The HD 5970 Clubhouse

[douglatins]

Anyone upset with the newest 5970 from sapphire? Not like ares since it will cost 2 normal one, but the newest from sapph will have 4gigs and a revised cooling, i want that one bwaaaa... now getting back to my post, fan% is greyed out again
Though i like temps with 45%, around 40*45C

 

[fullinfusion]

Just ran this Vantage Mark with the 10.3 beta Cat's... works great and no Meseals so far....I messed with some gpu voltage and clock settings. Not bad IMO?

Any body have a safe core voltage to recommend sense this is my 1st time clocking a gpu with user friendly core voltage controll?

 

[fullinfusion]

Anyone upset with the newest 5970 from sapphire? Not like ares since it will cost 2 normal one, but the newest from sapph will have 4gigs and a revised cooling, i want that one bwaaaa... now getting back to my post, fan% is greyed out again
Though i like temps with 45%, around 40*45C

Not me, I love this gpu, It just need's better drivers to make this thing Scream!!!!

 

[douglatins]

I f_cking hate this "card", ATI you will never get my money again, bring on the GTX400 so i can sell this piece of shit
I already miss my 295, though I like place this crap 2 hours ago, i wont bother trading back until i have more time to redo the drivers annoyance
I cant begin to tell how much crap i've got since my first post, drivers stopped working, those red squares, green screens (WTF!?), and had to cold reboot 3-4 times. Srsly, ATI. WTF

 

[fullinfusion]

I fucking hate this "card", ATI you will never get my money again, bring on the GTX400 so i can sell this piece of shit
I already miss my 295, though I like place this crap 2 hours ago, i wont bother trading back until i have more time to redo the drivers annoyance
I cant begin to tell how much crap i've got since my first post, drivers stopped working, those red squares, green screens (WTF!?), and had to cold reboot 3-4 times. Srsly, ATI. WTF

Blah bLAH!!!! you miss your Green team gpu? whhha!!! just have some faith on ATI and the writing of there drivers..... Give it time and It'll be better than the 400 shitseries Green shit gpu's.... look at this!!!! no Piss X involved, and thats the way it should be!

 

[douglatins]

I might flash the card with saph bios, maybe

 

[t_ski]

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

Yes, that's correct. The power draw from one card in one slot was a little high for ATI to be comfortable with. I bought the 5970 because I could not buy two 5870's at the time. If I'm lucky, I might pick up another 5970 soon.

 

[douglatins]

Ok so i played a DX11 game today and the card went to 93% usage and got nice steady frames. Though i am still upset with some things

 

[t_ski]

Anybody know how much CPU is needed to drive two cards? When I had my dual 38/4870x2's, you had to have a high OC on the CPU in order to have enough muscle to push the cards. I'm going to assume it's the same here, but how much is enough?

 

[Glazierman]

Oh,so now you tell me !! LOL

 

[t_ski]

You should be good if you OC the CPU, but my question is how much?

 

[Black Panther]

Relax guys.

I know Glazier's going to run 2 cards, but well I run my single one using an E8400 processor (@ 4Ghz)... Which is a piece of crap compared to an i7 or i5 even at stock.

Benchmarking scores do show that my card is being bottlenecked (I get slightly over 20,000 3dmark06 whereas who has an i7 gets ~26,000 or ~29,000 or even more), but I can't complain because my in-game performance is perfect.

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[rant] it's still not perfect "outta-game" though. Yesterday I played Dirt2 for just 30 minutes, so far so fine.... Then I ran Defraggler.

After Defraggler finished (like 15 minutes later), I got the measels, grey screen, driver stopped responding.[/rant]


Well at least it's been more than a week since my drivers played up in 2D mode. With the 10.1 drivers it used to occur on a daily basis, precisely a couple of minutes after exiting out of any game be it Sims3, Fallout3, Crysis or Dirt2. I couldn't even run Vista WEI with the 10.1 driver at all.

I'm hesitating on whether to install the 10.3 beta or wait a bit until they're official.

 

[douglatins]

Hey i was running a furmark bench at 850Mhz in 1.1V, how long do i have to expect to see if the volts are to few, since the dude needed 1,25v to get there

 

[t_ski]

I anyone is looking for a (or another) 5970:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=A271-5972

They are showing these as in stock.

 

[Black Panther]

Hey i was running a furmark bench at 850Mhz in 1.1V, how long do i have to expect to see if the volts are to few, since the dude needed 1,25v to get there

I'd leave it for 30 minutes or so.
I don't know if that's how it should be done, but that's how I always oc'd my cards.
After seeing them stable in furmark for 30 mins, I'd leave the card overclocked and check out all my games. If everything works fine in-game (I tend to game at 4 or 5 hours stretches ) then it'd surely be ok.

 

[t_ski]

For the 5970's, the vregs start to scale back around 120 (or was it 130) C, so run it until the temps level out and see how hot it gets. If you have no artifacts and the temps are still good, push it harder

 

[fullinfusion]

For the 5970's, the vregs start to scale back around 120 (or was it 130) C, so run it until the temps level out and see how hot it gets. If you have no artifacts and the temps are still good, push it harder

thats a tad on the high side isn't it T?

Oh and thanks for the tiger direct link, I see there outta stock now......Buuut I have a twin sister waiting for me to pick up from my local dealer.

 

[fullinfusion]

Anybody know how much CPU is needed to drive two cards? When I had my dual 38/4870x2's, you had to have a high OC on the CPU in order to have enough muscle to push the cards. I'm going to assume it's the same here, but how much is enough?

I think aussi man, um oh yeah Mussels can tell ya that. I cant remember what he was saying in a different thread a while back about a cpu clock that moreless makes the gpu screem,,,but im sure he was saying it was in the 4.2GHz range if im not mistaken

 

[Black Panther]

but im sure he was saying it was in the 4.2GHz range if im not mistaken

I understand he was meaning an i7 at 4.2Ghz, not a core 2 duo at 4.2Ghz?

This evening I'll install the 10.3 beta.

I can't understand what's happening at all now... Ever since I installed the 10.2 I only had one GSOD. Then yesterday I left the farmville bot manager running alone as I had been doing every day, and I had like EIGHT GSOD's within less than 30 minutes?!?

It makes no sense - why should it start GSOD'ing now... why not yesterday or the day before or the week before

 

[mdsx1950]

Cant believe i didn't come across this clubhouse. Count me in. I got 2 XFX 5970s

 

[Tatty_Two]

Anybody know how much CPU is needed to drive two cards? When I had my dual 38/4870x2's, you had to have a high OC on the CPU in order to have enough muscle to push the cards. I'm going to assume it's the same here, but how much is enough?

From what I have read, at the higher resolutions such as yours where there is less reliance on the CPU.... 2 cards shouldnt be bottlenecked with a quad running at 3.8gig plus for normal gaming.

 

[fullinfusion]

I understand he was meaning an i7 at 4.2Ghz, not a core 2 duo at 4.2Ghz?

This evening I'll install the 10.3 beta.

I can't understand what's happening at all now... Ever since I installed the 10.2 I only had one GSOD. Then yesterday I left the farmville bot manager running alone as I had been doing every day, and I had like EIGHT GSOD's within less than 30 minutes?!?

It makes no sense - why should it start GSOD'ing now... why not yesterday or the day before or the week before

Thats the way these gpu's work under the 10.2 cat, 10,3 Preview is the cats azz mate trust me.

I haven't had the Measles or any random crash PERIOD at any cpu-gpu clock with these drivers....

Hey Green team is about to release there new gPU"S and sense AMD (ATI) have a killer 5970 gpu on the market and must say pricey ATM, And just for the fact,,,, The N_cRaPiA keeps getting delayed.... WhY? You WATCH!

ATI'S drivers, is .... or shall I say, A driver that's going to Unleash the power of these card's.....And It's going to happen Just after the release of the Green Team's release it's new gpu'z! You watch and bet my word's It's TRUE!!!!! Ati Is going to dominate this series of DX11 gpu'zzzz

 

[fullinfusion]

Cant believe i didn't come across this clubhouse. Count me in. I got 2 XFX 5970s

Welcome!!! More the Merry-er hehehe

 

[Black Panther]

Cant believe i didn't come across this clubhouse. Count me in. I got 2 XFX 5970s

Welcome!

So far it's you and Glazierman who got two of these babies!

 

[Lionheart]

Cant believe i didn't come across this clubhouse. Count me in. I got 2 XFX 5970s

You only have 2 HD5970's, not enough man, get 4 more then you should be able to max out FINAL DOOM jks!

Nice setup bru!