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I don't know for sure, but I can put it back on neatly if needed ;)

I wouldn't try that if I were you - because they'd test it and say it's running fine (obviously at an idle temp of over 40 degrees...) How would you explain that the problem occurs only if the idle temps of your card is less than 30 degrees then? (Unless you live in an igloo?) ;)
 

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OK, I've been pulling what's left of my hair out trying to load friggen windows 7 ultimate 64 and finally have arrived at the os disk is corrupt so now I wait with two 5970 blacks on a replacement disk which I had to pay 30.00 more dollars for can you believe that !!
 
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:( Tough luck Glazierman!

I remember when I first built my desktop with the E4300 that time, I went to buy XP from a local store and it was nearly 7PM and they were closing. I took my purchase and they closed the shop. When I arrived home, I noticed that the package was opened and there even was no disk inside! I couldn't sleep the entire night, fearing that they wouldn't believe my story the following day...

They did give me a proper XP the following morning, apologizing that in their hurry to close shop they must have taken an empty package which one of the techs had used to install XP on another machine!
 
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Meh lol my grammar, what I meant was that I had never seen Crysis so beautiful before when I had the 8800GT... :laugh:

T_ski I know this sounds like beyond the point, but would you consider removing the WC from the card and run it on stock cooler?

OOOHHHH I see:rolleyes: my bad!:p
 
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3DMark06

OOOHHHH I see:rolleyes: my bad!:p

Nope it's my grammar. I write good english normally but sometimes I construct sentences the wrong way!:laugh:

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Hey guys I need a little favour, can you run a 3dmark06 and post the SM2, SM3 and CPU scores separately? No need to post screenshots or anything...
It's just that I'm seeing my score to be kinda lowish, and I want to ensure it's my E8400 which is the culprit here.

Just post scores in this format, and if you got your system specs up (including cpu/gpu clocks) there's no need to post them:

SM2: 8557
SM3: 12180
CPU: 3685
Total: 20378
 

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Thanks Black panther for the link to this thread, I think it's going to help alot of ppl out.

Sign me up please :respect:

 
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well all is well using the 10.2 cats and upped the gpu core voltage and did a mark06 run, I must say.... I never EVER seen 300plus FPS in the Canyon flight test till now hehe

Any body have a clock I could safly try and a voltage to see if it works?

 

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If you have room in the temps for the vregs, you should be able to bump the voltage a little and push the clocks. I have my ram maxed out in Afterburner, and the core around 840 with more room to go.
 

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If you have room in the temps for the vregs, you should be able to bump the voltage a little and push the clocks. I have my ram maxed out in Afterburner, and the core around 840 with more room to go.
I just ran mark06 with this....I also set the PCI-E freq from 100 to 105MHz



 

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Use GPUz to read the vregs (VDDC) temps and push it until you get close to 120C. I think that ram should go higher.
 

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Use GPUz to read the vregs (VDDC) temps and push it until you get close to 120C. I think that ram should go higher.
Thanks... I'll give it a go later tonight.. What CCC drivers are the least buggy with the 5970?
I powered up the rig this morning and had the meezels all over the screen, a few seconds later the screen went black and than came back looking normal... Vista displayed a msg that the display driver failed and now has recovered? wth is this? is it just shitty drivers or what?
 
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Thanks... I'll give it a go later tonight.. What CCC drivers are the least buggy with the 5970?
I powered up the rig this morning and had the meezels all over the screen, a few seconds later the screen went black and than came back looking normal... Vista displayed a msg that the display driver failed and now has recovered? wth is this? is it just shitty drivers or what?

I used to get that a lot with the 10.1 drivers, lol I used to call them measles too.

Like this, I had posted about it earlier in page 2 or 3 of this thread:


It used to happen only while in windows, browsing, etc in 2D mode and normally only shortly after I quit a game.
Since I installed the 10.2 drivers it hasn't happened again... yet...
I'm pretty sure it's a driver issue.

Which drivers are you using currently?
 

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I used to get that a lot with the 10.1 drivers, lol I used to call them measles too.

Like this, I had posted about it earlier in page 2 or 3 of this thread:
http://img.techpowerup.org/100214/1delete.jpg

It used to happen only while in windows, browsing, etc in 2D mode and normally only shortly after I quit a game.
Since I installed the 10.2 drivers it hasn't happened again... yet...
I'm pretty sure it's a driver issue.

Which drivers are you using currently?
Thats why I called them measles too, I did read every post when I joined lol..
Im using 10.2 cats but going to try the 10.3ccc beta. Poo417 recommended I give them a try as he says it's by far the best driver to date, I guess he had his Sapphire 5970 the day they came out and it needed a firmware update but he's thinking it dont apply to my gpu.

Here are some shots I took last night installed into a mid size case.



 

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Thanks, for the info on the windows 7 download also where can you download the new beta drivers ?? I did not see these when I downloaded 10.2
 
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You got a really beautiful setup fullinfusion!
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also where can you download the new beta drivers ?? I did not see these when I downloaded 10.2

From here or here.

I will download them tomorrow or monday, when I am at home.

Thing is that I'm a tad unsure, this afternoon I was on my desktop rig and I thought I saw the measles but I didn't get a 'driver stopped responding' message.

Now tonight I apparently seen the same artifacting, only to immediately realise that I'm not at home and am using the laptop (with nvidia cards)... must be my eyes playing tricks now lol :eek:

Fudz article written by Sanjin Rados:

Coming in March


It will soon be six years since ATI rolled out its Catalyst Control Center, and we’re pretty used to seeing a new version every month. ATI Catalyst Software Suite features a few modules, accessed via user’s interface, and they enable for hassle-free control of graphics card’s settings. Naturally, frequent updates mean that the cards are being pushed to churn out the best possible performance, and each new driver introduces fixes and improvements.

The new Catalyst Software Suite 10.2 also brings a few novelties, among which the application profiles for ATI CrossFireX technology, DisplayPort audio for DP screens, improved performance in few games (we tested Dirt 2), support for ATI CrossFireX PowerPlay technology on HD 5970, HD 5800 and HD 5700 series’ cards, Eyefinity support, etc.

It’s worth noting that AMD almost finished the next version of Catalyst Software Suite version 10.3, which should be available next month, and it will bring and/or improve on 3D Stereoscopic, display bezel compensation (technology that addresses issues when using more monitors for gaming), per-display color adjustment, multiple ATI Eyefinity groups, improved display configuration switching, ATI mobility Radeon Premium graphics Catalyst 10.3 Software Suite.

Since Catalyst Software Suite 10.3 isn’t available to most users, we performed our Dirt 2 testing mostly with Catalyst Software Suite package 10.2. Still, for those who look to the future we included 10.3 tests as well and CCC 10.3 will, as you’ll see for yourself, further improve performance when it arrives next month.

AMD says the new CCC 10.2 will bring up to 8% better performance in Dirt2 for HD 5970, HD 5800 or HD 5700 series. This coincides with our testing, although 8% naturally wasn’t true for all the cards and at all resolutions.

Read more here
 
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that bezel compensation in 10.3 looks awsome on the preview I'm going to try it in the beta.
 

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Im using it and so far so good, Been up and marking for 2hrs with no problems :rockout:
 

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Something is bugging me, Why is it, that two 5870's are faster than a single 5970? Isn't the reason to buy a 5970 to have two 5870's built on a single card. Is it just the clocks are higher on the singleton :wtf:
 
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Ok so this is happening.
See? CCC is showing correct Fan%, but neither GPUz and MSI Aftbrn, they only show 30%.
Flashed with latest XFX bios
WTF?

EDIT: Now MSI is showing the % in the UI place but not in the right part

OH, i came to a conclusion that maybe is it because of the driver that is very new? 10.2?

 
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Easy question with a simple answer, Flash back to the original bios. ;)
 
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Easy question with a simple answer, Flash back to the original bios. ;)

I wont because i dont have it and because nothing was working before, the graph editor is working so thats the most important part
 
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Easy question with a simple answer, Flash back to the original bios. ;)

Definately a bad idea - the launch XFX BE BIOS has to be one of the worse BIOSes i've ever seen, really buggy.

I wont because i dont have it and because nothing was working before, the graph editor is working so thats the most important part

Good move - sadly even the fixed XFX BE bios is buggy in the fan controls department - it looks as if XFX have set a different max speed to the actual max speed - so saying 60% to the xfx bios sets it to 60% of the max the bios thinks it can go, when in fact it is only 40% of what the fan on the card can actually handle. At least everything else works well on the revised bios...
 
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