gigabyte wf3 appreciation society thoughts,issues,and overclocks!

Darren_uk · 13 Dec 2012 at 14:46

Good to hear Chris, well mines on its way now ,cant wait, it be going into my 2nd pc thats beside my main pc , i will oc mine to a hd7970 no more than that tomorrow.
my main pc is water cooled ,but my 2nd pc is not

NightSt@lk3r · 14 Dec 2012 at 14:12

This 7950 WF3 has highlighted one issue for me, my 10 year old Thermaltake Lanfire case needs replacing as the air flow sucks!

Sleeping Dogs got the GPU upto 70c last night at 1150 1.218v and my CPU temp went up 10c higher than i have ever seen it before!

This card is literally baking my CPU

humbug · 14 Dec 2012 at 14:30

NightSt@lk3r said:
This 7950 WF3 has highlighted one issue for me, my 10 year old Thermaltake Lanfire case needs replacing as the air flow sucks!

Sleeping Dogs got the GPU upto 70c last night at 1150 1.218v and my CPU temp went up 10c higher than i have ever seen it before!

This card is literally baking my CPU

Chips for dinner....

NightSt@lk3r · 14 Dec 2012 at 14:56

humbug said:
Chips for dinner....

Yet Far Cry 3 still crashes within 10 minutes at anything over 1000 on the core even though gpu temp maxes out at around 60c in that game :confused:

humbug · 14 Dec 2012 at 14:58

NightSt@lk3r said:
Yet Far Cry 3 still crashes within 10 minutes at anything over 1000 on the core even though gpu temp maxes out at around 60c in that game

Moar volts, just a bit more.

NightSt@lk3r · 14 Dec 2012 at 15:01

humbug said:
Moar volts, just a bit more.

it will run far cry 3 all day at 1000 on stock volts, but anything over 1000 is a no go no matter how much volts i put through it.

Yet any other game/benchmark i can leave running all day at 1150 1.218v without a hitch.

chris-82 · 14 Dec 2012 at 15:04

what memory clocks and core are people running on stock volts for 24/7

and
memory clocks and core clocks and voltage with voltage tweeks for 24/7

NightSt@lk3r · 14 Dec 2012 at 15:06

Im only running 1375 on the memory on stock volts haven't tried to go any higher, for the core around 1010 seems to be about my limit on stock volts.

NoobCannon · 14 Dec 2012 at 15:08

my windforce 3x runs at 1200/1800mhz 1256mv core 1649mem v

never gets above 58'c with a custom fan profile

really need to change my sig, run at 4.9ghz aswell now

chris-82 · 14 Dec 2012 at 15:18

NoobCannon said:
my windforce 3x runs at 1200/1800mhz 1256mv core 1649mem v

never gets above 58'c with a custom fan profile

really need to change my sig, run at 4.9ghz aswell now

wow you have that memory running mega fast! what are your vrm temps? do you have your fan on quite hight to get those temps at that voltage? surprised thats safe tbh

NightSt@lk3r · 15 Dec 2012 at 17:52

Think i have fixed the BSOD's i was having when leaving the computer idle for several hours, setting power options to never turn off the monitors.

NoobCannon · 15 Dec 2012 at 19:06

chris-82 said:
wow you have that memory running mega fast! what are your vrm temps? do you have your fan on quite hight to get those temps at that voltage? surprised thats safe tbh

vrm temps are hitting 67'c in bf3

chris-82 · 15 Dec 2012 at 19:22

NoobCannon said:
vrm temps are hitting 67'c in bf3

are you on air or water? you must have your fan turned up pretty high or?

NightSt@lk3r said:
Think i have fixed the BSOD's i was having when leaving the computer idle for several hours, setting power options to never turn off the monitors.

i think im getting this now i leave the pc awhile come back and it wont come out of sleep mode!pc still running but wont start up the monitors and let me use the pc have to turn the whole thing off via the psu power switch!

how come this happens?

NightSt@lk3r · 15 Dec 2012 at 19:41

chris-82 said:
i think im getting this now i leave the pc awhile come back and it wont come out of sleep mode!pc still running but wont start up the monitors and let me use the pc have to turn the whole thing off via the psu power switch!

how come this happens?

Yep id either come back and the monitors would be on but the screens would be blank or come back to a BSOD, either way a hard reboot was required to get it back.

Had this same issue with my 7850 and 7950.

chris-82 · 16 Dec 2012 at 12:06

NightSt@lk3r said:
Yep id either come back and the monitors would be on but the screens would be blank or come back to a BSOD, either way a hard reboot was required to get it back.

Had this same issue with my 7850 and 7950.

what causes this?

chris-82 · 16 Dec 2012 at 13:16

well after a bit of fiddeling with volts and fan profiles i now have the card running 1150/1450 @1.225v core temp max 58c and vrm's max 64vrm 1 and 66c vrm2 (playing metro 2033 everything maxed)

pretty happy with those temps tbh

any point in pushing for higher clocks? will i realistically see any performance gains in game pushing any further?

Nelly · 16 Dec 2012 at 13:47

Just for info, you can check your Gigabyte warranty details here, same for motherboards >> http://ggcs.gigabyte.com/service/CheckWarrantyStatus_IN.aspx

NightSt@lk3r · 16 Dec 2012 at 14:39

chris-82 said:
what causes this?

Must be a driver bug, i only had the issue with my 7850 and 7950, with my nvidia card in my system it doesn't happen.

Nelly · 16 Dec 2012 at 15:38

I may as well post in here, their are new versions of the Gigabyte 7950 WF3 with BIOS - FZ0 - Manufacture date: November 2012 - See this thread >> http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18469510

It's basically a GHz version of the 7950, with the following default clocks @ 1.25v - Voltage is locked - unless you use 'Force Constant Voltage' in MSI Afterburner, doing so loses powerplay - power saving features in desktop.

Mine did 1150MHz on the core @ 1.25v, anything higher would result in artifacts in Heaven 3.0, someone elses did 1200MHz @ 1.25v le silicon lottery.

wazza300 · 16 Dec 2012 at 15:42

^^^ you cant flash it with an older bios? to get around the voltage issue?