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Msi 7970 Oc bad overclocker

TaKeN said:
Are these good cards? Three year warranty.. NO Voltage Lock?

WIN WIN Surely?
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kissenger said:
I really like mine. Dual bios, voltage unlocked, good warranty, and they tend to be good clockers.

Mine can do 1175/1725 at stock volts (1.74v) and others can do even more. I think LtMatt has one that can do 1200+/1800+.
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Yeah they must be better than average clocks as stock 7970 is 925 core and these are stock 1010 core.

Love mine, cheap and clocks better than some of the £400+ 7970 fancy cards. After selling the games mine worked out at £270. (kept sleeping dogs for myself)

Can go up to 1250 core 1900 memory. Will go higher but fan noise and temps become a problem. Can run 1125/1719 at stock voltage of 1.112. Can run Ghz edition speed of 1150 with a 2 notch voltage increase to 1.125.
Can run memory up to around 1725 before i even need to start increasing the voltage on it. With a voltage bump on the memory i can run stable @ 1875 24/7. I don't use it that fast though, its serious overkill. 1719 @ stock volts provides 330gb of bandwidth which is golden.

I know several people that have bought this card, the worst clocker did 1170 which was kissenger.

Your mileage may vary though. :)
 
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As mentioned it's a waste of time running Furmark, even if the cards didn't throttle (which they do) they are no longer physically designed to cope with that much load, it was part of the sacrifice for allowing GPU's to grow to the size they are now.

When TDP eventually gets reduced Furmark might become a relevant stability tester again, until then I would suggest using Heaven.
 
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TaKeN said:
Thanks for that!

What sort of temps are you hitting? Noisy? :)
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65-75c (depending on the game) on my own 24/7 overclock (1156 Core 1719 Memory) with a quiet fan profile. (50%-60% fan speed)

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Anything past 60% fan speed is loud.
 
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I wonder if fluidz ever got past 1125/1600? Driver updates and things like that can sometimes help overclocking efforts.

I ended up getting a max stable OC of 1190/1800 at 1.21v core and stock memory. I wonder if they are using some quite good VRMs on these cards as the memory overclocks people seem to be getting are ridiculous. I'm not even sure I've maxed out at 1800!
 
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You should really think about putting those under water matt, at least one of your cards will do in excess of 1300mhz. Should have ~1.4v available via trixx too ;)
 
pgi947 said:
You should really think about putting those under water matt, at least one of your cards will do in excess of 1300mhz. Should have ~1.4v available via trixx too ;)
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Too much hassle and no games need those clocks. ;)

TaKeN said:
Not bad Matt ;)

These are Reference cards IIRC?
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Yes they are reference but they are not the typical reference designs. There were two reference designs for AIB's. This is the other one which is fairly rare from what ive seen.


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Tommy has one of these cards as well, if he reads my late edit maybe he will post his findings with this card.
 
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TaKeN said:
Interesting! Are they better boards, or cheaper versions? :(
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Its a reference card, its not better or cheaper as far as i know. The msi box says they use better parts, military grade etc. Whether that actually means anything or not is up for debate though. :D
 
LtMatt said:
Its a reference card, its not better or cheaper as far as i know. The msi box says they use better parts, military grade etc. Whether that actually means anything or not is up for debate though. :D
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I keep googling. But can't find anything about these cards. Not even a single review..
 
pgi947 said:
Cooling configurator has pics of the pcb ;)
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Ta! It's a Reference design according to that, but just a bog standard Reference Pic I think.

LtMatt said:
Impressive i searched the net high and low and couldn't find a review of this card months ago.
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I spent agessssssssssss having a search! Either way It's a good card, provided you can source one for £299 with the free games.

Overclocks well, runs cool enough within limits.

Reference board, we believe.. judging by the date these were first released? :)
 
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pgi947 said:
Cooling configurator has pics of the pcb ;)
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They have an AMD stock photo of a reference PCB. So basically they're saying it is the same as reference.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

If anyone watercools this card can you take a photo of the PCB please :)
 
TaKeN said:
Very weird. I can't understand why there are no PCB pictures!
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I compared it with various reference pcb pictures and I'm 99.9% certain it's the exact same as a reference board in every way apart from the bios and a different fan cover.
 
Will have two if these with me shortly heading under water will easily snap some pics.

I thought the ek pics was always a picture of the actual cards pcb?
 
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