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*** Official 7950 Ice-Q Owners Club***

OK Im lost now.

I ran each card in each PCI-e slot, and each bios switch. Both cards in ran in slot 2 with both Bios positions. Passed Heaven no problems.

Both cards failled in the top slot in each bios postions.

So there I though my boad has developed a fault.

So I though 1 last thing to try. My GTX 670, I uninstall everything AMD (inc driver fusion).

Pluged the GTX 670 in, downloaded the drivers. It has just passed 2 runs of Heaven.

So what is wrong, cant be the board as the GTX works in the top slot. Cant be the 7950s as they work in the middle slot.

What now.
 
just installed my ice q 7950 along side my wf 7950. Disabled ulps and got them both at default but strangely enough im getting a bit of sluttering in wow :/

oops sorted it now with a few setting adjusments lol :)
 
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Clairvoyant said:
What now.
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I would try a different Mainboard BIOS.


Any particular reason you are using the F12j Beta BIOS?


Try an older BIOS, preferably an Official BIOS or at least a Gigabyte Beta BIOS.


My understanding is that the F12j is not a Gigabyte Beta BIOS.


Check your PCIe settings from the Mainboard BIOS.



Otherwise, maybe just run the 7950 stock BIOS?


Originally Posted by [B said:
stasio[/b] ]

Most stable BIOS's are F11,F12a and F12c (any with old GB LOGO screen).
Newest Beta's are still unfinished.
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TropicLightning said:
I would try a different Mainboard BIOS.


Any particular reason you are using the F12j Beta BIOS?


Try an older BIOS, preferably an Official BIOS or at least a Gigabyte Beta BIOS.


My understanding is that the F12j is not a Gigabyte Beta BIOS.

Ok found a link for them.
Found a link for them.

Check your PCIe settings from the Mainboard BIOS.



Otherwise, maybe just run the 7950 stock BIOS?
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Ok thanx I will try F11 from Gigabytes website. Any idea where I can get any of the sable F12`s.
 
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Right. I have just installed my second 7950 Boost along with my new Seasonic gold PSU :)

Turned on first, had to go into BIOS as detected unknown things but booted fine from there. Cards are crossfired and the drivers detected it straight away I uninstalled HIS iTurbo and have just tested the cards in Windows before I flash them. Strange thing though in GPU-Z it shows one card shaders 1792, 103.6GP fill rate but the second card is showing as 2048 shaders, 118GP fill rate? Anyone care to enlighten me?
 
Ok kinda weird i've posted the last 3 times now and the thread seems dead but I thought worth pointing out at least that whilst I have achieved a stable overclock of 1100/1250 at 1.225 on the new non boost bios I have encountered bugs which have required me to disable ULPS still. Rome 2 for instance upon exiting (and the game is fubared with gpu usage anyway but gpu 1 gets 20-30% and gpu 2 seems stuck at 99% in game) GPU2 will be stuck at 99% usage this actually caused my system to lock up a few times after exiting the game! so I raised from 1.2 to 1.225 which stopped the lockup but the usage bug remained, as well as most of the OSD monitoring not working for GPU 2 with ULPS on.

Hoping you may have some advice but thought you might want the bug report!
 
Use the latest 13.11 beta drivers Rich. They contain some scaling and performance improvements for Rome 2. Rome 2 is a crappy game though for Multi gpu support. Just be grateful AMD have some support for it at all as Nvidia have none. Disable ULPS for best performance.
 
I have given up with these. I cant see that both cards are faulty. But I can only guess that my board a) dosent like these cards b) is faulty

But with the time scale to RMA the board, I would run out of time to send the 7950s back under DSR.

Just wish I had a) another board to try b) someone to try the cards.
 
Got my 2 iceQ boost cards the other day and I've added the new bios in the OP and its working OK, so thanks to Tommy N Matt for that.

I am having one issue though and I wonder if someone could help?
When I've been on a game and I quit to desktop the bottom card keeps running at 99% load even though there's no game running. To stop it I either have to restart windows or disable then enable xfire.

Is this common and how do I fix it. Cards at stock (with the new bios in OP) and I have catalyst 13.9 (I think, the latest one that isn't a beta).

Appreciate the help if anyone can.:)
 
redrooster303 said:
Got my 2 iceQ boost cards the other day and I've added the new bios in the OP and its working OK, so thanks to Tommy N Matt for that.

I am having one issue though and I wonder if someone could help?
When I've been on a game and I quit to desktop the bottom card keeps running at 99% load even though there's no game running. To stop it I either have to restart windows or disable then enable xfire.

Is this common and how do I fix it. Cards at stock (with the new bios in OP) and I have catalyst 13.9 (I think, the latest one that isn't a beta).

Appreciate the help if anyone can.:)
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Uninstall 13.9. Download and install the latest 13.11 beta drivers from here.

Does that solve the issue? If not try...

Downloading MSI Afterburner beta 15 from here.

Install it, run it, restart pc. Then go to settings and tick Disable ULPS. Click ok and restart your pc.


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Does that fix the problem?
 
Thanks I'll check this out.

I used to always run afterburner with my other cards but uninstalled it when I got these.
I wanted to keep ulps on really and was happy when I read this bios could handle it being on (save leccy) but I will turn it off if it stops this though.

First time on xfire, I've had SLI twice though.


Right I'll check it out and post back.
 
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