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Honestly3K

Honestly3K

Honestly3K

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Hi all,

I really need to test my HIS Radeon 7950 Boost in a PCIe 3.0 enabled and known working board please, it would also help if your board was Ivybridge CPU compatible (socket 1155) so I could maybe see if my CPU is ok too.

Can anyone help? Again don't mind travelling as I'm field based in my job anyway!

Email: [email protected]

Thank you in advance
Chris
 
Thanks for that useless post.

As said in my previous thread, my card isn't even running right at PCIe 2.0, hence me trying to ascertain its functionality by trying it in a known working compatible board.

Regardless, I didn't buy a PCIe 3.0 GPU to run it at PCIe 2.0. What would be the point in that, I could just buy a PCIe 2.0 card in the first place and save some money......


Edit; and yes I get it that theres no performance difference between 2.0 and 3.0 but for the sake of £20 in the boards, I know what i'll be doing
 
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Yes sir, tried so many different fixes.

Latest update was today from MSI who stated that its not a BIOS incompatibility, but the fact that my i7 3770K was manufactured in Costa Rica and that one from Malaysia would enable my GPU/Board to function correctly....

Go figure!
 
Yeah I did ask them but getting any specific answers out of them is very tiresome as they seem to skip over the questions I'm asking and give one word answers which aren't really the answers I'm looking for.

What's a pentium g620? Do you have a link? I was under the impression only i5 and i7 cousin had a pcie 3.0 controller
 
I was looking at the ivy celerons and i3's but no pcie 3.0. Shame because they are cheap enough for me to buy one for fault finding

Only i5 and i7 are pcie 3.0 enabled

Thanks wanna,I hope I will hear back from rma department tomorrow. will keep you posted
 
acme15 said:
I dont think your attitude is going to make people want to help you. :rolleyes:

The performance difference between PCI-E 2.0 and 3.0 isnt massive even with a top of the line card, and you wouldnt simply have "bought a PCI-E 2.0 card to save money" I have a PCI-E 3.0 card in a PCI-E 2.0 board, no PCI-E 2.0 only card would be able to match it.

PCI-E 3.0 cards are backwards compatible with 2.0. If your card isn't running right then it could be faulty. You might be underpowering it. There might be a problem with the motherboard, and so on.

Do you not have another card to test in the board, or any other PCI-E 1.0/2.0/3.0 board to test the card in to ascertain which is at fault?
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My attitude was only in response to someone else giving me some.

Forgive me, but I have about 11 threads up on various forums and after spending literally I should think about 100 hours plus, on this issue and not getting anywhere but throwing more money and time down the drain, I get a little frustrated with explaining myself over and over touching on the same points. Granted not everyone has access to all the threads and the most up to date story, so sorry for that

I have successfully tried a GTX 660ti and had it running at pcie 3.0 x16 in primary slot of Mpower board = success

I could not try my card in another pcie 3.0 board as nobody I know has one.

I have tried my Radeon 4870 in the mpower, runs fine at x16 pcie 2.0

My HIS 7950 appears to run fine in pcie 2.0 enabled motherboards, at the full speeds.

I have tried different PSU's, different memory, the most upto date BIOS's available.

Ive looked at cpu pins in the socket.

But the 7950 doesn't run in primary slot at all, and pc wont boot in this setup.
7950 runs at x2 pcie 3.0 in secondary slot only.

And this is the case on 3 separate MSI Mpower boards, and now one brand new Asus maximus v Formula, which also has the most upto date BIOS.

There was a chap from this forum who was kind enough to let me test his GTX 660ti in my board and that told me that the cpu is fine, but then my gpu wont work with it which tells me the gpu is faulty but overclockers RMA department said its fine which leads me wanting to cry myself to sleep at night
 
Hi guys, thanks for continued support :)

So, I just tried booting in Primary slot under Gen2. I also set the computer to boot from the PCIe slots. But same issue, wont boot whilst in the Primary slot under any Gen version. It just initialises the HD4000 inbuilt graphics in this scenario.

When I initially bought this GPU, I remember trying it in my old AMD 3.2 phenom BE board, socket AM3. And it didn't boot with it either.

Which prompted me to buy all this extra hardware which I probably didn't really need. The GPU was the only piece of hardware I initially wanted to upgrade.

But then I added, new CPU, new memory, board etc. And still have the same issue. So then RMA'd the card, and was told it was fine. Maybe it is fine, but from some very very strange and rare reason, it doesn't like something or some component in my system.

The GPU does seem to run at x16 pcie 2.0 in my brothers socket AM2 board.

But ive only had two different PCIe 3.0 enabled boards to try it on, and its never worked while paired with the rest of my setup.

Ideally I need to go to a local PC shop and see if I can test another core i5/i7 with my gpu and see what happens.

I'm leaning toward there just being something up with my GPU. As the Nvidia card worked fine with my CPU.

Thanks
 
Yes :)

My 7950 does basically the same thing with the power plugged in as a 4870 (my old card) does with the power cables disconnected, monitor flashes and cant find a source.

I really need access to another ivybridge pcie 3.0 compatible cpu really. Just to determine once and for all that the gpu is dud for whatever reason
 
Yes, tried all the latest BIOS's for both motherboard and gpu.

No change, tried a custom bios from MSI themselves, no change.
Its just a strange incompatibility anomaly!

Wazza, I spoke to 'Kahboom' from overclock.net who basically writes BIOS's for the HIS 7950 and he said I cant flash it with a BIOS from another card, even if its the same model.

Not sure why :S
 
Hey guys, anyone got a i5/i7 I can troubleshoot with? Don't mind travelling.

Or can anyone recommend an independent retailer where I can visit and troubleshoot?

Herts based if possible

Cheers
 
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