XFX ATI Radeon HD 5970 Black Edition 2048MB GDDR5

samuelc · 21 Mar 2010 at 00:00

gargh...

sorry sorry mate my bad. I had to add loads of funny marks on it due to colouring in MW2. Whats yours mate? I'll add you!

Any updates on your card btw buddy?

Sam

goldboy · 21 Mar 2010 at 02:49

nice samuelc. can't wait to see your full watercooled pc. pics please?

btw whered you get the 5970?

Danny_75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 08:51

Dont forget to post some clocks, Iam not inpressed with mine. It will not evan get close to the clocks they claim...... Mine does 900/1250 24/7 930/1295 for a bench but it will not play games for long at them speeds.

Durzel · 21 Mar 2010 at 08:59

You're not impressed with +175 on the core and +250 on the memory?

Danny_75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:03

Nope not at all. My old 5870 went to 1017/1311. They claimed the XFX BE should go 1000/1500 ??? This one doesnt evan get close.

goldboy · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:17

danny green,

is your 5970 watercooled?

apparently with water cooling it can reach 1000/1500

Danny_75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:20

Its not at the min (ordered) I understand that the max clocks can only be reached with water,but this pig cant evan get to 1300 for 2 seconds. You would think it would just for a min before it over heated.

Durzel · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:23

5870 is a single card, it's no wonder that clocks higher.

1000/1500 sounds totally unrealistic to me outside of water cooling and probably volt-modding too, and even then I'd be surprised if it was 24/7 stable. I think you're expectations are kinda ridiculous to be honest.

unp|dissy · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:24

Danny_75 said:
Dont forget to post some clocks, Iam not inpressed with mine. It will not evan get close to the clocks they claim...... Mine does 900/1250 24/7 930/1295 for a bench but it will not play games for long at them speeds.

Think yourself lucky. If i touch the clocks i get weird, weird goings on, downclock, overclock, whatever, even by 5mhz i get strange activity :\

unp|dissy · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:25

samuelc said:
gargh...

sorry sorry mate my bad. I had to add loads of funny marks on it due to colouring in MW2. Whats yours mate? I'll add you!

Any updates on your card btw buddy?

Sam

dissy818 mate

Nah, card still wont change its clocks without weird happenings :\

Danny_75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:30

unp|dissy said:
Think yourself lucky. If i touch the clocks i get weird, weird goings on, downclock, overclock, whatever, even by 5mhz i get strange activity :\

Mine was the same you need to make a profile and mod the CFG file.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/281111-15-overdrive-underclocks

I set mine to
<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="40000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="60000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="87500" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="125000" />
</Feature>

Durzel said:
5870 is a single card, it's no wonder that clocks higher.

1000/1500 sounds totally unrealistic to me outside of water cooling and probably volt-modding too, and even then I'd be surprised if it was 24/7 stable. I think you're expectations are kinda ridiculous to be honest.

Not looking for 1000/1500,Will be happy with 1000/1250.I have the sub0 cooler already running so should get close.

unp|dissy · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:32

Danny_75 said:
Mine was the same you need to make a profile and mod the CFG file.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/281111-15-overdrive-underclocks

I set mine to
<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="40000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="60000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="87500" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="125000" />
</Feature>

Interesting.

Thank you mate.

unp|dissy · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:44

Danny_75 said:
Mine was the same you need to make a profile and mod the CFG file.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/281111-15-overdrive-underclocks

I set mine to
<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="40000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="60000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="87500" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="125000" />
</Feature>

Not looking for 1000/1500,Will be happy with 1000/1250.I have the sub0 cooler already running so should get close.

I see,

That xml sets your 2d clocks (want_0) to:

400mhz core
1000mhz mem?

and your 3d clocks (want_2) to:

875 mhz core
1250 mhz mem?

Am i right? If so.. What's the want_1 values?

Danny_75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 09:50

Yep.
Set yours the same as mine or just set 775 and 1150 if you dont want to over volt.

unp|dissy · 21 Mar 2010 at 10:01

Danny_75 said:
Yep.
Set yours the same as mine or just set 775 and 1150 if you dont want to over volt.

Set it to:

<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="40000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="55000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="77500" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_0">
<Property name="Want_0" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="115000" />
</Feature>

Assuming because it's a dual gpu card, the second lot of xml refers to the second gpu:

<Feature name="CoreClockTarget_1">
<Property name="Want_0" value="40000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="55000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="77500" />
</Feature>
<Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_1">
<Property name="Want_0" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_1" value="100000" />
<Property name="Want_2" value="115000" />
</Feature>

Interesting, and dont see why ATI haven't fixed this yet.

unp|dissy · 21 Mar 2010 at 10:04

Danny_75 said:
Yep.
Set yours the same as mine or just set 775 and 1150 if you dont want to over volt.

Dude that's fixed my problem..

I owe you a pint.

What an idiotic and newbie issue from ATI

Danny_75 · 21 Mar 2010 at 10:04

yup.
They will prob do the fix on 10.3 drivers but till then you are sorted.

Fosters will do

unp|dissy · 21 Mar 2010 at 10:06

Danny_75 said:
yup.
They will prob do the fix on 10.3 drivers but till then you are sorted.

Fosters will do

Thanks again.

Durzel · 21 Mar 2010 at 11:27

Yeah a lot of people have reported the default 157/300 2D clocks as being unstable.

unp|dissy · 21 Mar 2010 at 11:30

Durzel said:
Yeah a lot of people have reported the default 157/300 2D clocks as being unstable.

Still fairly amazed that ati let this slip..