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

Make said:
I'd love to see these iceQ (Or similar) coolers being available on a wider range of cards, like Nvidia ones.

I am in love with "Blower-style" coolers, but they'er loud as heck if you wanna stay under 70c. Silent at under 80 but throttling.
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HIS are an AMD only partner i think so im afraid thats unlikely.

The good thing about the Ice-Q blower is its very quiet. Only becomes noticeable at very high speeds. 100% on the Ice-Q is like 60% on an AMD reference card.
 
Mine arrives later today :).

Having read above, I'm not going to do a massive overclock, so am I correct in thinking I don't need to worry about power line stuff?

Current plan.

1) Install card & CCC
2) Install HIS Afterburner
3) Set clocks to 1100/1400 and voltage to 1.175
4) Test for stability/knock voltage up if required
5) Grin. Like a fool.

Sound about right?
 
Makhaira said:
Mine arrives later today :).

Having read above, I'm not going to do a massive overclock, so am I correct in thinking I don't need to worry about power line stuff?

Current plan.

1) Install card & CCC
2) Install HIS Afterburner
3) Set clocks to 1100/1400 and voltage to 1.175
4) Test for stability/knock voltage up if required
5) Grin. Like a fool.

Sound about right?
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Try it and see how you get on. Use an overlay from msi afterburner to monitor core clock and gpu usage just to check you're not throttling. If you see the core clock dropping below 1100 while stressed you know its throttling.
 
Long time no BF3 shooting Matt, hope you're doing ok :). Will be able to rejoin you guys once this is up and running.

Where can I read up on this powerline malarky? It's not something I'm familiar with, or the risks of doing so. The guides in the OP tell you how to meddle with it, but not so much of the "what" or "why".

Cheers!
 
Makhaira said:
Long time no BF3 shooting Matt, hope you're doing ok :). Will be able to rejoin you guys once this is up and running.

Where can I read up on this powerline malarky? It's not something I'm familiar with, or the risks of doing so. The guides in the OP tell you how to meddle with it, but not so much of the "what" or "why".

Cheers!
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All it does is raise the TDP of the card so the card can draw more voltage when overclocking without throttling the core clocks down to reduce the load.

I look forward to killing you on the battlefield soon mate. :p
 
Makhaira said:
Ah right. You'd think they'd just release an updated official BIOS given it's a voltage unlocked card and the cooler can clearly cope!
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Yes its a rather unfortunate issue but it only becomes noticeable at the higher end of overclocks. Its a problem affecting all the boost cards as far as i know.
 
I found that 1100/1400 was throttling back at stock settings, pushing the power limit to 20% and voltage to 1.175v was what I used after and it was fine until it crashed in Crysis 3, so bumped voltage to 1.180v and been OK since.

My ASIC quality is only 63% so guess I don't have a great clocker, but seems fine now with the little voltage bump. Quite annoying though with overclocking this card, HiS Turbo doesn't seem to load my overclock when starting Windows for some reason so have to manually load it every time.

Just ordered a cheapo USB stick so I can flash the BIOS to a non boost one (assume I can continue to use MSI Afterburner on it's own after this?).
 
SouthEastBlue said:
Just ordered a cheapo USB stick so I can flash the BIOS to a non boost one (assume I can continue to use MSI Afterburner on it's own after this?).
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Yes you can but make sure its the bios i linked in the second post. Other bios probably won't work with this card. Every other bios ive tried has failed because of the Elpida memory and different memory timings.
 
I navigated to the other thread regarding Boost BIOS that IC3 made and used the 1070/1400 BIOS, and did it via ATIWinflash... I got impatient. ;)

Having opened GPU-Z it seemed to work fine.

If this doesn't work how I like I will try the other BIOS you linked on page 1. Thanks! :D
 
SouthEastBlue said:
I navigated to the other thread regarding Boost BIOS that IC3 made and used the 1070/1400 BIOS, and did it via ATIWinflash... I got impatient. ;)

Having opened GPU-Z it seemed to work fine.

If this doesn't work how I like I will try the other BIOS you linked on page 1. Thanks! :D
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That's fine, but you play the lottery every time you flash a video card bios in Windows. I suppose you always have the second bios to fall back on though should sheet hit the fan.

That bios is the same as the one i linked in the second post it just has a 70mhz higher core clock. :)
 
3 or 4 years ago I remember using ATIWinFlash with my old XFX 4870 quite a few times when making my own graphics card BIOS, never encountered any problems. Is there a reason why people normally recommend to flash via USB stick and not in Windows?

Also separate issue... My big sticker fell off my graphics card while in my case, does this void my warranty?! (Hope not) I tried pushing it back on but it just fell off again. Not bothered about it being on there, just curious really.
 
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