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ViRuS2k said:
the reason you have HDMI issues guys is cause the bios your flashing is modded from a non HIS official bios.
only way to get HDMI working is using a official his bios modified variety.. and trust me i have previous experiance on this issue, when i used previously a gigabyte 7970 bios, when used HDMI was useless, in my ever ending quest to find a working bios that would work with afterburner i found it ;) but then i modded my own official bios as back then there where no tools to modify your official bios`s.
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Im Running the standard BIOS on the card.
 
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I've got to say well done to you guys and the others involved in these custom BIOSs. I'm not really sure what difference they've made for me, but it's a nice option to have.

At some point I plan to watercool mine (got the blocks ready to go, assuming http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/ is correct and these use a standard 7950 block) and go Tri-Fire. I'll probably be using the custom BIOSs on all three when I do.

I will say, and this isn't specific to these BIOS, that my 670s massively outscore my 7950s in Heaven at factory clocks. Does Heaven just favour Nvidia or do you need to clock AMD cards in order to bring their performance level with, what was at one time, the card in the equivalent place in the Nvidia line-up?
 
Andygully said:
anyone answer my question, is my 3570k enough for xfire on these cards?
also anyone successfully added efi to this bios?
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I run a 2500K at 4.7 with two of these, I get GPU usage percentages in the mid-high 90s, so there may be a bit of a bottleneck but not enough to make me rush out and buy a 3770K/4770K (yet :p). Your 3570K should do just fine.

GoogalyMoogaly said:
I will say, and this isn't specific to these BIOS, that my 670s massively outscore my 7950s in Heaven at factory clocks. Does Heaven just favour Nvidia or do you need to clock AMD cards in order to bring their performance level with, what was at one time, the card in the equivalent place in the Nvidia line-up?
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Apparently Heaven 4.0 favours Nvidia cards as they handle tesselation better than AMD cards. My crossfire 7950s can't match the highest clocked single 780s/TITANs in Heaven or Valley but will outstrip the same cards in other benchmarks.
 
SouthEastBlue said:
I'm running the latest BIOS updated in the OP and I have no problems using HDMI, I always use it to connect to the TV in my bedroom to watch movies on.
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Thats good to know as I use my TV sometimes for gaming. I may have to have a play with this Bios at some point.

I Usually clock my card at 1100/1300 for gaming with no probs but I would like to see what it can do with the boost stripped out. The ASIC on my card is 79.5% so in theory I should be able to clock quite well on air?
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
I will say, and this isn't specific to these BIOS, that my 670s massively outscore my 7950s in Heaven at factory clocks. Does Heaven just favour Nvidia or do you need to clock AMD cards in order to bring their performance level with, what was at one time, the card in the equivalent place in the Nvidia line-up?
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Yeah Heaven is about as one sided a benchmark as you can get sadly. As always though, its games where it matters and the tables are more than often turned when you switch to games and overclock.
 
I don't really want to Bios flash mine or anything, but running two of these in crossfire with my i7 4770k at 4Ghz (want to up this a little later on).

What is considered a "safe" overclock, one where I don't need to up the voltages or anything?

I am running Afterburner, currently they are 925mhz Core and 1250mhz Memory, I assume I could just up these figures and it would apply each time I boot into my PC with Afterburner.
 
Q for you guys, i must have messed up on my optimized bios and set the power limit wrong
and im throttleing,

what settings do i put in this picture ??? so that i will get no throttling at all on the card...
even with any overclock.

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these must be the default power settings of the bios, what settings do i put so i get no throttling at all

EDIT: never mind i just ripped out a bios from somewhere else and read it for correct no throttleing power settings ;)

173 it is :)
 
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I got one of these cards yesterday, it's flaming huge. I can't even mount my dedicated gfx cooler inside my case. Though it runs very cool, and very quick. Now for BF4, although I have to wait, as the mrs got me it for my birthday. Hurry up!
 
I finally got around to trying the new bios with increased TDP and 1.175v and it is running very nicely now. The default fan profile is keeping temps to around 60c in games at 1100/1400 and the problem I had with crashing after system sleep hasn't re-occured.

Lots of internet cookies and massive thanks to LtMatt and tommybhoy for all their hard work in this thread :).
 
dcsarge said:
I finally got around to trying the new bios with increased TDP and 1.175v and it is running very nicely now. The default fan profile is keeping temps to around 60c in games at 1100/1400 and the problem I had with crashing after system sleep hasn't re-occured.

Lots of internet cookies and massive thanks to LtMatt and tommybhoy for all their hard work in this thread :).
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Pleasure. :)

Those are my custom fan settings at work. The default fan profile was always a bit slack on the Ice-Q imo. ;)
 
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