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System Name | Awesomesauce 4.3 | Laptop (MSI GE72VR 6RF Apache Pro-023) |
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Processor | Intel Core i7-5820K 4.16GHz 1.28v/3GHz 1.05v uncore | Intel Core i7-6700HQ @ 3.1GHz |
Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-X99-UD5 WiFi LGA2011-v3| Stock |
Cooling | Corsair H100i v2 w/ 2x EK Vardar F4-120ER + various 120/140mm case fans | Stock |
Memory | G.Skill RJ-4 16GB DDR4-2666 CL15 quad channel | 12GB DDR4-2133 |
Video Card(s) | EVGA GTX 1080 Ti Hybrid SC2 11GB @ 2012/5151 boost | NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB +200/+500 + Intel 530 |
Storage | Samsung 840 EVO 500GB + Seagate 3TB 7200RPM + others | Kingston 256GB M.2 SATA + 1TB 7200RPM |
Display(s) | Acer G257HU 1440p 60Hz AH-IPS 4ms | 17.3" 1920*1080 60Hz wide angle TN notebook panel |
Case | Fractal Design Define XL R2 | MSI |
Audio Device(s) | Creative Sound Blaster Z | Realtek with quad stereo speakers and subwoofer |
Power Supply | Corsair HX850i Platinum | 19.5v 180w Delta brick |
Software | Windows 10 Pro x64 | Windows 10 Home x64 |
I received my new XFX DoubleD HD7950 two days ago, and promptly installed the Catalyst 12.6 Beta drivers. Played some TF2 with the card at stock which at first was flickering badly on the bottom inch of the screen, but once I set the resolution to native and such it went away. I then decided to try some benchmarking with FurMark and 3DMark06, and noticed I was getting terrible framerates in both (30 FPS in FurMark at stock, which was worse than my 6950 was!). So, after looking around in CCC and such, I decided to turn up the Power Control slider to +20%, and my framerate almost doubled in both FurMark and 3DMark06, which I though was pretty weird because the card shouldn't be throttling at 800/1250 despite having 100% GPU usage.
So them, I began playing around with the clocks, and have currently settled with 1000/1500 at 1.025v as this card gets pretty damn hot (like, 80c+ very fast in FurMark with the fans blaring). Since I have the card stabilized now to the best of my knowledge, I decided to start running Folding@Home on it again while watching the clocks. The problem I'm having is that the GPU usage is going all over the place and not staying at 100%. I opened MSI Afterburner and the usage suddenly went back to 100%, but when the computer has been idle for less than a few minutes the GPU usage starts going all over the place again until I move the mouse.
Anyone else experiencing this? I have a feeling there's a bug with PowerTune as well, as this card performs quite poorly in Tribes:Ascend as well. The GTX 460 1GB I had in here briefly before it shorted out and caught on fire ran Tribes perfectly maxed out at 60FPS without a single hiccup, but like my old 6950, the game is a stuttering POS and my framerate goes from 40-60. There's no reason I should have to turn up the slider to run the card optimally at stock, much less overclocked...
So them, I began playing around with the clocks, and have currently settled with 1000/1500 at 1.025v as this card gets pretty damn hot (like, 80c+ very fast in FurMark with the fans blaring). Since I have the card stabilized now to the best of my knowledge, I decided to start running Folding@Home on it again while watching the clocks. The problem I'm having is that the GPU usage is going all over the place and not staying at 100%. I opened MSI Afterburner and the usage suddenly went back to 100%, but when the computer has been idle for less than a few minutes the GPU usage starts going all over the place again until I move the mouse.
Anyone else experiencing this? I have a feeling there's a bug with PowerTune as well, as this card performs quite poorly in Tribes:Ascend as well. The GTX 460 1GB I had in here briefly before it shorted out and caught on fire ran Tribes perfectly maxed out at 60FPS without a single hiccup, but like my old 6950, the game is a stuttering POS and my framerate goes from 40-60. There's no reason I should have to turn up the slider to run the card optimally at stock, much less overclocked...