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5970 grief

ok.. edited lol

Im also thinking of using thermoelectric cooling (peltier) plates.. where you put a current through one side goes icy cold, while the other side gets real hot though.. you can put those between the gpus / memchips and the heatsink.. but that again requires a certain level of tinkering with hardware.
 
forest4 said:
Did you set up a tent outside the store? hehe

But I think the reason why the 5970 is so rare now might be because of all the problems with it. But it is just a theory off the top of my head. I have yet to try out my 5870 because I need to buy a gigantic PC case to house it in, so I have no opinions of my XFX 5870 yet.
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Meh, I'd just set it up in a mobo tray till it got here hehe
 
ntemples1 said:
if you look a few posts up you'll see I explained it, I just created a new overclock profile and manually set the clocks and deleted the old profiles, and now everything is fine.
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Have you flashed your card with the updated bios for manual fan control, im thinking of doing mine but iv never flashed a card before and i dont wanna brick the card lol.

i have AVP and stalker arriving tomorrow to test some dx 11

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Gigabyte X58 UD5
i7 920 3.4ghz
Noctua NH-U12PSE
6GB Patriot Viper 1600mhz
XFX HD5970 BE
750w Be quiet dark power pro
Silverstone Raven RV01
17th Feb 2010 00:53
 
ProT4GoNisT said:
Have you flashed your card with the updated bios for manual fan control, im thinking of doing mine but iv never flashed a card before and i dont wanna brick the card lol.

i have AVP and stalker arriving tomorrow to test some dx 11

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Gigabyte X58 UD5
i7 920 3.4ghz
Noctua NH-U12PSE
6GB Patriot Viper 1600mhz
XFX HD5970 BE
750w Be quiet dark power pro
Silverstone Raven RV01
17th Feb 2010 00:53
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No I haven't flashed it, I am a little nervous about doing that, it seems to be working fine so I am just going to leave it! Yeah I am getting AVP too so I am looking forward to the DX 11, although I have stalker and it looks so dated even with dx 11!!!
 
Reviews havent been too kind to AVP gamespot 5.5 to 6 and 7s lol but there for console anyway i tested both with the demo and the PC kicked the xboxs butt when it came to graphics lol console looks terrible, do you have your card at stock clocks or have you overclocked it

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Gigabyte X58 UD5
i7 920 3.4ghz
Noctua NH-U12PSE
6GB Patriot Viper 1600mhz
XFX HD5970 BE
750w Be quiet dark power pro
Silverstone Raven RV01
 
what kinda case you using my silverstone RV01 sucks at cooling getting a antec or something next week to replace this

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Gigabyte X58 UD5
i7 920 3.4ghz
Noctua NH-U12PSE
6GB Patriot Viper 1600mhz
XFX HD5970 BE
750w Be quiet dark power pro
Silverstone Raven RV01
 
ProT4GoNisT said:
what kinda case you using my silverstone RV01 sucks at cooling getting a antec or something next week to replace this

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Gigabyte X58 UD5
i7 920 3.4ghz
Noctua NH-U12PSE
6GB Patriot Viper 1600mhz
XFX HD5970 BE
750w Be quiet dark power pro
Silverstone Raven RV01
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I have got a Coolermaster stacker 832, it's huges and is really good at keeping things cooled!
 
ntemples1 said:
I have got a Coolermaster stacker 832, it's huges and is really good at keeping things cooled!
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i was going to get the Haf 932 but theres no dust filters on the case at all and the interior is silver and i prefer black so you cant see the cables inside too much

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Gigabyte X58 UD5
i7 920 3.4ghz
Noctua NH-U12PSE
6GB Patriot Viper 1600mhz
XFX HD5970 BE
750w Be quiet dark power pro
Silverstone Raven RV01
 
ProT4GoNisT said:
i was going to get the Haf 932 but theres no dust filters on the case at all and the interior is silver and i prefer black so you cant see the cables inside too much

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Gigabyte X58 UD5
i7 920 3.4ghz
Noctua NH-U12PSE
6GB Patriot Viper 1600mhz
XFX HD5970 BE
750w Be quiet dark power pro
Silverstone Raven RV01
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There's no point trying to get around the sig rules by adding your computer spec to the end of all your posts. :rolleyes:
 
Just thought I'd update the thread (and try and steer it back on topic!) - since installing 10.2 drivers I haven't had any desktop "driver has stopped responding" errors, even running the default 157/300 clocks.

One thing I have noticed which seems quite peculiar is that on the desktop now it seems as if the 2nd core is switched off completely until I start using it? CCC shows it as 0/0 on core/memory until I do something (e.g. Furmark in a window) at which point it springs into life. Pretty cool if that's a power saving thing.
 
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Thanks man :)

Early days yet so it could still have problems but it hasn't done the "driver has stopped responding" thing since going to 10.2.
 
i finally get to test some dx 11 out tomorrow with stalker and AVP so busy day tomorrow gotta take all my system apart to switch cases also, as far as the 2d thing goes its hit and miss realy some people get and some dont hope everything works out for you anyway its a great card when it works lol
 
Durzel said:
Just thought I'd update the thread (and try and steer it back on topic!) - since installing 10.2 drivers I haven't had any desktop "driver has stopped responding" errors, even running the default 157/300 clocks.
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I still get this. :( What can i do about it?
 
Muynck said:
I still get this. :( What can i do about it?
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have you tried raising your 2d clocks, just updated the bios on my card as well for manual fan control first time flashing a card everything went ok. Also about raising the 2d clocks you shouldnt realy haft to do this though not with a new card anyway if you've tryed all the drivers and still getting the problem i would try and RMA the card for a component this expensive you shouldn't have problems with it and haft to mess around with it lol
 
Durzel said:
One thing I have noticed which seems quite peculiar is that on the desktop now it seems as if the 2nd core is switched off completely until I start using it? CCC shows it as 0/0 on core/memory until I do something (e.g. Furmark in a window) at which point it springs into life. Pretty cool if that's a power saving thing.
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Now that is how you powersave. Well done, ATI.
 
been messing around with my card flashed the bios installed overvolt been messing around trying some overclocking adding 20mhz at a time on the gpu clock adding just 20mhz gave me an extra 2fps in heaven might clock it up to 800 see how it goes
 
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