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7970 Lightning, worth the premium?

Thats some high temps!

You seem to be one of the few that have a low stock voltage too, my card at stock is 1.175v.

You would appear to have allot of headroom for those clocks/voltages.

MSI CS isn't making much sense, they said to directly contact the European support, which directs me back to where I started :p.
 
Around 20C room temp, I'm using the 800D with a negative air pressure.

I have my NH-D14 in the wrong orientation but i only got hold of some isopropyl today so i need to switch that around as its preventing me from using my first card slot. And having the card in the 3rd slot on my R IV E places it right over the chipset fan.
 
At stock my card came at 1.049v(1049mV)

What have these few people with these low stock voltages got out of their cards?

Not sure what to do, i even have the reactor on the back unplugged for that supposedly 5C save
 
I'm using an 800D too, single intake and 4 exhausts. Have you tried ramping up the fan manually? 97c sounds very very hot, even with a reference cooler thats hot.

What are you using to monitor the card temps? and what temps are your memory/VRM at?
 
If your not using After Burner 2.2 could you please and then run some tests, as i think its what most of us use, and never seen temps that high on these cards which either means you have a problem or that these card can reach far higher temps than we are seeing. I hope its not the former for you but this is interesting.


*edit* which bios are you on??????
 
2 intake and 4 exhaust for me

My auto fan curve is pretty steep, and if I'm not on auto I'l put it on 100% for benching.

I'm using MSI AB 2.21 and HW monitor to monitor the temps.

Memory and VRAM temps peek at 50C

its the stock bios i switched back from the ln2 bios earlier
 
When i first got the card the other day i had mistakenly got it to 100C+ on the heaven bench at which point i panicked and thought i'd surely busted my card yet when i'd adjusted everything back to 1175/1600 @ 1.15v it worked fine and i was reaching the same scores i was before i'd hit that temp

At that time i was using AMD Catalyst 12.x (9.00 June 12) Unofficial BETA along side AB but i'd recently changed back to 12.4 to see if there were any increases or decreases in certain areas. Going back to 12.4 made me drop 100+ on some 3dmark11 scores.

But when i tried to get back to 12.6 it wouldn't let me and said the drive INF file was missing. Anyways enough waffling
 
The displayport is driving me nuts tonight.

Power up > boot splash > windows > DP error > play game > reverts to 800x600 @ 75hz
Reboot
Power up > boot splash > black screen
Change MDP port
Power up > black screen (will only power screen on with the MDP port furthest from the DVI port)
Change USB port (on adaptor)
Power up > boot splash > in windows > play game > monitor powers down mid game due to 'no input device'

Seriously considering cutting my losses and just getting another monitor with native DP, this £74 adaptor so far isn't proving its worth in the slightest.
 
Its your motherboard.

I had exactly the same issues with my P8z68-v pro gen 3 and i have two native DP monitors.

Since switching to my x79 board the problem has not happened once.

The quickest fix for me was unplugging the MDP cable from the graphics card but i have two other screens so could log into windows on them then plug the cable back in.

Sometimes the machine wouldnt boot all screens would stay black and graphics card fans would spin at 100% when that happened turn off unplug MDP and would work again.

have not had a single problem since i switched to x79
 
Damnit, looks like an upgrade may be in order sooner rather than later in that case.

So unplugging > log in > plug back in and all should be well for now? I can log into windows blind so I shouldn't need another monitor for that.

I had just today talked my self out of moving to X79 too :p
 
that is what would cure it for me IF my other monitors worked and just the one on DP didn't.

if all monitors stayed black then it would be a power off boot up with it unplugged reboot try many things and it would randomly start working when it wanted. This was often accompanied with the graphics cards at 100% fan speed.

I have noticed that the MDP seems to output some power. I also found unplugging the power from my monitor helped.

But yeah switched away from my z68 and all has been fine since. I also had this issue on my old X58 chipset. Very strange how i dont get it now on this.
 
Not 100% sure but my card may have just died. Was installing 12.6 which finally worked then the screen started going all fuzzy so i just assumed it needed a restart, but i turn it on this morning and all the LED lights are on yet no display to my monitor.

Any recommendations?
 
Adapter pain :(

Is there going to be an Ivybridge-E chip? Or will Sandybridge-E remain the top end? Going to X79 to solve it seems rather drastic :p
 
Second hand, but from an ocuk staff member so should be good as new :)

Finally a change of color scheme away from that nasty Asus blue
 
I'm using the DVI-HDMI adapter until i can get my hands a proper monitor.

No post, nothing.

IVY-E was moved up to next year i believe and will have "112 Pci 4.0 lanes, Octo channel DDR5 and at least a 60mb cache on each core, with a half gig shared cache."
 
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