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[WU-TANG]GZA;18101165 said:
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[WU-TANG]GZA;18101209 said:
So what is thought to be the best way of installing the drivers, is it not simply removing old drivers, plug card in, install 10.12a?
but I will clean my front intake fans they are due a clean. [WU-TANG]GZA;18101165 said:
. That's the way I first read your reply mate lol. I see what you mean and I would have taken this approach but I've sold my motherboard, CPU, cooler and RAM to a friend already and he's paid upfront although he knew I wouldn't get all my parts till just after the year when DPD start delivering again.[WU-TANG]GZA;18101165 said:
[WU-TANG]GZA;18101165 said:
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Gotta be a heatsink issue...does happen.
Same case as you and my 6970 idles 42-43c at 20% fanspeed so something isn't right.
Your dust filters cleaned out?
I think so, the number on the side of the psu is upside down.
Mine is a Goliath, i've just changed the cooler and gfx card.
Think it may be your heatsink to be honest, if you do not want to re-seat it then just return it however if you do wish to re-seat it you could even whack some MX-3 on it too then for good temps.(only worth doing this though if you've done before as gfx cards require more paste than cpus.)
I also HATE the fan too.....i love the card but the fan is severely putting me off.
I hope a move around of the drivers helps as there is something wrong here. A 5850 beats the 4890 pretty easily so the 6970 should destroy the 4890.
The temps do seem a bit crazy too. Are they higher than everyone else?. In fact they must be or you'd realise yours is the norm, sorry for that brain fart there.
The fan noise seems a bit OTT too, could you set up a partition and do a fresh install of the OS?. It shouldn't be ramping up the fan like that and everyone else seems to be happy with the card other than you and another person who has upgraded from the 4870 to the 6950.
I'm looking forward to seeing some progress and benches. Good luck amigo.
Well the MSI 5850 is on order and is coming tomorrow. It's been on order since before Christmas (DPD + weather) but since this BIOS swap thing has happened and people not so happy with the overclocking of the MSI 5850 I decided to go with the 6950. From the benchmarks it seems like the 5850 is a 50% upgrade to a 4870 roughly and the 6950 is about the same in some titles although a lot closer in others (25-50%).
So to buy a 5870 when the 5850 is on it's way tomorrow would be pointless I think. OCuK have told me to refuse the order so I've really got tonight to think before ordering tomorrow. If I feel the 6950 won't be worth it at 1600x1200 then I might just accept the 5850 tomorrow and buy a i5 760 quad instead of the i3 540. Choices, choices, choices. TBH it's doing my head in
How do you feel about your card?. Also what did you upgrade from and do you feel the change since upgrading?.
Those are 'average' fps...it doesn't mean the minimum fps won't drop to the 40-60fps range. Source games love the extra speed on the CPU, so higher clock on your CPU could potentially give you higher frame rate (but to be honest I think your CPU is already fast enough, but you could clock it higher just in case).[WU-TANG]GZA;18100253 said:
I meant the 6970...I think I must have typed 6950 by mistake
