ok, so i got new motherboard, CPU and ram on Friday and all was working well come Saturday once i had installed windows updates, driver updates all the fun stuff.
I have two HIS HD 7950 IceQ Boost cards running in xfire, both cards were working fine on my old board. I have been monitoring the cards using MSI afterburner with the settings mentioned in this thread by AMDMatt. Both GPUs were reporting that they were under load when gaming and benchmarking.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18544020
Now, Sunday morning i had to remove the cards to move some things in my case. Before this point and on my old board i was having issues where my monitor would black out for a second then come back so i decided that when i put the cards back in that i would swap them to see if that helps, i also changed the connector that was being used on the GPU to the monitor.
Since making the changes, GPU1 does not display any load when gaming, when idling its clocked lower than GPU2, and occasionally when gaming it will spike to 100% load then right back to 0%.
When idling GPU1 is at 300mhz and GPU2 is at 500mhz, this is also the same in CCC. When gaming they both go up to 1250mhz (i think, not at home but they go to there max) but as i said before GPU1 does not report any load while GPU2 reports 80% to 100% load in MSI afterburner.
Since having the issues i have tried swapping the cards back, reinstalling the drivers, changing the crossfire connector, re-seating both cards on the board and changing the power connectors. I have also ran both cards on there own and they both work identically in the first PCI lane. Also when benchmarking, the score is clearly higher with both GPUs in crossfire than it is when using a single card so GPU1 is doing something i believe.
Running out of ideas, has anyone had this issue before?
PC Specs:
i7 5820k @ 3.3GHz
MSI X99S Gaming 9 ACK
16GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance
2 X HIS HD 7950 IceQ Boost
Seasonic X-Series 1050w PSU
Windows 7 64-bit
Thanks
Edit: Just re read this, to make it clear, I am Having issues monitoring my cards i think in MSI afterburner, what other methods can i use to test to make sure my cards are ok or what can i try to fix the problem?
I will try and get some screenshots up when i get home.
I have two HIS HD 7950 IceQ Boost cards running in xfire, both cards were working fine on my old board. I have been monitoring the cards using MSI afterburner with the settings mentioned in this thread by AMDMatt. Both GPUs were reporting that they were under load when gaming and benchmarking.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18544020
Now, Sunday morning i had to remove the cards to move some things in my case. Before this point and on my old board i was having issues where my monitor would black out for a second then come back so i decided that when i put the cards back in that i would swap them to see if that helps, i also changed the connector that was being used on the GPU to the monitor.
Since making the changes, GPU1 does not display any load when gaming, when idling its clocked lower than GPU2, and occasionally when gaming it will spike to 100% load then right back to 0%.
When idling GPU1 is at 300mhz and GPU2 is at 500mhz, this is also the same in CCC. When gaming they both go up to 1250mhz (i think, not at home but they go to there max) but as i said before GPU1 does not report any load while GPU2 reports 80% to 100% load in MSI afterburner.
Since having the issues i have tried swapping the cards back, reinstalling the drivers, changing the crossfire connector, re-seating both cards on the board and changing the power connectors. I have also ran both cards on there own and they both work identically in the first PCI lane. Also when benchmarking, the score is clearly higher with both GPUs in crossfire than it is when using a single card so GPU1 is doing something i believe.
Running out of ideas, has anyone had this issue before?
PC Specs:
i7 5820k @ 3.3GHz
MSI X99S Gaming 9 ACK
16GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance
2 X HIS HD 7950 IceQ Boost
Seasonic X-Series 1050w PSU
Windows 7 64-bit
Thanks
Edit: Just re read this, to make it clear, I am Having issues monitoring my cards i think in MSI afterburner, what other methods can i use to test to make sure my cards are ok or what can i try to fix the problem?
I will try and get some screenshots up when i get home.
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