The HD 5970 Clubhouse

[Black Panther]

Mah Jongg and Spider Solitaire :shadedshu

You're kidding...


I get lagging after more than 2hrs gaming Dirt2.

I'm unsure if it's a problem with the game... or with the cpu overclock.
Thing is that I can play Crysis, Cryostasis, Sims3, Resident Evil, Spore, Fallout3, Metro, Dragon Age, Prototype... with no issue at all

 

[Sanhime]

Dirt2, Dirt and Grid crashes on me. Either at start up or at some point early in the games. The only thing these games have in common so far is they are all Codemasters games I think.

I wonder if it is a PSU issues, which would be pretty surprising considering Corsair is a great brand. Can PSU cause game crashes and BSOD? I know if you don't have enough power or if the PSU is really stressed, the usual symptom is computer just shutting down.

 

[Black Panther]

I was thinking it was the cpu & ram overclock in my case. Perhaps a case of low voltages, or NB overheating (NB heatsink hurts a bit touching with the back of my hand)... but then it used to be so even when I had the E4300 @ 3Ghz (instead of E8400 @ 4Ghz) and the 8800GT (instead of the 5970) but then I never had any problem with games.
But way back then I certainly didn't try Dirt2 and the rest of my games work fine as before.

 

[t_ski]

You're kidding...


I get lagging after more than 2hrs gaming Dirt2.

I'm unsure if it's a problem with the game... or with the cpu overclock.
Thing is that I can play Crysis, Cryostasis, Sims3, Resident Evil, Spore, Fallout3, Metro, Dragon Age, Prototype... with no issue at all

I actually have Dirt2, Arkham Asylum, Wolfenstein, Lego batman and NFS: Shift, but don't game on this much. Not much time with work, kids in baseball 3-4 nights a week and keeping up the house (+ finishing the basement one Sunday at a time).

 

[Lionheart]

So iz anyone gonna grab the Sapphire HD5970 4GB

 

[mdsx1950]

So iz anyone gonna grab the Sapphire HD5970 4GB

Only if its the Toxic card

On the other hand games i played recently and games installed are ;
Bad Company 2 (runs perfect)
Splinter Cell Conviction (runs like shit on my pc... couldn't even get 30fps stable)
Just Cause 2 (runs perfect)
DiRT 2 (runs perfect)
Assassins Creed II (runs perfect)
GTA Episodes from Liberty City (runs well)
Street Fighter IV (runs perfect)
AVP (runs perfect)

 

[Lionheart]

Only if its the Toxic card

On the other hand games i played recently and games installed are ;
Bad Company 2 (runs perfect)
Splinter Cell Conviction (runs like shit on my pc... couldn't even get 30fps stable)
Just Cause 2 (runs perfect)
DiRT 2 (runs perfect)
Assassins Creed II (runs perfect)
GTA Episodes from Liberty City (runs well)
Street Fighter IV (runs perfect)
AVP (runs perfect)

Wats wrong with splinter cell

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

lol whats not wrong with splinter cell this time around ..... 3hr long main single player game and its buggy lol altho it did run fine on his rig using a 8800gts 640mb so ive no idea it ran badly for me as well. thus why he has my copy of it

 

[Lionheart]

lol whats not wrong with splinter cell this time around ..... 3hr long main single player game and its buggy lol altho it did run fine on his rig using a 8800gts 640mb so ive no idea it ran badly for me as well. thus why he has my copy of it

Damn, and I was gonna grab that game, fuk that then,

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

yea it was strange my 5850 crossfire it was a mess to play tossed it on my buddies rig and it ran fine on ancient hardware... athlon X2 4400+ overclocked to 2.8 and the 8800gtx 640mb heavily overclock and it ran better at the same settings...... eitherway total time for me to beat the single player aspect was a little over 3hrs.. and since im not a member here ill slink away slowly back into the shadows where all you can see is my googly eyes

 

[mdsx1950]

Wats wrong with splinter cell

It has no proper CFX support. So out out of all 4 GPUs in my 5970s, only one worked. And Splinter cell was badly optimized for ATi so it sucked. My friends 9800GT ran it better :/ Even at very low settings at 800x600 res (the game looked fucking ugly, looked like a PS1 game) still just bordering on 30fps. Even on max it was just at the same level. :shadedshu Afterwards they released a patch, but people said they get worse performance after they put the patch so i played the game on like 25-30 fps. But still the story and gameplay are awesome.

 

[Hockster]

Splinter Cell ran extremely well for me. Other than the Eyefinity patch not working worth a damn. But max settings at 1920X1200 it averaged 55-60FPS.

 

[Sanhime]

I just ran my own Kill A Watt power test on my system and WOW these 5970 are freakn efficient. My system idles around 215 to 250. I played about an hour of BFBC2. My system peaked around 625, I was averaging a range of 500 to 600 watts (loads on all 4 GPUs range 50% to 75%)throughout playing the game. Now this is with 2 5970s CFX (default clocks), 3 3.5" HDS, 2 2.5" HDs; BD burner in a 4 case fans, and 2 fans on CPU. Well, you can see the details on my systems on the left. I can probably save a bit more wattage if I had HX series PSU.

Its funny that on the Corsair website, when you use their configuration, they tell you to use a HX1000.

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

So anyone try Catalyst 10.5 with their 5970 yet?

 

[t_ski]

Not yet. A lot of people in the 10.5 discussion thread were complaining about clocks being messed up. I figured I'd wait.

 

[Sanhime]

we need more guinea pigs. get to it, you cannon fodders!

 

[TRIPTEX_CAN]

Not yet. A lot of people in the 10.5 discussion thread were complaining about clocks being messed up. I figured I'd wait.

Yeah that's what I was reading as well but some say they fixed their idle clocks with a few different tricks.

I'll guess I'll try them out tonight and let anyone who's still interested know how they work.

I'll most likely test; BFBC2, Dirt2, Vantage, and Heaven 2.0.

 

[hv43082]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

My XFX 5970 is defective. BC2 starts to crash so often (a lot more than usual) so I ran furmark at stock speed. My comp would crash in like 2 minutes and the GPU fan blowing at 100% until I hard reset it. 2D mode is unaffected. I hope XFX have reserve to exchange for this.

 

[mdsx1950]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

My XFX 5970 is defective. BC2 starts to crash so often (a lot more than usual) so I ran furmark at stock speed. My comp would crash in like 2 minutes and the GPU fan blowing at 100% until I hard reset it. 2D mode is unaffected. I hope XFX have reserve to exchange for this.

How do you know that its defective? Does it crash in all games? Try changing drivers. And if you have overclocked your CPU or GPU, make them back to stock.

 

[hv43082]

I tried the latest driver after using driver sweeper. GPU is at stock voltage/speed. Ran furmark stability test, temp rose to 90+ Celcius and then screen goes black, fan spins up to 100% and require hard reset to get back to windows.

 

[Black Panther]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

My XFX 5970 is defective. BC2 starts to crash so often (a lot more than usual) so I ran furmark at stock speed. My comp would crash in like 2 minutes and the GPU fan blowing at 100% until I hard reset it. 2D mode is unaffected. I hope XFX have reserve to exchange for this.

Seems like something is overheating?
To exclude other possibilities, how is your case cooling? Could you try running the benchmark with the side panel off and a house fan blowing inside the pc?
Perhaps the 5970 is just fine and it's the air temperature inside your case which is becoming too warm?
Wish you good luck.


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Sooo, who has tried the 10.5 cats?
I'm feeling reluctant.
But FullInfusion installed them and swears by them...

 

[hv43082]

I have 2 120 mm blowing on the GPU. One directly in front and one on the side. No overheating issue up until now. Took your advice Panther and take off the front panel of my Lian Li x500 and ran furmak, GPU temp hovers around 90C and it did not crashed. Install Crysis Warhead and ran at max rez+detail, temp max out at 85C, no crash. BFBC2 max details, temp reach around 90C, also no overheat. Strange thing is before all of this, the card was overvolt and OC'ed and it ran fine. All of a sudden, it starts overheating even at stock voltage and speed even though everything else (case, fan, AC room).

 

[mdsx1950]

I have 2 120 mm blowing on the GPU. One directly in front and one on the side. No overheating issue up until now. Took your advice Panther and take off the front panel of my Lian Li x500 and ran furmak, GPU temp hovers around 90C and it did not crashed. Install Crysis Warhead and ran at max rez+detail, temp max out at 85C, no crash. BFBC2 max details, temp reach around 90C, also no overheat. Strange thing is before all of this, the card was overvolt and OC'ed and it ran fine. All of a sudden, it starts overheating even at stock voltage and speed even though everything else (case, fan, AC room).

There must be too much dust. Clean the fans and the inside of your rig at least monthly as dust adds up and could end up damaging any component in your rig due to overheating.

 

[Lionheart]

There must be too much dust. Clean the fans and the inside of your rig at least monthly as dust adds up and could end up damaging any component in your rig due to overheating.

Yo bro, do you get much microstuttering with your Xfire setup? Would you recommend a Qaudfire setup?

 

[Black Panther]

I have 2 120 mm blowing on the GPU. One directly in front and one on the side. No overheating issue up until now. Took your advice Panther and take off the front panel of my Lian Li x500 and ran furmak, GPU temp hovers around 90C and it did not crashed. Install Crysis Warhead and ran at max rez+detail, temp max out at 85C, no crash. BFBC2 max details, temp reach around 90C, also no overheat. Strange thing is before all of this, the card was overvolt and OC'ed and it ran fine. All of a sudden, it starts overheating even at stock voltage and speed even though everything else (case, fan, AC room).

So apparently it is a heat issue.

Apart from taking care of dust, check if perhaps you need more exhaust fans in the case. You said you have two 120mm blowing on the GPU -- do you have any other fans blowing out of the case apart from that of the PSU?