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AMD "Never Settle" 12.11 Driver - benchmarks

Hey fluidz I notice in your sig you have a MSI reference 7970. I was thinking of getting a couple of the OC versions and just wondered if you find the cooler to be loud?

Also, can anyone recommend some Active DP adaptors so that I can connect to 3 Dual-Link DVI (120Hz) monitors?
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Hey fluidz I notice in your sig you have a MSI reference 7970. I was thinking of getting a couple of the OC versions and just wondered if you find the cooler to be loud?

Also, can anyone recommend some Active DP adaptors so that I can connect to 3 Dual-Link DVI (120Hz) monitors?
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At 60%+ the fan slowly becomes louder, beyond comfortable, and at 100% its as irritating as a washing machine or a jumbo jet taking off lol.

However even though it is loud, with a custom fan profile, as provided by user Ltmatt (http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18454664), you can keep the average maximum to 50% - 60% if keeping the card under 70c. With a mild overclock of 1100/1600, i very rarely reach 65c in games so the fan isn't loud enough to become disturbing. Running a stress testing program such as Furmark can push those temps upto 85c, and as you can imagine, the noise, oh the noise!.. unbearable unless wearing headphones.

If you have the cash and are one to be bothered by noise, say you've spent time on your tower keeping noise to a minimum - as some do, definitely buy a non reference aftermarket 7970 as they are way quieter/cooler and not much more in price.

My previous 7970, a gigabyte windforce x3, with its 3 fan cooler, fan level at 100% is comparable to my msi 7970 reference @ 55%. It was very quiet in comparison.

If you're looking to crossfire 2 of those msi's, and push them hard, god help you. Your pc may just float.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEYJI8B4-kU - not my video by the way.
 
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There's a beta 7 driver up on the AMD site now, improves crossfire performance in black ops 2 is the only change by the looks of it.
 
NZB said:
There's a beta 7 driver up on the AMD site now, improves crossfire performance in black ops 2 is the only change by the looks of it.
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I'm waiting to see what surprises the next BETA set have in store for us.

Probably nuffin, but hay.... christmas is a comin.
 
AMD Catalyst Display Driver 12.11 Beta 7 description

- Resolves performance issues (where GPU activity runs at lower values than expected) seen on the AMD Radeon HD 7870
- AMD Catalyst Mobility 7970M performance for AMD Enduro Technology supported platforms has been substantially improved for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications. An updated driver for 7970M users featuring AMD Enduro Technology with additional DirectX 9 performance improvements will be released soon.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst1211betadriver.aspx

Thats what am interested in (Bold) That will/should also impact the APU`s besides the mobile :)
 
Does anybody know how to lower the 2d clocks in afterburner? I can't get them to go down to 150/650 , the slider isn't going that far.
 
when i set it as low as it will go the screen goes crazy! And its not even that low, about 750/650. But if I set the 2d clocks using overdrives .ini edit, to 300/650 all is fine.

I don't want to use overdrive, because i lose the manual fan control of afterburner.
 
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Does anyone know why my performance drops away after 1500 on the memory ?
I get my max 3dmark11 score at 1150/1500. If I up it to 1575 I get a much lower score...
All at stock volts in CCC.
 
Phage said:
Does anyone know why my performance drops away after 1500 on the memory ?
I get my max 3dmark11 score at 1150/1500. If I up it to 1575 I get a much lower score...
All at stock volts in CCC.
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If the card is pushed too hard it will auto throttle. Could be what is happening, might need a bit more power.
 
the card won't throttle because of high memory - iirc - what's happening is that ddr5 has built in error checking and if it gets errors it just sends the information again, and again and again...if you push it too hard you'll get artifacts but before then you'll just get less performance
 
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