7970 Drivers plus OCing

eyetrip · 18 May 2012 at 16:46

Mal X said:
you havent been helping, you gave up quickly and started trolling me, i've been struggling all afternoon, i've complained to the mods about this

You know, I was going to try help again later, when I had rested (I did say I was too tired), but if you are the sort of person who moans to mods when people try to help, but just not to your satisfaction, then I'm done for good here.

Good luck, and I do hope you do get sorted in the end...

Gregster · 18 May 2012 at 16:54

eyetrip said:
You know, I was going to try help again later, when I had rested (I did say I was too tired), but if you are the sort of person who moans to mods when people try to help, but just not to your satisfaction, then I'm done for good here.

Good luck, and I do hope you do get sorted in the end...

+1 to this. People have given you good advice, which you have chosen to ignore. I have tried to help (when you lapped your processor you may have done something wrong, if it wont hold even 4ghz). I gave you the easiest way to OC your CPU and others have given you the easiest way to OC the GPU.

I take offence to helping (including taking photo's to make it easier for you) and then getting told none of us are helping.

Best of luck.

dave_beast · 18 May 2012 at 16:54

Mal X said:
you havent been helping, you gave up quickly and started trolling me, i've been struggling all afternoon, i've complained to the mods about this

Good for you, i've been giving good advice to you since the start of the thread, and when I realised you're unsure about what you doing I gave you some advice that you should have heeded, however, you chose not to and continued to try to achieve something that you didn't understand.

dave_beast said:
Mal give up mate, save yourself the myocardial infarction and do some research before putting it into practice. There's nothing more dangerous to your system than trying to overclock this and that without knowing what you're doing. Just trying to save you from the disappointment of a dead component.

eyetrip said:
You know, I was going to try help again later, when I had rested (I did say I was too tired), but if you are the sort of person who moans to mods when people try to help, but just not to your satisfaction, then I'm done for good here.

Good luck, and I do hope you do get sorted in the end...

This, i'm out, good luck.

Mal X · 18 May 2012 at 17:01

psychodil said:
I'll try and help if I can mal, you sound genuine enough to me. What exactly are you trying to do? Are you comfortable navigating your bios and changing settings on the bios?

yes i can get into BIOS ok, i did what Greg said but it just crashed 4 times in a row, i dont think it's the cpu because the pc wouldn't be working if so, plus i've already stressed the system/ used Prime....pc is turning off when exiting bios

Mal X · 18 May 2012 at 17:04

gregster said:
+1 to this. People have given you good advice, which you have chosen to ignore. I have tried to help (when you lapped your processor you may have done something wrong, if it wont hold even 4ghz). I gave you the easiest way to OC your CPU and others have given you the easiest way to OC the GPU.

I take offence to helping (including taking photo's to make it easier for you) and then getting told none of us are helping.

Best of luck.

no you did say you'd stick by me and help more than this... it's pretty obvious that this wasn't going to be easy, i would have helped far more if someone had needed me !!!... but no you quit

Mal X · 18 May 2012 at 17:12

ok it's working on 4.4

i'm now going to take it higher :cool:

Rusty0611 · 18 May 2012 at 17:13

Mal X said:
no you did say you'd stick by me and help more than this... it's pretty obvious that this wasn't going to be easy, i would have helped far more if someone had needed me !!!... but no you quit

It's because you're rude and ungrateful to be frank. I can't be bothered to help either. You aren't even providing any details for people to go on; just a load of incoherent tripe to which there's no underlying useful information for people to do anything with.

Do yourself a favour and reset everything to default: BIOS and GPU settings. Then do as a million people have said and actually spend some time researching it. There's a million guides out there for people with no knowledge of what to do. You also need to stop getting so worked up: overclocking is trial and error. When you change a setting, you're then testing if it's stable or not. If it isn't then you've gone too far or you need to tweak some settings.

Start off in small increments. But if you were following a guide you'd know this already.

You've basically blundered your way into your BIOS and MSI Afterburner haphazardly changing settings without a clue of what they do and what changing them does and how they all relate to each other. I haven't got any time for this.

You seriously need to do your basic homework first and then post back here EXACTLY what you've done without all the garbage inbetween the lines. Most people are going to close the thread if they have to read all this nonsense you post. Then if you're lucky you won't have offended enough people that somebody will try to assist you still.....

All the best.

psychodil · 18 May 2012 at 17:20

OK keep an eye on your con temps when benching, you might have to increase voltage soon to get much higher, unless you are auto overclocking in which case it has probably done it already. My 2500k does 4.8 ghz but I have a h100.

Mal X · 18 May 2012 at 17:39

psychodil said:
OK keep an eye on your con temps when benching, you might have to increase voltage soon to get much higher, unless you are auto overclocking in which case it has probably done it already. My 2500k does 4.8 ghz but I have a h100.

hi and thanks for your help, it wont go above 4.4 right now, the pc turned off at 4.6

i have not adjusted any of the settings in Asrock, it's running on auto only, my guess is it might be something else, i've finished for now i'll take the pc home.

card looks ok under stress but i cant be sure, msi afterburner pushed it hard

4.4 might be ok for me, i might not bother with it any more..... but i do have a massive question mark over the cooler paste, i'm only using pretty poor silver paint stuff, nowhere near as thick as the megahalems paste....... but to be honest, it's turning off too quickly for the fault to be overheating, it's going Exit... then off !

psychodil · 18 May 2012 at 18:26

You need more volts then. Increase CPU core voltage one tiny step at a time, and try 4.5 first. Once you get it to boot, run a CPU benchmark and check your load temps while it is running with a program called coretemp.

mattf · 18 May 2012 at 18:39

Get an ivy bridge 4.6 no probs

and I'm a newbie overclocker and gpu is not so hard either my 7970 is running lovely

psychodil · 18 May 2012 at 18:46

mattf said:
Get an ivy bridge 4.6 no probs and I'm a newbie overclocker and gpu is not so hard either my 7970 is running lovely

Sandy's typically clock a bit higher than ivy's, and what you mean 'no probs'? Lol you have a h100 which helps a bit, mal x hasnt

mattf · 18 May 2012 at 18:55

I got mine to 4.6 after 2 attempts (reseating the h100 got the temps to a good level). The ivy thing was a joke after all the ivy bashing

mattf · 18 May 2012 at 18:59

Like you say a bit of research and advise here and there and it is doable. There are plenty of guides on the net. A byter cooler would help as you say

Mal X · 19 May 2012 at 10:51

ok i'll open a new thread well away from here.

right 7970 is working great, but i left Prime running all yesterday without realising :eek:

.... i ran MSI Afterburner on full stress for quite some time, plus i gamed

i'm on 1.25v....1220....1700 mem, on auto; the fan is about 68 degrees, on manual about 60 degrees at about 60% speed, above this it starts getting noisy...but reduces the temp quickly

card hasn't crashed once and it looks like it can go higher, but i think i'll leave it and research/concentrate on the MOBO for aditional OC.

i put max stress on Prime on the CPU, but i couldn't see the core temperature, so i've just downloaded a core temp software.... this might tell me the state of the cooler, i need to really study this mobo because it's crashing too quickly for it to be temp related..... plus PC passed the cpu test, according to prime..... so i'll have to research far more

Mal X · 19 May 2012 at 11:31

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/3533/coretempscrn.png
ok this is what it is right now

psychodil · 19 May 2012 at 12:04

Wow good temps for that speed, I reckon you could get some more out of it. Will be fine up till at least 70 degrees core temp, so keep upping the core a little and shoot for more if you can tolerate the noise.

Mal X · 19 May 2012 at 14:18

it's now up to 57 degress on max prime and with MSI running full boot, that's the highest core temp so far, card is cool too.... i'll upload a few piccies soon

Mal X · 19 May 2012 at 14:34

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg406/scaled.php?server=406&filename=11433773.jpg&res=landing

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg171/scaled.php?server=171&filename=pc2pc.jpg&res=landing

she's got an extra fan on the outside of the case under the card, and this sucks cold air directly out the back.... under the card it's draughty and freezing cold, same on the cpu too, i cant feel any warmth on the cooler compared to my old rig.

i moved the intake fans closer to the mobo late last week, the 120mm fan is only two inches away from the card and the one above about 7'' from the cooler..

but i need to research OCing this mobo much more

Mal X · 19 May 2012 at 14:55

ok the card just did:-

1.3v..... 1260 core........1850 mem.... core temp is 66 degrees on auto fan (which i think was also about 60%), with everything running on MSI afterburner and Prime.....

coil whine was the loudest so far, but she was still ok, even so, i'll now back it off to 1.25 because this seems OC seems a bit too high