Ive taken out one of my 7950 as it wasnt getting the results i wanted with them and because for the most part as of late i havent been playing demanding games much. I also wanted to improve the noise since whenever i was trolling along in BF3 with 2 7950 at stock clocks with an OCed 8350 to 4,4 the fan on my xfx 850w proseries xxx psu would be really loud and i mean REALLY loud.
Now playing BF3 MP(ultra preset@1080p) with 7950 crossfired i saw at most 60% in usage on each GPU and some of the minimums when in overview(where you select squad or loadout) was as low as 35fps, but when actually playing it would hover around 60fps to 100 depending on where i looked. SP is much better ofcourse.
Now to the meat of this topic, ive overclocked my remaining sapphire 7950 to 1100core 1450mem with a VDDC of 1100 using Trixx. Its stable so fare with no artifacts after 30 minutes of EVGA OC Scanner. Also 1 hour of BF3 MP has been very joyful having minimums of 50ish and average of around 70, same map, same amount of a players(64), same server as before. Crysis 3 also saw a nice bumb from 23 min to 33 min and average around 50-55 during the first mission, everything maxed @1080p no AA.
I want to pump more out of the card but it seems that ive come to some sort of block, atleast with the memory. Raising it to 1500 gives around 30 artifacts in a 5 minute period, not much but still shows some sort of instability. Any advice? should i settle or would you deem it worthwhile to continue the quest.
To recap my current results
1100mhz GPU Clock
1450mhz Memory Clock
1100 VDDC
20%(max) Powertune
84,5% Asic Quality
Now playing BF3 MP(ultra preset@1080p) with 7950 crossfired i saw at most 60% in usage on each GPU and some of the minimums when in overview(where you select squad or loadout) was as low as 35fps, but when actually playing it would hover around 60fps to 100 depending on where i looked. SP is much better ofcourse.
Now to the meat of this topic, ive overclocked my remaining sapphire 7950 to 1100core 1450mem with a VDDC of 1100 using Trixx. Its stable so fare with no artifacts after 30 minutes of EVGA OC Scanner. Also 1 hour of BF3 MP has been very joyful having minimums of 50ish and average of around 70, same map, same amount of a players(64), same server as before. Crysis 3 also saw a nice bumb from 23 min to 33 min and average around 50-55 during the first mission, everything maxed @1080p no AA.
I want to pump more out of the card but it seems that ive come to some sort of block, atleast with the memory. Raising it to 1500 gives around 30 artifacts in a 5 minute period, not much but still shows some sort of instability. Any advice? should i settle or would you deem it worthwhile to continue the quest.
To recap my current results
1100mhz GPU Clock
1450mhz Memory Clock
1100 VDDC
20%(max) Powertune
84,5% Asic Quality