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Mal X

Mal X

Mal X

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Sapphire 7970 OC Dual X, i almost got the 7950 but changed my mind at the last moment, because mine cost only 40 quid more than the 7950, i did loads of research before i purchased, so i decided against the MSI Lightning

the card looks far better than in the photos, but i was shocked to see how large and heavy it is, miles bigger than my GTX 8800...

the fans look great, very clean and perfectly shiny :cool: i cant wait to get it OC, but this will be a few weeks yet
 
yea thanks, i'll have to get my new rig photographed soon, it's now finished and ready to get sent into the shop

i just hope it doesn't suffer from poor drivers
 
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Don't worry about the drivers. I've had loads of ATi cards over the last nine years, and apart from some recurring installation issues right at the end of my time with a 4870X2, they were absolutely fine (it might have even been my fault for all I know). If you do find one driver problematic, then you won't have to wait long since AMD release them regularly, and you can always reinstall the previous one while you wait for the next. :)


p.s. after using it for a while, let us know what the performance is like when AA is applied. Apparently this is improved and I would like to know for future purchases. That was the only big thing that let the 4870X2 down imo. I expect memory was the culprit there as it only had 1gb (usable).
 
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mine is not installed yet ;) but i'll keep you posted, because i have to see if my new rig works first, so i'm sending it into the shop soon, i'm not sure if it's wired up correctly/ or if the CPU is dead after i've lapped it.... i've messed around with it quite a lot! ... i'll get the experts to fix all the niggles first otherwise this will drive me crazy, plus i need them to transfer all my Steam files over from my old rig

OC seems to be about 1.3V...GPU 1280mhz.....Mem 1860mhz, but i doubt i'll need it as high as this.

i researched this card quite a lot, if it has bad coil whine you can cure it by painting the coils/ capacitors with gloss varnish, i used to do this for a living... you can easily varnish the whole card it doesn't halm it at all, just dont get it into the sockets etc or on the GPU.

you can spill it onto the rear face of the card, let it run around the rear area and then let it drain off, just dont use the card for a day, let it dry out totally, this will cure the whine.

i'm very impressed with the fan blades, they look even better than my Xigmateks, very shiny finish to them
 
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i'm not jealous of the GTX670 at all, simply because i got my 7970 quite cheap. ;)

i cant say any more i'm afraid, but take care because stocks are running low and they're not being replemished at all, so now is the time to buy... this week!
 
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Mal X said:
mine is not installed yet ;) but i'll keep you posted, because i have to see if my new rig works first, so i'm sending it into the shop soon, i'm not sure if it's wired up correctly/ or if the CPU is dead after i've lapped it.... i've messed around with it quite a lot! ... i'll get the experts to fix all the niggles first otherwise this will drive me crazy, plus i need them to transfer all my Steam files over from my old rig

OC seems to be about 1.3V...GPU 1280mhz.....Mem 1860mhz, but i doubt i'll need it as high as this.

i researched this card quite a lot, if it has bad coil whine you can cure it by painting the coils/ capacitors with gloss varnish, i used to do this for a living... you can easily varnish the whole card it doesn't halm it at all, just dont get it into the sockets etc or on the GPU.

you can spill it onto the rear face of the card, let it run around the rear area and then let it drain off, just dont use the card for a day, let it dry out totally, this will cure the whine.

i'm very impressed with the fan blades, they look even better than my Xigmateks, very shiny finish to them
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sounds like a brilliant way of royally screwing your warranty... if you get one with coil whine why not just RMA it until you get a good one?

you're so knowledgeable about computers that you are sending it to a shop to get them to fit your graphics card and OC it for you?
 
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if it has bad coil whine you can cure it by painting the coils/ capacitors with gloss varnish, i used to do this for a living... you can easily varnish the whole card it doesn't halm it at all, just dont get it into the sockets etc or on the GPU.

you can spill it onto the rear face of the card, let it run around the rear area and then let it drain off, just dont use the card for a day, let it dry out totally, this will cure the whine.
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you used to do this for a living? :confused:

is there a large market for varnished graphics cards then?
 
panyan said:
you used to do this for a living? :confused:

is there a large market for varnished graphics cards then?
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no there isn't, google anything to do with gloss paint and coil whine and the only reference to pouring paint over a PCB that comes up is this thread

utter bobbins

remember this comes from a guy who has just admitted that he has broken his own computer possibly by lapping the CPU or quite what he doesn't know and is giving it to PCWorld or similar to get them to install his graphics card
 
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you used to do this for a living? :confused:

is there a large market for varnished graphics cards then?
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Prob varnished fences ;0)
I have the 7950 version n runs well. Though when monitor goes to sleep it won't wake back up and I have to reset the whole system, on the ofd ovcasion ehen it does start it says something like "vga driver recovered" or something like that Also when on desktop browsing and monitor set to 120hz it flickers now n then.

On sapphire pre-overclock bf3 runs on ultra 1920x1080 at around 50fps avg. tried a few times to put in overclock others have got but locks my system up so will stick with what sapphire have it at for now.

Overall happy with BF3 performance but loads of annoying niggles. Also took me ages getting Crysis 2 to c
 
panyan said:
you used to do this for a living? :confused:

is there a large market for varnished graphics cards then?
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Prob varnished fences ;0)
I have the 7950 version n runs well. Though when monitor goes to sleep it won't wake back up and I have to reset the whole system, on the ofd ovcasion ehen it does start it says something like "vga driver recovered" or something like that Also when on desktop browsing and monitor set to 120hz it flickers now n then.

On sapphire pre-overclock bf3 runs on ultra 1920x1080 at around 50fps avg. tried a few times to put in overclock others have got but locks my system up so will stick with what sapphire have it at for now.

Overall happy with BF3 performance but loads of annoying niggles. Also took me ages getting Crysis 2 to come on. Had to manually delete a file and then verify it again as had problems with some physics driver it loaded when I had an nvidea card. Maybe I ought to have got the GTX680 but will stick with it and hope drivers improve.
 
lol @ the varnish ....

Thats almost as bad as this one time when someone bought a graphics card that was too long for his case, and asked if cutting a 1 cm width at the end of the card off with saw would be ok .....

Some people!
 
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no there isn't, google anything to do with gloss paint and coil whine and the only reference to pouring paint over a PCB that comes up is this thread

utter bobbins

remember this comes from a guy who has just admitted that he has broken his own computer possibly by lapping the CPU or quite what he doesn't know and is giving it to PCWorld or similar to get them to install his graphics card
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http://theovalich.wordpress.com/200...w-and-how-to-fix-it-no-more-gtx280-squealing/

no it's all over the web, i've seen it on at least 5 forums.... mind you it is crazy to do because of the warranty, i used to work for Fisher instruments in Lymington, i used to solder ciruit boards, after doing so i used to varnish them... fact, it's dead easy and perfectly safe

no i'm installing the card myself this afternoon, but i want the shop to check it all out first, i see nothing wrong with this
 
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