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** ALL HAIL THE NEW HEAVEN KING - ATI 7970 3GB!! (TRI-FIRE TESTED)**
- Thread starter Gibbo
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Well that surprises me to be honest, looking at reviews a single 7970 generally runs cooler and quieter than a single 480 whilst using less power and obviously being faster.
Generally my 5870 hits within a couple degrees of its max temp almost instantly when running a benchmark.
How in the hell am I trolling? I said it doesn't seem that hot for tri-fire.
72c was max under crossfire with fans at 20% which is silent and that was OC too under benchmarking, gaming will be slightly lower temp.
Soldato
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I get 13fps (Score 329) with my aging 3870 at default settings 
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Battlefield 3 Benchmarks would be nice as that's what I need 1 or 2 for at 2560x1600 resolution.
Impressive, what is the tool he is using to over clock card as be good to see how far they can go on stock cooler.
Impressive, what is the tool he is using to over clock card as be good to see how far they can go on stock cooler.
I'm not sure, but he has posted a 7970 Hot Wire Guide
http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1553
On one of the screenshots I can see AMD GPU Clock Tool v0.10.12.0
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Impressive, what is the tool he is using to over clock card as be good to see how far they can go on stock cooler.
he will be using cascade dice or ln2 with massive volt mods
Yeah i don't want to mod the cards, I just want to see what they can actually do with stock cooler.
Three in Tri-Fire all sandwiched together managed 1125MHz core and 6300MHz memory with zero issue on stock volts. I could not go higher as overdrive sliders were as far to right as they go. I think a single card will probable hit 1200-1300MHz core with stock cooler so be good to try the AMD clocking tool he is to bypass the limits imposed by overdrive.
I understand you, but from a technical angle min is min, same test for all setups !
If you're going to judge by the meaningless minimum frame rate then the former leader in the Heaven benchmark thread had a really crap setup.
Quad GTX 580, a score of 4406 and a minimum of 16.6FPS.
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Soldato
The point is that they should be ignored which was obvious with what Surveyor was saying.
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Run the benchmark on max setting ie max tessellation and max AA. 
Soldato
I think the benchmark runs before all the graphical data has been moved.
BFBC2 takes 2 times as long to load a map when in Quadfire than when i run Dual GPU.
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Soldato
You thinking about getting them Final8y, or are you happy with your dual 4Gb 5970's?
I think you've nailed it there.
That tiny fraction at the beginning of the benchmark, where the minumum FPS occurs while the data is loaded, can be ignored.
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I think AMD should have released these cards with higher stock clocks.
Soldato
Probably would have got less grief in the forums if they did.
Iirc, I saw an article claiming Keplar high end cores will come with 1GHz out the box.
Iirc, I saw an article claiming Keplar high end cores will come with 1GHz out the box.