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hey guys if i hold out on redeeming the gold reward ticket would new games ie battlefield become available or do i only get the choice of what is available now(not sure what that is)
 
Ok my card overclocked to 1100/1500 at 1.206v:
FPS: 33.7
Score: 1412
Min FPS: 19.0
Max Fps 67.9

before that I was testing 1075/1250 at 1.7v
FPS:38.2
Score 1599
Min FPS: 22.6
Max FPS: 73.0

Any ideas of why the 1100/1500 OC have a drastically lower score than the 1075/1250 one in Valley Benchmark? Also what is power limit %, do I need to touch it when over-clocking?

Update: 1st score is with 20% powerlimit.
 
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Oh yeah ok, will update. edit: score is 1360. So what does the power limit % do?
Also max score I can get so far is 1412 at valley benchmark for 1100/1500. Is it good?
 
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Temp.sgk said:
Any ideas of why the 1100/1500 OC have a drastically lower score than the 1075/1250 one in Valley Benchmark? Also what is power limit %, do I need to touch it when over-clocking?

Update: 1st score is with 20% powerlimit.
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Power Limit adds slightly more power to the card, good description here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950/9

Your scores are different as your gpu is probably showing gpu spiking:

tommybhoy said:
+20% Power Control/Limit GPU Spiking:

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+30% Power Control/Limit No SPiking:


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It gets worse the higher you clock the card even with 20% Power Limit applied, either flash the bios to remove the 'boost'(it's a shocker tbph) and increase PL, or if you are uncomfortable with flashing the card, then the other way is to modify the reg entryAMD - How to Change The Power Control/Limit from +20% to +50%(Software GPU Spike Fix)
 so that you can apply up to 50% Power Limit(but 30%-35% usually does the trick).

Bios flashing is less complicated imo and it's a one time shot, the software mod needs done each new driver install.
 
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I've been fiddling around with the bios editor myself. I've created myself a really low voltage bios, with a silent fan profile. Designed to run at stock clocks only 925/1250 and work with ULPS ON without throttling. The stock voltage is 1.050 down from stock of 1.25v. I can actually run my cards a bit lower than that but thought a little bit extra will be better. If your card is Asic rating 70% or lower then it should work ok with your card. If anyone is interested in trying it then let me know and ill upload it.

If you want to overclock this is not the bios for you. But it will turn your HIS 7950 Ice-Q into a silent cool card at stock settings. If it wasn't enough already. :p
 
Skeletor said:
hey guys if i hold out on redeeming the gold reward ticket would new games ie battlefield become available or do i only get the choice of what is available now(not sure what that is)
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You can wait and see if better games come on, be aware this offer expires on 31\12\13, also be aware that you must take all three games at the same time, you will not be able to pick one now and return later. These conditions are listed at the bottom of the page. Click here.
 
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LtMatt said:
I've been fiddling around with the bios editor myself. I've created myself a really low voltage bios, with a silent fan profile. Designed to run at stock clocks only 925/1250 and work with ULPS ON without throttling. The stock voltage is 1.050 down from stock of 1.25v. I can actually run my cards a bit lower than that but thought a little bit extra will be better. If your card is Asic rating 70% or lower then it should work ok with your card. If anyone is interested in trying it then let me know and ill upload it.

If you want to overclock this is not the bios for you. But it will turn your HIS 7950 Ice-Q into a silent cool card at stock settings. If it wasn't enough already. :p
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Curious, what's your power consumption like running them with that mod bios, on full load say Crysis 3 etc, or some other power hog game?
 
Nelly said:
Curious, what's your power consumption like running them with that mod bios, on full load say Crysis 3 etc, or some other power hog game?
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I'm not sure about the stock bios/voltage of 1.25v, but running the specs in my sig and playing sleeping dogs extreme i can pull 650-700Watt. Using the clocks i listed earlier with voltage decreased to minimum levels through extensive testing i pull 350-400W worst case scenario.

EDIT

Actually forgot i changed my sig.

i7 2700k 4.8 ghz H100i 2x Gentle Typhoon 1850
8Gb Samsung Green Ram 2133 Mhz 9-10-10-21-1T
2x HIS 7950 3072MB 1125/1500 2x Ice-Q Cooler

CPU @1.35v
GPU's @1.2v
 
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I'm debating swapping my 3570k for a 3770k now, but does hyperthreading really make that much of a difference? There are a few games that just pound my cpu (bf4 and project CARS to name 2) and are severely limiting my cards, but if the difference is only marginal then £200 is a fair chunk of change for me to drop. Are there any bench comparisons out there?
 
Hey guys,
sorry but I'm ripping my hair out at the minute over this card. Any idea's would b appreciated.

I have upgraded my mobo, RAM, cpu, psu and HDD; i5 3670K, 8GB Patriot 1600HMz, Samsung 840 EVO 256GB, Corsair CX750 PSU and Gigabyte H87-HD3. Setting this up on a fresh copy of Windows 7 I find that I cannot get any game to play for mor than a few seconds before it artefacts and crashes. I can CTRL+ALT+DEL and kill the application and sometimes it will state that the display driver stopped responding but has recovered.

I have tried:
  • Changing the clock speed to default values;
  • Using the backup BIOS on switch number 2;
  • Flashing the BIOS on switch 1 from the old Matt.rom (1000/1400) to use the latest Matt.rom (stock @ .90 idle) from the first page of the thread;
  • Installed the latest 13.10 beta 2 version of the AMD driver;
  • Installed 13.9 after using the AMD driver removal tool from the website;
...though the same problem still occurs.

This is a shame because I was running this card fine before at 1250 core, 1600 memory and 1.175V, without touching the powerlimit+%.

Thanks, Dan.
 
I have been running my card at 1100/1400 +20 using AMD Overdrive, decided to install the latest Afterburner and use the registry hack to increase the power %, but after a reboot, both AMD Overdrive and Afterburner refused to allow me to overclock, the sliders only showed the default clocks or lower, so I had to undo the reg hack, uninstall both the AMD drivers and Afterburner, reboot and then reinstall both, so I am back to 1100/1400 +20.

AMD Overdrive lets me set my clocks to a max of 1200/1500 +20, but after a few minutes running COD2 the game hangs for a minute, then carries on, but I can see from the event logs that the driver has crashed and restored, so im guessing the power need increasing to hold those clocks so im back to 1100/1400 +20 for the time being till I get the time/nerve to flash the bios...

I do notice though that at 1100/1400 +20, my GPU usage stays solid at 1100 core, no sign of the throttle spike mentioned in the OP, but at 1200/1500 +20 I was seeing spikes, well more drops, it would sometimes go from 1200 down to about 1141 on the core according to Afterburner.
 
@Jarrastafari it sounds like your card is faulty. Have you updated your motherboard BIOS to the latest version, or tried the card in a second system?

Personally I would set up an RMA, but try the above first if possible.

@UKDTweak why don't you flash the custom BIOS in the OP? It's the best and most controllable way to overclock this card. Also with an overclock such as 1200 core you about 25 - 30% power limit to peg the card at max speed.
 
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