Recent content by justinjk

Installed Catalyst 13.1, powered off and switched to Bank #2 (overclocked bank). Booted up and opened the AMD Vision Engine Control Center. Clicked the AMD Overdrive section and sure enough, it's checked as enabled and set to the stock speed of 950MHz Core and 1450MHz Effective Memory Clock. I...

I didn't flash the bios. It came with overclocked bios on a 2nd bios bank and there is a switch on the card to allow me to go between stock speed and overclocked. As I've read, the overclocked bios on the card (Bank #2) is in fact only a very light overclock, easily less than what the card can...

Just filled that in --- it's 750W, 80Plus Bronze --- I've heard this is roughly JUST about enough, if not slighly less than enough power to run two 7970's crossfire, so PSU probably isn't a problem (just to clarify: I'm only using 1 single 7970). It could have been a fluke that I got the...

I take it reflashing the bios will only flash the one bank that I've booted into? If so, would it be easy to reflash it if I end up with a bad flash? I booted DOS from a disc about 6 years ago, might still have the disc laying around. I was under the impression that voltage tweaking wasn't...

Edit: Solved Ordered the Sapphire 7970 Dual-X in late October 2012 and got it early November. This is the first dedicated graphic card I've bought/installed, and it seemed to work fine. One day I decided to try bios bank #2 which is supposed to be the lightly overclocked bios: 1000MHz Core...