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My card throttled as low as 625Mhz on stock settings with nothing tweaked in HiS iTurbo, this was part of the problem I've no idea why the card would down clock/throttle that low when it's not vsync capped and the card is at 99/100%.

It's been sent back today anyway, so will see what the outcome is. Certainly wasn't playing right.
 
If you mean regarding power limit increase then obviously that removed the throttling, but that's what caused my card to hit 87 Celsius and crash, believe me I tried everything.

I know these boost cards throttle down to 850mhz, but 600 odd MHz?! That's not normal.
 
Hello

Any way to recover the original bios for slot 1? I've had a nightmare with this so far.
Flashed to the 1000/1400 and all was good. Benchmarks spot on, no throttling everything great. Ran sleeping dogs for 20 mins then a graphic crash. It somehow completely destroyed my settings so had to uninstall drivers etc. Tried again with a higher voltage, but it blue screened on benhmark screen in sleeping dogs.
I then saw the new stock bios. Flashed that and ran some benchmarks, again it was good until I started playing, then crash! Again I've had to uninstall the games as it seems to corrupt them.
I'm now on backup bios, but think I'll stick with them.
 
It's an xclio greatpower 650w.
It runs all benchmarks fine, no spiking. Sleeping dogs seems to cause all my problems. It's a graphics crash as it corrupts my browser etc once the game closes. I'd always assume that meant driver issue?
 
SD is very demanding-it's pulling a lot of power from your psu(but I don't have a clue if it's any good or not), but SD's generally been running well for a while now going by my own experience and reading the AMD driver thread, it may well still be a driver issue, but it may be a specific system compatibility issue causing a conflict with some other software/hardware in your rig.

Try sending a report into AMD:

Click To Report AMD Driver Issues
 
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Hello again.

Ok, I think I know what's wrong, but just need confirmation.
I've logged GPUz in the background and started skyrim.
My idle VDDC Current (A) is 4.5. It goes as high as 126.8!!!! at random times
My VDDC Current In (A) idles at 0.3 with a few random 15.8's thrown in.
The card voltage also jumped to 1.430

I've done some reading as I'm not sure what these readings are, but I'm pretty sure I need to unplug my power supply, get it as far away from my comp as possible and get a new one.

Or am I reading something completely incorrectly?
 
JJimmyJ said:
Hello again.

Ok, I think I know what's wrong, but just need confirmation.
I've logged GPUz in the background and started skyrim.
My idle VDDC Current (A) is 4.5. It goes as high as 126.8!!!! at random times
My VDDC Current In (A) idles at 0.3 with a few random 15.8's thrown in.
The card voltage also jumped to 1.430

I've done some reading as I'm not sure what these readings are, but I'm pretty sure I need to unplug my power supply, get it as far away from my comp as possible and get a new one.

Or am I reading something completely incorrectly?
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Are you currently using the stock bios (pos 2)? If so, the card does sound faulty but maybe worth trying the following:-
i). Test within another PC if possible.
ii). Overvolt the GPU sligtly by using MSI Afterburner or similar. If stock volts are 1.25, try 1.275 etc. If this fixes your problem you are free to RMA the card as it is proven to not work at stock settings/voltage.
iii). Before RMA'ing make sure you have stock bios on both switches.
 
555BUK said:
Are you currently using the stock bios (pos 2)? If so, the card does sound faulty but maybe worth trying the following:-
i). Test within another PC if possible.
ii). Overvolt the GPU sligtly by using MSI Afterburner or similar. If stock volts are 1.25, try 1.275 etc. If this fixes your problem you are free to RMA the card as it is proven to not work at stock settings/voltage.
iii). Before RMA'ing make sure you have stock bios on both switches.
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Hi 555BUK

Yes I'm back at stock on switch 2.
So, it may not be my power supply? I'm really non-plussed on all those readings as most people seem to get maybe 85 on full load rather than jumps to 126.
I have no other PC to try it in unfortunately.
I'm a bit scared to throw more voltage at it as I don't want to do it permanent damage if in fact it is my PSU.

Also, the ASIC is 65% so I'd assume this is a decent card?
I'm contemplating a fresh install to see if it's maybe a driver conflict. Had all srots of issues swapping from my 6850 where it seemed to remember the settings after numerous driver wipes.
 
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JJimmyJ said:
Hi 555BUK

Yes I'm back at stock on switch 2.
So, it may not be my power supply? I'm really non-plussed on all those readings as most people seem to get maybe 85 on full load rather than jumps to 126.
I have no other PC to try it in unfortunately.
I'm a bit scared to throw more voltage at it as I don't want to do it permanent damage if in fact it is my PSU.

Also, the ASIC is 65% so I'd assume this is a decent card?
I'm contemplating a fresh install to see if it's maybe a driver conflict. Had all srots of issues swapping from my 6850 where it seemed to remember the settings after numerous driver wipes.
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The surest way to prove whether the card is faulty is to test within another system. Your PSU will not cause the card to overvolt, will not cause high temps, and will not cause voltage fluctuations. I think your PSU is fine.

If you have no other means to test, I suggest you RMA the card. Assuming that you have had the card for less than 10 days, you are within your rights to return the card and reqiest a full refund under Distance Selling Regulations. You may have to pay return postage, but it will be worth it for peace of mind.
 
Does changing the voltage in iturbo change the maximum boost voltage and prevent it from going to 1.250, or is it simply changing the default threshold and the card will still boost to 1.250 which is unavoidable without a Bios flash?
 
Just checked the RMA details of my card and it says 'The item's processing finished', Outcome: Refunded. So assume that means my card was faulty after all, apart from it looks like I won't be sent a replacement! :(

If that is the case, I need to decide if I should order another HiS card or look at something else! :confused:
 
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