[SOLVED] HD 5870 Never stepping beyond the 600/900Mhz frquencies
Hello all,
It's been a month now that I'm looking for a solution. I have a Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X card, which is supposed to run @ 875/1250Mhz under full load. The problem is that even the heaviest game engines never trigger that powerplay mode, best I get is the GPU to run @ 600/900Mhz. I even tried to RMA the card but it returned with a clean bill of health. I'm turning to you guys for help.
Here's my system spec:
CPU: Intel i7 980X @ stock freq
Motherboard: Asus Rampage II Extreme
Memory: Corsair 6x2Gbyte (Choice based on the QVL provided by asus for such configuration)
PSU: Chieftec 560W - Sli/Crossfire ready (Getting a brand new modular Enermax 850 this week)
OS: Genuine Win7 Ultimate x64 fully updated
Driver: Catalyst 10.4 (I've tried 10.3/2/1 with same results)
I already submited my bios to Sapphire and they reported no apparent issues with it, though I'm attaching it here (fresh dump with GPU-Z 0.4.2, for some reason v. 0.4.3 refused to save the bios).
There must be something wrong with my windows installation, and this thursday I'm getting a new Raptor-X hard drive together with the Enermax 850W, and will attempt a clean install, but I've reinstalled before, with no results.
There must be something in my system that prevents powerplay to switch to the correct frequencies, but I'm at a loss of ideas.
I have an APC UPS connected to this machine via USB which reports battery charge, this isn't tricking the system into thinking it's running in a laptop environment, is it? Under power options the system is set to run at High Performance, with no power saving applied in any scenario to the PCI-E rails.
I hope some of you can provide some fresh ideas on how to tackle this issue. If any of you as ever seen or heard of something like this I'd love to hear from you.
Full resolution screenshot of furmark running @ full settings with CPU-Z sensors in view:
Hello all,
It's been a month now that I'm looking for a solution. I have a Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X card, which is supposed to run @ 875/1250Mhz under full load. The problem is that even the heaviest game engines never trigger that powerplay mode, best I get is the GPU to run @ 600/900Mhz. I even tried to RMA the card but it returned with a clean bill of health. I'm turning to you guys for help.
Here's my system spec:
CPU: Intel i7 980X @ stock freq
Motherboard: Asus Rampage II Extreme
Memory: Corsair 6x2Gbyte (Choice based on the QVL provided by asus for such configuration)
PSU: Chieftec 560W - Sli/Crossfire ready (Getting a brand new modular Enermax 850 this week)
OS: Genuine Win7 Ultimate x64 fully updated
Driver: Catalyst 10.4 (I've tried 10.3/2/1 with same results)
I already submited my bios to Sapphire and they reported no apparent issues with it, though I'm attaching it here (fresh dump with GPU-Z 0.4.2, for some reason v. 0.4.3 refused to save the bios).
There must be something wrong with my windows installation, and this thursday I'm getting a new Raptor-X hard drive together with the Enermax 850W, and will attempt a clean install, but I've reinstalled before, with no results.
There must be something in my system that prevents powerplay to switch to the correct frequencies, but I'm at a loss of ideas.
I have an APC UPS connected to this machine via USB which reports battery charge, this isn't tricking the system into thinking it's running in a laptop environment, is it? Under power options the system is set to run at High Performance, with no power saving applied in any scenario to the PCI-E rails.
I hope some of you can provide some fresh ideas on how to tackle this issue. If any of you as ever seen or heard of something like this I'd love to hear from you.
Full resolution screenshot of furmark running @ full settings with CPU-Z sensors in view:
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