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AMD "Never Settle" 12.11 Driver - benchmarks

The VRM's are rated for 115c or something like that, 127c is concerning as i have never seem my VRM's at 70c.

Is that a constant temperature or some sort of spike?


It was a spike during heaven...

I then played bf3 for about an hour and after that it showed max vrm temps of 255 degrees.. that can't be right, so I'm wondering if the measurements are accurate... I'm using the latest afterburner and gpu-z
 
Nice tommy, 1200 core is more than overkill these days tbh, welcome to the club. :cool:

You have a reference card right? What are your temps like? What volts did you need on the memory to reach that?

I can do 1200 core @ 1.161 volts now with these drivers. (stock 1.112)

[email protected](1.175), [email protected], I imagine I could back off on core voltage, but as I won't run it at that speed anyway I don't need to fine tune, peace of mind that it can hit those clocks will suffice.:D

1100 probably will be enough for me(if indeed a title needs it, most are fine on stock clocks for me), after more tinkering, I'll find out where to leave my memory clocks.

It was the vrm temps that was holding it back, there must be a hot spot in my case, as I removed the 9800gt and left the panel off and the vrm temps came down by about 25c.

I have ran it before without the 9800 in, but the vrms were still as high with it installed, so it must be down to a hotspot being negated with the panel off.

If it was under water,no doubt it would stretch it's legs even further.

BF3 is absolutely flying now, between the clocks(more so the memory) and the performance released by AMD, my mins have went up at least 10fps.

Finally, I'm getting to about the same place I was with my 6950>70's.:D
 
[email protected](1.175), [email protected], I imagine I could back off on core voltage, but as I won't run it at that speed anyway I don't need to fine tune, peace of mind that it can hit those clocks will suffice.:D

1100 probably will be enough for me(if indeed a title needs it, most are fine on stock clocks for me), after more tinkering, I'll find out where to leave my memory clocks.

It was the vrm temps that was holding it back, there must be a hot spot in my case, as I removed the 9800gt and left the panel off and the vrm temps came down by about 25c.

I have ran it before without the 9800 in, but the vrms were still as high with it installed, so it must be down to a hotspot being negated with the panel off.

If it was under water,no doubt it would stretch it's legs even further.

BF3 is absolutely flying now, between the clocks(more so the memory) and the performance released by AMD, my mins have went up at least 10fps.

Finally, I'm getting to about the same place I was with my 6950>70's.:D

My card really can't handle more than 1.2 unless i put the fan up stupid loud, so its surprising to see you up at such a high voltage. Maybe as yours has a higher stock voltage it handles heat better or something.
 
I have a question about memory voltage I have never touched it and I was sure by giving the core more voltage I could increase memory!
My card stock voltage is 1174mv Gigabyte 7970 stock 1000mhz/1375mhz.
The max I can get on that voltage is 1180 MHz core forgot how much on memory, my card max on Heaven bench gets 64c, but what do you class as stable?
I mean some people run it a couple of times where I have sometimes let it loop and on the 8th run it has crashed!
Also what is a safe voltage for memory and what increments does it go up in ?
I know core seems to go up in 000.6, also how do I see memory temp?
Thanks for any answers
 
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Just out of curiosity I run my HIS 7850 at 1200/1300 @ 1.165. I tried bumping the memory to 1375 and it crashed within a few minutes in BF3, I bumped the voltage to 1.185 and crashed almost straight away again. At this point I just put it back to 1300.

I'm not an expert OC'er but was aware that my 1200/1300 @ 1.165 was a good result esp voltage wise. Do I need to be looking at a voltage of 1.2+ to get anymore out of the memory?

Cheers.
 
I have a question about memory voltage I have never touched it and I was sure by giving the core more voltage I could increase memory!
My card stock voltage is 1174mv Gigabyte 7970 stock 1000mhz/1375mhz.
The max I can get on that voltage is 1180 MHz core forgot how much on memory, my card max on Heaven bench gets 64c, but what do you class as stable?
I mean some people run it a couple of times where I have sometimes let it loop and on the 8th run it has crashed!
Also what is a safe voltage for memory and what increments does it go up in ?
I know core seems to go up in 000.6, also how do I see memory temp?
Thanks for any answers

Do not increase the memory voltage from stock unless, you want to kill your card.
 
Do not increase the memory voltage from stock unless, you want to kill your card.

ok just wondered why other people do it mine goes from 1600 - 1700
Another question is i unlocked afterburner which i have done plenty of time before to go above the min 1200/1600 but this time the sliders have reset to 0 and i can't apply any overclocks!
Any idea? i made sure in CCC grphics overdrive isn't checked.
Thanks
 
ok just wondered why other people do it mine goes from 1600 - 1700
Another question is i unlocked afterburner which i have done plenty of time before to go above the min 1200/1600 but this time the sliders have reset to 0 and i can't apply any overclocks!
Any idea? i made sure in CCC grphics overdrive isn't checked.
Thanks

When you hit apply do they go back to 0?

If so you are missing a couple of dll files...but i cant remember what they were....let me do a search.

Edit...try this,

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=359671
 
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When you hit apply do they go back to 0?

If so you are missing a couple of dll files...but i cant remember what they were....let me do a search.
Well done i knew there was something i had to do before that i done this time your right theres 2 dlls missing.
Thanks
 
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Just out of curiosity I run my HIS 7850 at 1200/1300 @ 1.165. I tried bumping the memory to 1375 and it crashed within a few minutes in BF3, I bumped the voltage to 1.185 and crashed almost straight away again. At this point I just put it back to 1300.

I'm not an expert OC'er but was aware that my 1200/1300 @ 1.165 was a good result esp voltage wise. Do I need to be looking at a voltage of 1.2+ to get anymore out of the memory?

Cheers.

Sounds like exceeded board power-line limits. did you add the 20% to it?

7850's only have one 6 pin power line, that limits the amount of power they can draw, if it asks for more than it can get it will just crash, turning the volts up even more will just make that worse as in doing so your just telling it to ask for even more power.

If you turn your GPU core down to 1150 you might get 1400 on the memory.
 
I don't use afterburner to clock at all, in short is rubbish for ATI cards, I use Trixx and use afterburner to monitor the card via the G19 app.
 
I don't use afterburner to clock at all, in short is rubbish for ATI cards, I use Trixx and use afterburner to monitor the card via the G19 app.

I found Trixx very easy to use but AB seems not to be much of an issue on the 5xxx cards as i have not had to disable ULPS or mess around with missing dll files.
 
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If trixxx offered a decent overlay i might try it, but afterburner covers all my needs and more and apart from this idle clock bug (which im sure it has nothing to do with) ive never had any problems with it.
 
If trixxx offered a decent overlay i might try it, but afterburner covers all my needs and more and apart from this idle clock bug (which im sure it has nothing to do with) ive never had any problems with it.

Yeah Matt I just wan to try it, I ind afterburner more than sufficient , but as I was reminded yesterday when I unlocked afterburners max I still get that flicker on the desktop, I know you have a thread on a fix but I might see what Trixx does with 2d clocks.
Thanks
Yesterday played BF 3 at 1200/1650 1212mv hit 65c no problem, so may try higher with Trixx.
You seem to have lower voltage on your reference but this Gigabyte is 1174mv stock and max core I can get on that is 1170-1180 MHz.
 
Yeah Matt I just wan to try it, I ind afterburner more than sufficient , but as I was reminded yesterday when I unlocked afterburners max I still get that flicker on the desktop, I know you have a thread on a fix but I might see what Trixx does with 2d clocks.
Thanks
Yesterday played BF 3 at 1200/1650 1212mv hit 65c no problem, so may try higher with Trixx.

Yeah you get the flicker because you didn't follow my guide, with my guide there is no flicker as its using AMD's powerplay tables correctly.

Let me know how you get on with trixx. :)
 
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