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hughythomas said:
Gonna push up by 10Mhz at a time I guess...

Were you saying stock volts (1.175v) is enough usually for ~1000Mhz yer?

What sort of powerline for that core clock dude?
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Leave power line at 20-30% and forget about it. No need to change it.

1.175v should be good for between 1025-1125 on the core. I can run 1100 core at 1.175v. Your mileage may vary. Use baby steps. 25mhz increases at a time between testing.
 
Still ****ing crashing in Skyrim - played Chivalry for ages @ 970Mhz no probs.

My Skyrim is heavily modded with ENB so probably stressing card to the max.

Matt, I reflashed the card to be sure but physically rebooted computer instead of ctrl+alt+delete. Will this have caused it not to flash properly?

OK correction its crashing on Skyrim (hard crash) even at stock!!!!! Wth is going on with this thing?
 
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OK I'm becoming more and more convinced the card is faulty tbh.

Running Heaven benchmark produces exactly the same hard crash as in Skyrim (even at stock).

Note, that nothing else has changed in my system apart from the graphics card - I have even clocked my CPU back to stock and run Skyrim/Heaven and both produce this crash whereupon the screen goes black and the fan on the card powers down forcing me to restart each time.

Something interesting I have just noticed (confirmed 4 times now) is that I get this hard crash when the card hits 60c every time? LtMatt, can you shed some light on this for me please?

Maybe the cards fine and there is some thermal setting that needs disabling or something? My case is a Prodigy btw but the fan is manually set to 100%.
 
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hughythomas said:
Awesome just enabled the overlay following your instructions - what am I looking for when running Heaven/Skyrim exactly?
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Keep an eye on the core clock and gpu usage. Look for core clock dropping below 925 or whatever core clock you're currently using. During Heaven gpu usage should be at 99% solid, sometimes dipping into the low 90's as a scene changes.
 
New version of the best HIS Ice-Q Bios available for everyone to try. Comes with a slightly more aggressive fan profile. Again the need for power limit should almost completely reduced except at high overclocks with lots of voltage. Recommend everyone uses this one from now on. :)

925/1250 @1.175v

Bios
http://www.sendspace.com/file/risbea
 
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hughythomas said:
OK I'm becoming more and more convinced the card is faulty tbh.

Running Heaven benchmark produces exactly the same hard crash as in Skyrim (even at stock).

Note, that nothing else has changed in my system apart from the graphics card - I have even clocked my CPU back to stock and run Skyrim/Heaven and both produce this crash whereupon the screen goes black and the fan on the card powers down forcing me to restart each time.

Something interesting I have just noticed (confirmed 4 times now) is that I get this hard crash when the card hits 60c every time? LtMatt, can you shed some light on this for me please?

Maybe the cards fine and there is some thermal setting that needs disabling or something? My case is a Prodigy btw but the fan is manually set to 100%.
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Did you completely remove all old drivers, profiles from graphics overclock software etc before flashing the card? Maybe try deleting the skyrim .ini files out and get it to redownload them in order to identify the new card properly?
I also have a really daft suggestion, but try reseating the ram. I've heard that sometimes the ram can get confused (rare, but coule be worth a shot) when changing graphics card. Some caching issue apparently.
 
LtMatt said:
Keep an eye on the core clock and gpu usage. Look for core clock dropping below 925 or whatever core clock you're currently using. During Heaven gpu usage should be at 99% solid, sometimes dipping into the low 90's as a scene changes.
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Hey man have run Heaven/Skyrim many many times and it goes like this - as SOON as the temp hits 60c its game over.

Full crash (same crash) and i have to manually restart computer...

Any suggestions lads? I'm at my wits end - 7970 Lightning never did this...
 
LtMatt said:
New version of the best HIS Ice-Q Bios available for everyone to try. Comes with a slightly more aggressive fan profile. Again the need for power limit should almost completely reduced except at high overclocks with lots of voltage. Recommend everyone uses this one from now on. :)

925/1250 @1.175v

Bios
http://www.sendspace.com/file/risbea
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I gotta flash again. lol

What happens if you flash without uninstalling everything.
 
JJimmyJ said:
Did you completely remove all old drivers, profiles from graphics overclock software etc before flashing the card? Maybe try deleting the skyrim .ini files out and get it to redownload them in order to identify the new card properly?
I also have a really daft suggestion, but try reseating the ram. I've heard that sometimes the ram can get confused (rare, but coule be worth a shot) when changing graphics card. Some caching issue apparently.
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Thanks for your suggestion but I was running a 7970 Lightning and removed AMD drivers using typical uninstall (then driver sweeper). Also, I have done this many times because of the flashing...

Lets be clear here - its not just Skyrim its also any game that pushes my card to 60c...maybe VRMS or something?
 
hughythomas said:
Hey man have run Heaven/Skyrim many many times and it goes like this - as SOON as the temp hits 60c its game over.

Full crash (same crash) and i have to manually restart computer...

Any suggestions lads? I'm at my wits end - 7970 Lightning never did this...
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Even on the original stock bios? If so id guess its a faulty card then. As one last try flash the bios i posted above.

Clairvoyant said:
I gotta flash again. lol

What happens if you flash without uninstalling everything.
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I think you'll be ok.
 
hughythomas said:
Thanks for your suggestion but I was running a 7970 Lightning and removed AMD drivers using typical uninstall (then driver sweeper). Also, I have done this many times because of the flashing...

Lets be clear here - its not just Skyrim its also any game that pushes my card to 60c...maybe VRMS or something?
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Can you check dxdiag just out to see if there's any reference to the old card? I had all sorts of issues when I upgraded to this card from my old 6850. I ran driver sweep multiple times, even in safe mode, but it still had reference to my old card. I checked the registry and the amount of entries for the 6850 was incredible.
Complete longshot as it seems to be a very uncommon issue.
 
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