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AMD - How To Overclock The Official Way Using Afterburner + Step By Step Overclocking Guide + Comple
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I flashed the Vapor X to 7970 Bios 1100 - 1450 (Sapphire)
Then I OCed to 1100 -1600 stable at 1.056 Volts
Unigine *8 *16 Extreme Tess
1224 (48.6 av - 26.1 low - 119.9 high)
An Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB @ 1006 - 6008 scores 46.6 @ 1080 same settings (I presume @ stock).
3D Mark
GRAPHICS SCORE
8626
Not too bad... and total stable without a voltage increase.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/2012-vga-gpgpu/01-3DMark11-B-Performance,2932.html
The Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 Toxic 6GB Lethal Boost is rated at 8421 (I guess its not clocked!!!). I'm happy with the card now.
It really needs the new bios.
It runs @ 76 degrees under load.
I'll be buying a waterblock for it before I volt it up.
Then I OCed to 1100 -1600 stable at 1.056 Volts
Unigine *8 *16 Extreme Tess
1224 (48.6 av - 26.1 low - 119.9 high)
An Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 2GB @ 1006 - 6008 scores 46.6 @ 1080 same settings (I presume @ stock).
3D Mark
GRAPHICS SCORE
8626
Not too bad... and total stable without a voltage increase.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/2012-vga-gpgpu/01-3DMark11-B-Performance,2932.html
The Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 Toxic 6GB Lethal Boost is rated at 8421 (I guess its not clocked!!!). I'm happy with the card now.
It really needs the new bios.
It runs @ 76 degrees under load.
I'll be buying a waterblock for it before I volt it up.
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Can you put up a link to that bios? Is it fairly straightforward to flash the bios? Not attempted that before. Sounds worth it for a stable 1100/1600 oc
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I have a problem, this has happened twice now,
When ever I set an overclock and go into a game, after a while the screen goes black and my voltage in MSI afterburner resets back to stock. Whats the reason for this? unstable?
When ever I set an overclock and go into a game, after a while the screen goes black and my voltage in MSI afterburner resets back to stock. Whats the reason for this? unstable?
flashed mine to the 7970 bios as DRHF mentioned.
Much more stable overclocks
What overclocks do you get off stock voltage? I'd love to get over 1100 on the GPU, but it doesn't like to go higher.
Oh, I also found out that the Vapor X cooler isn't very good... @ 1.100 volts (1.8x in hwInfo 64) it registers 81 Degrees under load...
I really think it could reach 1300 easy with a proper cooler.
I nearly forgot.
Make sure you use trixx not Afterburner for the overclock. I had a strange error yesterday with afterburner (I only use it for video recording), Trixx and CCC. Trixx will automatically over-ride CCC but afterburner doesn't for some reason since I switched the Bios.
It may just be an eccentricity on my machine though.
Make sure you use trixx not Afterburner for the overclock. I had a strange error yesterday with afterburner (I only use it for video recording), Trixx and CCC. Trixx will automatically over-ride CCC but afterburner doesn't for some reason since I switched the Bios.
It may just be an eccentricity on my machine though.
I got up to the same as you 1100/1600 on 1.056
Raised voltage to 1.118 and was able to push the core clock to 1150 but there was a few artifacts here and there. Temp never went over 69 though running unigine. Got bored of watching unigine and had to sleep in the end though so experiments ended there.
Been using Trixx anyway, wasnt having as much success with afterburner (not saving profiles etc)
Updated the first post, added the latest drivers and caps links.
Caporegime
Follow the guide i wrote in the first post chris to unlock the clock limits.