asus 7970 dc2t xfire

Diagro · 11 Feb 2013 at 04:00

weehamish said:
To me if he puts the direct cu on the bottom all the heat from it wont go ontop of the other card and be pulled put by case fans.

With the referance card on the bottom all the heat from the top card is being chucked at it?

Thats how i look at it anyways.

The way you put is all the heat from the top card goes onto the bottom card, so the top is fine but the bottom is getting hotter and hotter the longer you game! My way both cards will be cool as they are balanced by their own heat generation and with a decent case they wont really get any heat from the fan card.

Watercooling a direct cu 2 is just pointless imo.

You are wrong then.
My DC2 would die without watercooling at 1.39v ;P

mr-fluff · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:25

just discovered the ek 7970 dcii waterblock has the input and output on the same side which sux for xfire. anyone know of an alternative without going to a universal block or will i just have to work around the problem?

Gregster · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:35

mr-fluff said:
just discovered the ek 7970 dcii waterblock has the input and output on the same side which sux for xfire. anyone know of an alternative without going to a universal block or will i just have to work around the problem?

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You should be able to get the CF blocks for your coolers but not looked if you don't want to use 90's.

Martini1991 · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:39

Diagro said:
You are wrong then.
My DC2 would die without watercooling at 1.39v ;P

DCII's are voltage locked now, so he has a point.
Don't care much for him, but doesn't half get tiresome watching him get ripped constantly.

Also, I'd have thought the cooler could handle 1.39v, I mean we've got references getting 1.35v blasted in them (And we're going back as far as 40nm 5870 reference coolers having to take care of 1.35v too)

weehamish · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:45

Martini1991 said:
DCII's are voltage locked now, so he has a point.
Don't care much for him, but doesn't half get tiresome watching him get ripped constantly.

Also, I'd have thought the cooler could handle 1.39v, I mean we've got references getting 1.35v blasted in them (And we're going back as far as 40nm 5870 reference coolers having to take care of 1.35v too)

Haters gonna hate :\

Why did you get the Direct CU 2 if you planned on WC though? The MSI OC is supposed to be the best 7970 for OCing and would have saved you around £60+

Martini1991 · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:49

I didn't plan on watercooling, I got a DCII 7970 because I wanted an uber quiet one, and I believe I was the/if not one of the first people to notice they'd start voltage locking them on this board.

So I was planning to put it to crazy speeds.

I ended up with a 7950 Crossfire after that, then went back to a single 7970, I did actually get the MSI 7970 OC, but the first one had a screw missing so RMA'ed.

The second died on me on day 2, so I went for a Gigabyte Windforce and threw the 1.256v BIOS into it to take it to 1100MHZ and left it there.

weehamish · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:52

I have the ASUS card and i can get 1150MHz at stock volts?

I picked this card for the same reason as you, NOISE, i hate noisy cards, i run the card at a fixed 30% fan speed and it barely tops 51C full load.

Im happy with the card and like the backplate it comes with it just looks quality compare to other cards.

It is a bit of a beast though being 3 slots.

Diagro · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:53

Martini1991 said:
DCII's are voltage locked now, so he has a point.
Don't care much for him, but doesn't half get tiresome watching him get ripped constantly.

Also, I'd have thought the cooler could handle 1.39v, I mean we've got references getting 1.35v blasted in them (And we're going back as far as 40nm 5870 reference coolers having to take care of 1.35v too)

They are?

My first was and this is a new one i got in january and with the correct GPU-Tweak version its volts go up to 1.45v

They are locked if you dont have the correct software

Martini1991 · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:58

Diagro said:
They are?

My first was and this is a new one i got in january and with the correct GPU-Tweak version its volts go up to 1.45v

They are locked if you dont have the correct software

Maybe Asus caved under pressure and released a GPU Tweak with an updated repository of VRM's, as that I believe was why it didn't work.

As I was using GPU Tweak.

Or you've managed to get old stock.
This was months ago now though, but you only have to google around to see.

weehamish said:
I have the ASUS card and i can get 1150MHz at stock volts?

I picked this card for the same reason as you, NOISE, i hate noisy cards, i run the card at a fixed 30% fan speed and it barely tops 51C full load.

Im happy with the card and like the backplate it comes with it just looks quality compare to other cards.

It is a bit of a beast though being 3 slots.

Mine was a bit of a stinker, it'd only do 1075MHZ at stock voltage, although my stock voltage was 1.175v.

Diagro · 13 Feb 2013 at 18:59

Martini1991 said:
Maybe Asus caved under pressure and released a GPU Tweak with an updated repository of VRM's, as that I believe was why it didn't work.

As I was using GPU Tweak.

Or you've managed to get old stock.
This was months ago now though, but you only have to google around to see.

Nah its one of the latest batches of these cards.
And its a GPU tweak from ages ago.. many people shared success with it but others including myself on my original dcII did not.

These are amazing Cards when you can increase the volts

1280/1850 is my max so far

Martini1991 · 13 Feb 2013 at 19:01

Diagro said:
Nah its one of the latest batches of these cards.
And its a GPU tweak from ages ago.. many people shared success with it but others including myself on my original dcII did not.

These are amazing Cards when you can increase the volts 1280/1850 is my max so far

Then you knew they'd been voltage locked :confused:

So they've obviously made a change since then?

Diagro · 13 Feb 2013 at 19:02

Martini1991 said:
Then you knew they'd been voltage locked
So they've obviously made a change since then?

Ofc i knew I got a DCII when they first came out -.-

Its stick locked on anything but GPU-Tweak V2.2.1.4

Martini1991 · 13 Feb 2013 at 19:04

Okay, unless I'm suffering trauma to the brain, you keep saying contradicting things.

1.) Your current card works with X software, but your old card didn't.
2.) Now you've mentioned about you knew you got a DCII when it first came out? (Not even sure why you said this)
3.) And that it was stock locked on anything but X software (What is stock locked, your new card or your old card?)

Diagro · 13 Feb 2013 at 19:05

EH? When lol

mr-fluff · 13 Feb 2013 at 19:28

when i got my DCII i didn't think i would watercool otherwise i would have probably gone MSI oc but now it seems it'll be easier to watercool 2 DCII's instead of mixed cards.

weehamish · 13 Feb 2013 at 19:40

My stock volts are 1.170 and it can do 1150 easy, i have 2 7970s here atm and both oc 1150 easy.

Martini1991 · 13 Feb 2013 at 19:46

weehamish said:
My stock volts are 1.170 and it can do 1150 easy, i have 2 7970s here atm and both oc 1150 easy.

Yeah, my 7970 DCII was just a stinker

My MSI 7970 did 1125MHZ on its stock voltage, 1125MHZ being the top for the BIOS I couldn't be fussed messing with or doing unofficial clocking.

weehamish · 13 Feb 2013 at 20:31

Martini1991 said:
Yeah, my 7970 DCII was just a stinker
My MSI 7970 did 1125MHZ on its stock voltage, 1125MHZ being the top for the BIOS I couldn't be fussed messing with or doing unofficial clocking.

Yeah i never overvolt really 1150 -1300 is not worth the hassle and extra software you need to do it.

I dont bench, i only game so wont notice the difference lol.

Diagro · 13 Feb 2013 at 20:59

Martini1991 said:
Okay, unless I'm suffering trauma to the brain, you keep saying contradicting things.

1.) Your current card works with X software, but your old card didn't.
2.) Now you've mentioned about you knew you got a DCII when it first came out? (Not even sure why you said this)
3.) And that it was stock locked on anything but X software (What is stock locked, your new card or your old card?)

Cheeky Ninja edit ;p

1) Yup
2)I said that because i knew about the Locked volts as i had a DCII when they first came out
3)My old one was locked on all software, but the new one is unlocked on the 2.2.1.4 GPU-Tweak.

Cleared up for you?

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