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Just ordered a Gigabyte HD 7950 WF3...

Well, I hope I've made a good decision. Always been an NVIDIA fan apart from when I had the HD4890.

Fancied something more bang for buck.
 
Swifty55 said:
Well, I hope I've made a good decision. Always been an NVIDIA fan apart from when I had the HD4890.

Fancied something more bang for buck.
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OT but could you change your Sig please? Anytime I start reading what you type, I lose my reading skills and end up staring for a long time like a voyeur (I think that's how it is spelt) and have no idea what the thread is about :D
 
I just picked one of these up too, going from a 5850 to this, is quite some step up.

Battlefield at 1920x1200 everything on max vsync and solid 60hz, lovely :)

Curious what an easy stable clock is for these things?

Put mine to 950/1375 without touching the voltage and it's quite and cool (60 degrees). Much quieter than my old 5850!
 
1500 should be fine - 1750 is achievable with a memory voltage boost but not really worthwhile in games. Performance won't be that much different.

1150/1575 is a nice and easy overclock if you have the voltage control.
 
I've got 1100 on the core and 1500 on the memory with 1.130v

Runs everything I throw at it at more or less 60fps. Haven't found anything it'll choke at yet.

Bought mine about 4 months ago - I'm extremely happy.
 
millsd44 said:
I've got 1100 on the core and 1500 on the memory with 1.130v

Runs everything I throw at it at more or less 60fps. Haven't found anything it'll choke at yet.

Bought mine about 4 months ago - I'm extremely happy.
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Thats really good, I have to give mine 1.140 to get 1100 on the core.
 
PorkPieCat said:
slightly off topic but i'm not surprised gigabyte are voltage locking their windforce cards. the cooler design is missing a vrm cooler on one corner of the pcb and i've seen scattered reports of terrible vrm temps. i personally waited a month hoping for a vrm heatsink addition on the ghz edition but they decided not to improve the design (so i got a tf3 instead), and now they're voltage locking... must be related. the stock cooler has that missing vrm heatsink, almost all aibs including cheapo ones like vtx have it, apart from the asus dcu2 which surprise surprise was voltage locked with vrm temp problems from very early on. i'm basically guessing, but it makes perfect sense
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You got any more info pics on this, interested to read more?
 
kar said:
Thats really good, I have to give mine 1.140 to get 1100 on the core.
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I've had one crash as a result of the OC after 100+ hours of gaming, but only one. Probably could do with a bit more and closer to 1.140 but hey. What's your temps like at that? I'm getting around 32c idle and 57c load.
 
millsd44 said:
I've had one crash as a result of the OC after 100+ hours of gaming, but only one. Probably could do with a bit more and closer to 1.140 but hey. What's your temps like at that? I'm getting around 32c idle and 57c load.
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I double checked i'm actually 1.139v for 1125 / 1575, temps are 37 idle, 65 under load.

My case airflow isn't so good at the moment as I don't have the front intake fans on, and my missus has the central heating on :(( But I left it on the unigine demo for a couple hours and it's really solid.

I'm amazed how much power you can get for £250 now. Incredible.
 
Gtiracer said:
You got any more info pics on this, interested to read more?
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well if you check reviews from places like techpowerup or hexus, there's a vrm heatsink missing in the top left of the board (ram vrm) that is covered by all other aibs other than asus, which as i mentioned had vrm temp and voltage locking issues since launch at the start of the year. gigabyte's core vrms also have the flimsiest heatsink of any cooler i've seen (just now reminded myself of this after googling).

i've just googled for user reports and there are a few links on the first page where people are concerned about gigabyte vrm temps, around 100 degrees or higher. i mean they could easily be the exception, but i decided not to take the risk when i bought my card. ghz edition design can be seen on newegg (they never released reviews), and it's the same.
 
What a card. My card is overclocked a core 1100 memory 1575, volt at 1.137 temp at load 70c idle at 29-30c
Best £236 i have spent on plus i also got 6 games free as well
 
Ive got mine at 1100/1575 with 1.125V and it runs at 66 deg C running a few passes of Heaven.

In Heaven using the OCUK benchmark settings I get 2146 @ 1680x1050.
 
F42 here too.

I can reach 1200 on the clock, but temps go over 70 (around 73-74) and I have to push the volts up to 1.190 which I am not that comfortable with.

Have you guys looked at your GPUZ ASIC scores? Mine was 69.5 or something which is meant to be pretty poor? How reliable are these scores with respect to clocking?

That said I don't really mind as it is fast as hell and seems to clock pretty well imo.
 
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