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7970 might be dead?

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Hi all,

Noticed a bit of performance drop recently in games and so did a bit of investigation. Looks like my second 7970 doesn't seem to respond, although i can enable crossfore and its doesnt crash my pc. It shows up in gpuz but has no clock data etc. It appears in msi afterburner but sticks at 0% gpu usage and doesnt move. Ran these tests on unigine heaven and a couple of games. Im currently running a fully watercooled rig so its a little difficult for me just to just pull a gpu out and test it.

Im a little puzzled as i expected to have a crash or no boot if one of the GPUs was faulty.

Strangely, if i run the render test in GPUZ then i get some numbers for clock speed ets but for some reason, while viewing that particular gpu (just that one) in gpuz, the software becomes amazingly laggy and unresponsive so something isnt right.

Any suggestions?
 
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