The HD 5970 Clubhouse

[Lionheart]

Yo guys, I dont think I belong here anymore as I sold my XFX HD5970 crack edition and now I got 2 HIS HD5870's in crossfire mode and its working perfectly now, Im so relieved I have a stable system finally stupid drivers and GSOD, but anyways PEACE

 

[Glazierman]

tiger direct

T.D. have 5970's in stock and I now have two Blacks. Sure hope I have better luck than Killa LOL. Also waiting on 20 amp surge protector. Soon real soon.

 

[Black Panther]

@ Killa, I'm glad to see you're happy with your new purchases, but at the same time sad at having you leave!

I'll amend the first post to say 'ex-owner'


@ Glazierman: I was just going to check but apparently today a new driver was released?

In a way I wish Killa gave it a little bit more time...




Edit: Catalyst 10.2 was released today. I'm d/l and installing it now.

 

[Lionheart]

T.D. have 5970's in stock and I now have two Blacks. Sure hope I have better luck than Killa LOL. Also waiting on 20 amp surge protector. Soon real soon.

I hope you have better luck then me as well, enjoy your beasts bro!

@ Killa, I'm glad to see you're happy with your new purchases, but at the same time sad at having you leave!

I'll amend the first post to say 'ex-owner'


@ Glazierman: I was just going to check but apparently today a new driver was released?

In a way I wish Killa gave it a little bit more time...

I wish I gave it more time as well, maybe these drivers could have solved my issues that I had with the HD5970


Edit: Catalyst 10.2 was released today. I'm d/l and installing it now.

lol ex owner, dont worry, I will visit still, just not as much

Let me know how the drivers go man, my internet has gone over its download cap, aussie net is BS

 

[Black Panther]

I haven't yet tested out the drivers - it was late after I installed!

The main (and only) issues I've had since now were occasionally, usually after running some game, I get 'measles' on the monitor and the catalyst driver restarts. This never happens in-game, and the process takes some 15-20 seconds to 'refresh', so it doesn't bother me that much...

Then the other issue is that I can't run WEI. OK I know Vista index is nothing special, but when I attempt to run it my monitor goes black, though not in standby, and remains like that until I do a hard-boot. Otherwise all games and benchmarks tried run fine so far.

Does anything like that happen if you run WEI? Personally I haven't as yet heard about this problem. WEI used to run fine when I had the 8800GT, same cpu overclock and all. I tried running it under 2 or 3 different drivers and still no go...

 

[t_ski]

Your "measles" sounds like heat issues to me...

 

[Black Panther]

Your "measles" sounds like heat issues to me...

That's what I thought as well.
However, the measles (artifacts?) occur only while in 2D mode - browsing the net, browsing folders etc. Card behaves impeccably in-game (when it should be heating up the most).

I checked temperatures and they're 44 degrees idle, and 77-78 degrees load (after running the latest FurMark in 'burn mode' for over 30 minutes). I think the temps are acceptable for an ATI card? This is my first ATI... lol well my 8800GT used to idle at 75 degrees and load at 88-91 degrees, so my current temps with this 5970 seem awesomely cool to me


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Anyways, so I just started up my pc with the new catalyst 10.2 and ran WEI...... successfully for the first time since I got this card. So something got better with this driver for sure.

(I got a 5.7 base score on Vista's index... i.e. 5.7 for the HDD data transfer rate and 5.9 for all the rest.)

 

[nt300]

Did you hear about the new card AMD is coming out with to take on Nvidia Fermi?
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=1770403#post1770403

 

[Black Panther]

Did you hear about the new card AMD is coming out with to take on Nvidia Fermi?
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=1770403#post1770403

I'll leave it up to someone else to start a "Trillian Clubhouse". This club's for the 5970

Yay today I'm going home early - I'll run some benchmarks to see how the 10.2 Catalyst compares with the previous ones. I stayed for some hour or two on the net yesterday and got no artifacting/measles, but it's too early to get very happy about that...

Glazierman: how is the installation going? Do treat us to some hardware pr0n, it's not like one sees two XFX 5970's every day...

 

[Black Panther]

DiRT2 Benchmark

10.1 driver:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <!-- Benchmark Mode Results
-->
- <!-- author: BlackPanther
-->
- <!-- date: 23:41:40 on 16/02/2010
-->
- <!-- machine: BlackPanther-PC
-->
- <benchmark>
<average min_fps="52.168236" av_fps="62.314766" min_fps_ms="19.168753" av_fps_ms="16.047562" />
- <track>
- <settings name="battersea" route="route_1">
<car name="sti" />
<car name="bmw" />
<car name="e9r" />
<car name="cr4" />
<car name="sor" />
<car name="sti" />
<car name="350" />
<car name="mer" />
</settings>
<results samples="5768" min_fps="52.168236" av_fps="62.314766" min_fps_ms="19.168753" av_fps_ms="16.047562" />
</track>
</benchmark>

10.2 driver:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <!-- Benchmark Mode Results
-->
- <!-- author: BlackPanther
-->
- <!-- date: 15:25:25 on 19/02/2010
-->
- <!-- machine: BlackPanther-PC
-->
- <benchmark>
<average min_fps="52.770115" av_fps="62.278591" min_fps_ms="18.950119" av_fps_ms="16.056883" />
- <track>
- <settings name="battersea" route="route_1">
<car name="sti" />
<car name="bmw" />
<car name="e9r" />
<car name="cr4" />
<car name="sor" />
<car name="sti" />
<car name="350" />
<car name="mer" />
</settings>
<results samples="5781" min_fps="52.770115" av_fps="62.278591" min_fps_ms="18.950119" av_fps_ms="16.056883" />
</track>
</benchmark>

It's with all settings maxed out. Basically it's still the same I guess.
Good news so far I didn't get red or blue spots while in 2D mode.
Let's keep my fingers crossed!

 

[Glazierman]

hard drives not recognized by windows 7 ??

Well I'm having trouble.That's why I haven't posted in here figured it was not proper to since was not to do with cards so I posted else where and waiting for some help. Soon as I can figure out what's wrong I will and the second card shows up today!! Thanks for asking.

 

[Black Panther]

Glazierman: I'll keep posting in your thread, (and well if p'haps I can help then do send me a pm and I'll try to help out the best I can).

___________________________________

Well I can think all of us 5970 owners can celebrate now.
I played DiRT2 for a whole hour, then quit and browsed the net, and I had no 2D issues at all. This is for the first time that I installed the 5970. Thankfully stuff appears to be back to what would be expected to be 'normal'..... finally!

 

[t_ski]

There is a post over a [H]ardforums looking for people that are still having GSOD issues after installing the 10.2's. Anyone who is having trouble with the GSOD issue should go over there and put their two cents in, and ATI will work with you on the problem.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1496547

Although my issue is not the same as everyone else's, I threw my hat into the ring to see if ATI will contact me on the cold-bug issue.

 

[Black Panther]

What's your issue t_ski?

So far my sole issues of not being able to run WEI and getting artifacts after quitting a game got solved. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed however.

It sounds too good to be true, having all my problems solved all of a sudden.... with just a driver update?

 

[Black Panther]

There is a post over a [H]ardforums looking for people that are still having GSOD issues after installing the 10.2's. Anyone who is having trouble with the GSOD issue should go over there and put their two cents in, and ATI will work with you on the problem.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1496547

Although my issue is not the same as everyone else's, I threw my hat into the ring to see if ATI will contact me on the cold-bug issue.

What do you mean by the 'cold-bug' issue t_ski?

 

[nt300]

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!

Don't think there a problem with your card. Sounds like something is wrong with your ati drivers. The best thing to do is to do a complete format then reinstal OS and drivers when upgrading your vid card from one generation to another generation or from Nvidia to ATI or ATI to Nvidia. This is why Dual-Boot OS is the best choice and have game folder on a backupdrive and just use that backup drive over and over again without the need to reinstall games again. Idealy have a super fast backup drive like a Raid0 or something for performance.

But I like your two HD 5870's in Crossfire,

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!!!

What you really want to do is start out with the first card then add the other card later. But make sure you reinstall the CCC drivers when you do so or you will get a drop in performance.

 

[t_ski]

What's your issue t_ski?

What do you mean by the 'cold-bug' issue t_ski?

My issue is the cold-bug. If the cores idle below 28C I start to get measles like you, or lockups and gray stripes & GSOD's. I have to keep the cores loaded or leave the fans off on the radiator to keep them warm enough. My issues are similar to what other people see, but from a different reason. Perhaps it is related in a way, and maybe they can help me as well.

 

[Black Panther]

Have you tried 10.2?
I think I can safely say that it solved all my GSOD's and 'measles' now...

Obviously I'm running stock cooler and my card idles at 44 degrees. I can't check if I'd have your same problem were my card to idle at 28 degrees.

 

[Black Panther]

I'll be testing out Crysis soon.

I had got the diskette and case back from my brother a week ago, but the manual containing CD key wasn't there. We couldn't find it so I assumed it was lost. Then I realized I had written it on a piece of paper and put it in the cd case next to the diskette, and it had been there all along...

Edit: Just tried the game out. Everything on Very High, at my max res of 1680x1050 and lol at 4xAA it's between 40 - 55 fps, more hovering around the low 40's than the 50's!
Putting it at 8xAA kills the game, goes down to like 10fps!

One issue I'm having is this type of flickering but the game's still unpatched so I don't know if it's a game issue or a driver issue. I'm downloading the 1.2 patch and 1.2.1 hotfix for Crysis now...


Edit again: The patches fixed the flicker problem and the game runs beautifully. I've never seen Crysis so beautiful on the 8800GT....
I also noticed that I get the same fps whether I remove all AA or run at 4xAA...

 

[Lionheart]

8800GT? Dont you mean HD5970!

 

[t_ski]

Have you tried 10.2?
I think I can safely say that it solved all my GSOD's and 'measles' now...

Obviously I'm running stock cooler and my card idles at 44 degrees. I can't check if I'd have your same problem were my card to idle at 28 degrees.

Yes, I have tried the new drivers and they still do it. This is indeed a hardware problem, as it has even happened when I was sitting in the BIOS.

 

[Black Panther]

8800GT? Dont you mean HD5970!

Meh lol my grammar, what I meant was that I had never seen Crysis so beautiful before when I had the 8800GT...

T_ski I know this sounds like beyond the point, but would you consider removing the WC from the card and run it on stock cooler?

 

[t_ski]

If I don't get this sorted out by the time things warm up outside, I will have to.

 

[Black Panther]

Do HIS allow removal of the stock cooler and installing wc block for warranty purposes?
If yes, it would be easier to rma...

 

[t_ski]

I don't know for sure, but I can put it back on neatly if needed