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low 60Cs I normally get if I've left a game in the in game menu or something

ie when the card is not working hard but still stuck in 3D clock speeds and volts, rather than the lower voltage and clocks for 2D windows desktop use

have you anything in background running to keep it in 3D clock speeds acciddently ?

alternatively - if yo've used Afterburner - make sure force constant voltage is not enabled
 
No, force constant voltage isn't in use. I have been testing a lot of games in the 48 hours I've owned this so perhaps you're right. It might just take a lot longer than my 4870X2 took to cool down.

How is your situation btw? I have read so many posts from various people so I may have lost track a bit. Is it your psu that you think is the problem, or am I thinking of someone else?
 
After noticing some mild artifacting on my card playing metro and in heaven i finally found a major problem. I fired up Bad Company 2 earlier today and it completely crashes after about 5-10 mins of play every time. Windows gives me some error like "the display drive has stopped working".

Not sure why but that game seems to push my temps way up into the 90's which is odd as that's much higher then even OCCT was getting.

The card is going right back to gigabyte this week. Fingers crossed for that 580 :D
 
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aZz thats similar artefacting to that I get in Furmark at stock volts

in my case I'm thinking it may be the PSU not giving a decent enough 12V input into the card

YMMV
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I'm gonna order a PSU tomorrow as I'll need it for my new build anyway so I'll run the card directly off that when it comes. I'll know for sure then.

It's weird though as last night it was artifacting like crazy in Heaven, flashes everywhere, but today it's just the odd one here and there. Kombustor always shows errors though.
 
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thats siilar with mine Azz - I do wonder if its as whatever the quality of the 12V is off my PSU - perhaps its right on borderline and sometimes its just good enough and other times dips under that the card requires

not sure - interested in your findingss with new PSSU though
 
AzZ said:
Heres a video of Heaven:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA4sunxWONs

Also what do you think an acceptable voltage is for these cards considering that they are 'Cherry picked' for a better overclock. I see some people have had there stock volts at 1038mV and some at 1063mV and some as low as 1025mV.
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HOLY ****!
Certainly an RMA. my stock volts were 1025 IIRC.
Have you taken it back to stock clocks to check if it is a faulty OC?
 
hehe

I'm currently undervolting and underclocking mine - for now until I sort out the PSU issues I have

so 720/1925 on memory but at 1.025V (stock is 1.038V) - after 10 minutes of OCCT - no artefacts and temp only creeped up to 82C - not too bad at all really

is it genuinely that much slower in games vs SOC speeds ? probably not
 
So, what do you guys think of this card?, I can't decide between this and a 580gtx. Don't think I can justify spending and extra 200 notes, for not that much performance gain.
 
480gtx SOC basically = 580 (very close to it).


Well, after applying auto fan to bring the temps down earlier, the temperature did stay down (back around the high 30's up to mid to high 40's), which is what it was doing to begin with, so that's good news. After a few hours break I have just fired the PC up and thankfully the temps are once again stable. I'm just wondering if it had something to do with Steam saying there was something running in the background. Would make sense.
 
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ste2005 said:
Cheers just what my credit card wanted to hear:D

What's the noise level like?
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At idle I can barely hear it with the fan set to 30% (idle noise being most important for me). At load it is far less audible than my previous card (4870X2), though once you get to around 55 - 60% it does start to get louder. I use earphones at the moment, so this is a non issue. Even if I didn't I don't think it would bother me much at all. They have done a great job with the cooling and noise apect of the design. Even the power leakage is supposedly lower, though I don't know by how much. I find ATI's cards have a bassier, rasping tone to the noise, nVidia's, usually a higher pitched one.
 
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Running my normal special edition at the top above a stock cooled asus it got to 105 degrees so fast playing metro 2033 so I moved this one to the bottom and the stock one to the top and LOL! the stock one doesn't go past 86 degrees
 
make sense as the fans blow onto the heatsinks no ? so with SE above the stock one - it would have been sucking in hot air to try and use to "cool" the card

not good :)

otherway round like you have it now sounds far better :)
 
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