Recent content by abirdie4me

Impressive setup! Do you notice more fan noise with the fans at the bottom than when they were to the side? You might get even better cooling results (or at least quieter) if you switch from 120mm fans to 180mm like in the Silverstone Raven cases.

I second that...I've been using carpet sliders for years, cost about $15 at Lowe's or Home Depot. Moves much easier than wheels.

I've been running a very solid Q9650 at 4.05ghz for almost 2 years and have no need to upgrade. And yet, I just dropped about $700 on new Sandy Bridge components. I'm either very stupid or very bored. :laugh:

I have an i5 2500k. Unfortunately, I don't have a motherboard for it yet.

That sucks, hope you get it resolved soon. Do you have a system restore point that you can revert to, preferably before you installed the 6950s? Do you have access to another machine to put the cards in?

If $178 is in your budget, you should check out Raven RV02-E. Excellent cooling and very quiet.

I have the Raven RV02-E, which is internally identical to the FT02. The only differences in the 2 cases is the exterior styling and the fact the FT02 has sound dampening materials (that I've been told aren't very effective). The RV02-E is $178 on Amazon with free delivery, mine arrived in 3...

Qed, try disabling your 2nd monitor in CCC and watch your temperatures drop. I idle at 38 degrees with one monitor running, 56 with 2 monitors on. And that's with NOTHING running, including IE and flash.

Are you running 2 monitors?

I set my cards to the same speeds you listed (915/ 1375, I think) and ran 3DMark11. I can run every benchmark and game for hours with no artifacts at 950/1450 as long as I keep the fan cranked up. I guess I got lucky with 2 really good cards. I've created several profiles now for different...

I also have 2 sapphire 6950 in crossfire, however they are flashed to 6970 bios. My 3DMark11 graphics score is about 300 points higher than your at the same settings, I wonder if the extra voltage in the 6970 bios is helping me get a higher score with the same card setup?

At what point in Crysis did you have problems? I was having all kinds of issues at the final scene, then ran across some posts talking about DX10 memory leaks. I changed Crysis to run at DX9 and it ran perfectly!

My 2 Sapphire 6950s have been running happily with the 6970 bios for 4 days now, I have all the sliders in CCC maxed out at 950/1450 (the fan is at 50%). Benchmarks all look great and no issues after hours of Crysis, BFBC2, Metro2033, and Modern Warfare....I really like shooting stuff! How...

I don't see my voltage in either GPU-Z or Afterburner, anyone else have this issue? I don't remember if it was there before I flashed to the 6970 bios.

Well, I have 2 Sapphire 6950s and the original 6970 bios flash that W1zzard posted worked for me. My temps are quite a bit higher than when on stock 6950 settings, but I'm able to sustain a 920 clock and 1400 memory timings during benchmarks and several hours of gaming. I doubt you would get a...