Eh?!

[gcaster]

I'm running a 6950 unlocked to a 6970 on a watercooling block and have delved into the world of overclocking it this evening.
Before overclocking (running at 880/1375MHz) my GPU sat at 52C while running Furmark. It's now running at 980MHz Core Clck and 1450Mhz Mem Clck, max temp 50C.
Shame it crashes at 990MHz core with stock 6970 volts or I'd keep going until I hit load temps of ~40C.

(Bit of a random post but thought I'd share the discovery, time to up the volts!)

 

[gcaster]

For pics click the 'My Rig' in my sig.
Screenshots on HWBOT.

 

[gcaster]

Here's the latest screenshot, managed to hit the 1GHz Core Clock with relatively low heat:

I still can't get over how bad the stock coolers on these cards are!

EDIT: Temps hit 50C max again but FurMark froze up after about 40mins. I'm not willing to go over 1.2V with this card so for a stable clock I'm going to have to lower the core clock and find it's limit.

 

[gcaster]

Ha no, I wish.
This is watercooled, says so in the first post.

 

[gcaster]

Yeah I can't complain.
Just managed a Vantage run at 998/1520 with 1.2V which has given me a pretty good score.
I'd love to see what voltage the top guys are using on these cards.