it is permanent. That "tape" (although it comes in shape of a square) isn't so the HS can be removed if necessary, without damaging the components. http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?t...del=AK-TT12-80 __________________ My FS/FT thread (EU only) \| DynMap of the TPU Minecraft server \| Quick monitor calibration guide \| Boot Failure Troubleshooting Chart \| Solar Team Eindhoven Family Car Project Using BOINC I crunch numbers for World Community Grid, Climateprediction, Free Rainbow Tables and POEM@home; hence assisting research.

Oct 8, 2012, 06:29 PM	#23
UbErN00b Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Ingerland Posts: 222 (0.86/day) Thanks: 36 Thanked 46 Times in 35 Posts System Specs	Count me in Sapphire HD 7950 OC

System Name:	le me gaming and porn rig!!
Processor:	2500k
Motherboard:	GA-Z68X-UD3-b3
Cooling:	Air baby!
Memory:	8GB 2000mhz dual channel
Video Card:	Sapphire Vapor X HD 7950 3GB
Hard Disk:	Corsair Force 3 240GB & 2TB HDD
Optical Drive:	N/A
CRT/LCD Model:	Catleap 1440p ;)
Case:	CM Storm Sniper
Sound Card:	HUD-MX1 headphone amp/DAC
PSU:	Corsair TX750

Oct 8, 2012, 06:34 PM	#24
gdallsk Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Northampton,UK Posts: 60 (0.15/day) Thanks: 11 Thanked 15 Times in 12 Posts System Specs	do the 5000 series count in?

Processor:	Q6600 3.6 GHZ/E5200 2.5 GHZ
Motherboard:	Gigabyte GA-EP45C-DS3R/ASUS P5N-MX
Cooling:	Zalman CNPS10X Performa/ Stock Cooler
Memory:	2Gb A-Data+ 2x1GB Corsair 800 mhz DDR2/ 4Gb Nanya 667 mhz DDR2
Video Card:	Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB/Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB
Hard Disk:	Hitachi DeskStar 750 GB 7200RPM/Seagate Barracuda 80 GB
Optical Drive:	LG DVDRW/LG DVDRW
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung SyncMaster T200/32" Samsung HDTV
Case:	Novatech something.../Mesh PC something
Sound Card:	Realtek HD Audio/ AMD HD Audio
PSU:	Corsair TX650/ Foxconn 350W
Software:	Win7 Professional 64bit/Win7 Home Premium 32bit

Oct 8, 2012, 07:01 PM	#25
Darkleoco Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Cullowhee, North Carolina Posts: 1,333 (2.17/day) Thanks: 660 Thanked 238 Times in 213 Posts System Specs	Can my crossfire 6950's get in? I can run some benchmarks and such after Friday when I am home for fall break __________________

System Name:	Red Giant
Processor:	Intel Core i7-2600k @ 4.4 Ghz
Motherboard:	Asus P67 Sabertooth
Cooling:	CoolerMaster V6GT
Memory:	Kingston Hyper X DDR3-1600MHz 8 GB
Video Card:	MSI Twin Frozr II 6950 2GB CF
Hard Disk:	2 TB Barracuda Greens
CRT/LCD Model:	23" Acer 1920 x 1080
Case:	CoolerMaster HAF X
Sound Card:	Onboard
PSU:	Corsair AX1200
Software:	Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

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