Sigh, somethings broken, look at my graphics score and look at the clocks on the card 
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4106273
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4106273
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**Official 3D Mark 11 scores**
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Soldato
The 7970 is just not very strong 
On a serious note, tried rebooting?
Tempted to flash this new BIOS that's going around and see if I can get over 12k graphics score with this Windforce. It's a really nice clocker, identical levels of performance to my already decently overclocked reference 680.
On a serious note, tried rebooting?
Tempted to flash this new BIOS that's going around and see if I can get over 12k graphics score with this Windforce. It's a really nice clocker, identical levels of performance to my already decently overclocked reference 680.
Soldato
Soldato
I was gona say reboot.. had a few crashes myself and on the next run it just aint the same until i reboot.
Soldato
Have you tried Heaven 3.0 bench lately Mr Rusty?
No because it was coded by people who are obviously your way inclined
Tried a 3DMark11 Run lately Mr. Beast?
Well reboot didn't do anything, I'm puzzled. If anything rebooting has dropped my score even further http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4106343
Either clocks are too high or the drivers are screwing me over (12.7).
Either clocks are too high or the drivers are screwing me over (12.7).
Soldato
Display Scaling Mode on centred or stretched? in 3DMark 11?
It might be throttling although be surprised if your temps are OK?
It might be throttling although be surprised if your temps are OK?
temps are sitting around 57/45/45 over core/mem/vrm
Display mode is centered.
My score actually improved going to stock: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4106398
Display mode is centered.
My score actually improved going to stock: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4106398
Soldato
Change it to stretched - it did something weird to my score on that mode.
It was like triple buffering was enabled.
Frame rates would settle on a multiple of 30 only. As soon as it went under 120 say it would drop to 90.
It was like triple buffering was enabled.
Frame rates would settle on a multiple of 30 only. As soon as it went under 120 say it would drop to 90.
Strange, a run at 1250/1700 has given me the right scores: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4106432
Nearly 1500 marks of difference on the GPU - that was stretched, I'll try 1290/1800 in stretch too though I'm wondering if the card doesn't like those clocks and is throttling down without crashing. We will soon find out
Edit: Stretch mode seems to have sorted it, how odd, 1290/1800 now pulling in a GPU score of 10848
Nearly 1500 marks of difference on the GPU - that was stretched, I'll try 1290/1800 in stretch too though I'm wondering if the card doesn't like those clocks and is throttling down without crashing. We will soon find out
Edit: Stretch mode seems to have sorted it, how odd, 1290/1800 now pulling in a GPU score of 10848
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OcUK Staff
Is the GPU running gen3 16x sometimes its stuck at 1.1 use GPU-z to check this.
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Just use 100% fan for benchingShould be safe enough with 1.65v for benching, just make sure to have an aggressive custom fan curve
Its not stuck at 1.1 (going by gpuz render test) but it is only working at 2.0.
Cooler dependent, if you're going 100% on a ref 7970 cooler then get some ear protection
Around 80% on my lightning is enough to keep everything under 60c.
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Its not stuck at 1.1 (going by gpuz render test) but it is only working at 2.0.
Cooler dependent, if you're going 100% on a ref 7970 cooler then get some ear protection
Around 80% on my lightning is enough to keep everything under 60c.
It's only benching if your worried about fan noise for benching perhaps its not for you.
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Its not stuck at 1.1 (going by gpuz render test) but it is only working at 2.0.
Cooler dependent, if you're going 100% on a ref 7970 cooler then get some ear protection
Around 80% on my lightning is enough to keep everything under 60c.
This is a problem I am having currently on the cold. I am searching for a bios to sort this now.
Sorted it, PCIE was set to legacy, set it to EFI and it now bumps up to 3.0
I don't mind the fan noise, just a caution that the 7970 ref's at 100% are pretty damn loud. Besides, hopefully the majority of fan noise will be gone from my machine as of next weekend
I don't mind the fan noise, just a caution that the 7970 ref's at 100% are pretty damn loud. Besides, hopefully the majority of fan noise will be gone from my machine as of next weekend
OcUK Staff
Sorted it, PCIE was set to legacy, set it to EFI and it now bumps up to 3.0
I don't mind the fan noise, just a caution that the 7970 ref's at 100% are pretty damn loud. Besides, hopefully the majority of fan noise will be gone from my machine as of next weekend
Its the cold causing my problem for sure. Sadly the AMD reference cold slow bios is not flashing to the card correctly.