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7950 TF3 overclock on stock voltage
- Thread starter Nuclear Fusion
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Yes, that's it Mal
I noticed you edited your post - probably wise you wouldn't want to be suspended again would you?
I think the general consensus from the thread where you fried your old card was that you weren't listening to people who were trying to help (myself, Dave and Greg et al.) and it backfired.
It worries me when you're giving out overclocking advice which involves voltages that's all. I don't know the safe numbers on 7970's as I don't own one but I'm wincing every time you give advice on the matter
the safe voltage varies enormously, but i'm guessing it starts to be problem at 1.2v and over.
As I only have one infraction for being mean to Dave Beast I would say that you learn some lessons from your time-out's
you learn your lessons due to waiting 10 weeks for a new card to arrive
.... that is one hell of a long time if you're addicted to gaming like i am
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yes true, because here is best, i've investigated all the other online computer stores and there's only one other place as good as this, all the rest either have additional carriage charges, or quote cheap prices without adding the VAT until much later.... at the checkout!
this is a cheap trick designed to catch you out and so many do this on Google, they advertise on search engines ex-vat
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Dunno, I chose to save the overclock profiles that I was happy with (I think you can save 5) and each time I select them they seem to work OK.
edit; had your card gone into powersave mode as that has happened with my previous card.
How do you check?
no idea, but with my MSI, I also get ``DRIVER MISSING``.....``cant connect to the internet``, so whatever is going on, the programme deffo feels very buggy.
sometimes the voltage returns to stock if you dial in too much mem/gpu, you'll press ``save`` only to see it return to 1.17v, it does this the other way around too, it sometimes wont accept more mem/gpu, unless you dial in more volts as well.
i'm going to delete MSI and only use Trixx with Unique Heaven, and just make sure i stay well away from 1.22v, to be honest i dont think you need to go much higher anyway, because at 1.193v it's probably a 25% performance increase..... because max Catalyst gives you 15% or close to, not sure, it's either 15 or 20%.
when i had mine on 1.3v i noticed no performance boost over 1.22, i only noticed artifacts on the screen...... silly me ignored this, i just thought this was typical Crysis 1...... i then backed off to 1.22v, the card ran much better/smoother.
on MSI it never crashed at 1.3v either, but i also noticed strange artifacts here as well, the video would stop start stop start as the slider went up to max load all the time, i just thought ``i dont like seeing this, what do i do.. help``..``oh ****, i'd better back right off``
i then noticed the card making a horrible sparking sound, just like an arc welder, i then realised the card was ****ed, i went to see my friend at our local pc shop and he said the card is dieing, it then died first thing the next morning
never mind now, these things happen in life, but it also feels a bit sad for some odd reason and quite a shock too, i was very cross with myself, because once it blows you suddenly realise why it happened and it's so easy to avoid too, just dont go over 1.2 if you dont know what you're doing !
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No forget what I said, I remember now that the gpu clock 'halved' it's speed in powersave so you see if that was the case.
Are you using AB 2.2.3?
edit; @ Mal X When you save profiles press save then press a profile number or it will not save (don't press the profile number then hit save) Not wanting to sound like teaching/suck eggs etc
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I can only think that you may have previously 'applied' the settings for the core and memory but when you tweaked the voltage you did not apply again?
How come in another thread you said you never went over 1.25? Your figures don't add up Mal...
I did, thats why i'm baffled as well. I was playing dota 2 and my fan just went quite all of a sudden and i check the core Volt and it went back to stock
You mention it here Mal....1.25 it blew but last post was 1.3. Please stop giving advice and please stop insulting me with personal insults. Twice you have referred to me and Rusty as having "Bi-Polar disorder" I let it go the first time but sorry I find this disgusting and unwarranted. I suggest you think before you type in future as it is not only me and Rusty you offend but the millions of sufferers with this affliction.
Yeah Mal you have tripped up there, i haven't heard of people blowing their cards on 1.25 apart from you so i take that with a pinch of salt. Also before you blew it you would see warning signs well before.
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i did say i saw warning signs, i saw these at 1.3v, that's why i backed off, but i still saw these at 1.2 to 1.25v later on, i backed off from 1.3v and then i played around at about 1.2 v for quite some time, too much happened, you cant expect me to recall exactly what i did.... my first shot was to try the OCs that i got off the web and these were ;-
1.3v... 1280... 1860, i've mentioned this before, i then backed off as said, i have all the other similar figures written down too...... but the fact is the card did not blow at 1.3, it blew 2 days later at between 1.2 and 1.25
i did not OC up to this figure.... i started straight away at 1.3 v
ok i was very stupid, yes of course i was, but Greg is wrong, the card did not blow at 1.3v
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