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Temp.sgk said:
Is it possible to crossfire the 7950 with one of the newer R series cards? Also the amd display driver crashes when not using Afterburner on an OC 7950 with matt bios. Is this normal?
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1.You can use an R280X with the 7950 in CrossFire.

2. It didn't crash on older drivers for me, idk about newer drivers though as I don't have them any more.
 
after a lot of messing about with my his 7950 i think it mayb on its way out. i was never happy with the temps so i reseated the cooler with new paste, no change in temps. i flashed numerous bios's and in the end was happy until Ltmatt posted his last bios with aggresive fan control. i decided to try this out to get the temps down a little. after the flash the card would hang about 5mins in to full load. now every bios i flash has the same result. the stock bios works but any overclock or even just adjusting the power limit slightly results in the card hanging and fans running full speed. my psu is an xfx 850w so i dnt think its the problem. any ideas what i have done to my card?
 
Which bios would be best for the lowest voltage but able to do 1000/1500?

I'm going to move my now flashed to 0.962v Twin Frozr3 to my ITX build, and have IceQs in crossfire, so heavy overclock isn't needed.

Ideally with a fan profile that will ramp up to 100% if the cards go above 80º, but nice and quiet below that.

Cheers!
 
tommybhoy said:
New bios for testing:

925/1250MHz Non Boost 1.175v -INCREASED TDP FROM 130W TO 173W-CrossFire users-ulps can now remain enabled with no performance loss!!!

This is a new bios that Matt and myself have been testing, further feedback welcome-especially if you are running CrossFire.

Matt's found you can overclock further before you need the power limit.

My own testing has achieved slightly lower voltage for my 24/7 clocks:

Before-1100/[email protected] +30% Power Limit

Using this bios-1100/[email protected] no Power Limit adjustment required.

Download Link

http://www.sendspace.com/file/risbea
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Sorry for the thread revival but I've just got my hands on another 7950 ICE-Q and need some help.

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I've flashed both cards with the BIOS above but if I enable Crossfire any game hard locks within about 1 minute of starting (850W Corsair PSU so plenty of power)

Crossfire is definitely working as the status icon is displayed, also framerate is greatly improved until the lockup!

I've tried both 13.12 and 14.4 but they both do exactly the same!

If I disable Crossfire the games play fine, no lockup, no crossfire status icon, reduced framerates.

HELP!
 
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Anyone know if there's a HiS 280 Boost (non 'X') BIOS floating around modded in the same way as these 7950 BIOS?

I looked on the HiS website and it says they do the 280 version (non 'X'), but never seen it anywhere...

Guess it makes little to no real difference, just be nice to 'upgrade' my card to the latest model! lol
 
Hi, might be a stupid question, but does the card support 144Hz?

I've looked every where I can think of and can't seem to find the answer.

Cheers
 
Hi guys,

Would a Corsair GS600 be enough to crossfire 7950 iceq boosts with? The amount of contradictory information I've found online is unreal!

Cheers :-)
 
bradUK said:
Hi guys,

Would a Corsair GS600 be enough to crossfire 7950 iceq boosts with? The amount of contradictory information I've found online is unreal!

Cheers :-)
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i could if you have a lowish power cpu with no oc and the 7950 are stock, but it would be close to flat out all the time, so i would recommend it. a 750w psu would be better
 
After browsing through this thread at work today and trying to get my head around all this, I have to say I'm throughly stumped. I have a HIS 7950 BOOST, what is the current state of play? As someone who's not been in for the entire journey of these revelations, I have to say I've been left scratching my head.. Do I need to flash my bios? Which version do I flash to? First of all Afterburner wasn't a wise move, now it appears to be.. There's a new version just come out recently, do I just get that and discard all this bios tweaking??

I was playing Crysis 3 earlier and I felt it was performing pretty badly so lowered some details and raised my clock speeds. It still felt pretty poor performance-wise. At this point I reset my clocks to default and alt-tabbed back into the game, only to find to my utter dismay that it was at least 10fps quicker, this was a NOTICABLE boost in fps so I'm obviously experiencing some sort of problem. Should I UNDER clock this card to get even better performance? Is Afterburner showing me accurate results?

I'm not asking for someone to hand-hold me through the entire process and I apologise if that's how I'm coming across, but I wouldn't mind a state of play reminder for someone like me who's not long jumped into this 'adventure'..!!
 
The link to download the 1.18v 1000/1400 BIOS (number 2 on the first post) is dead. I have the BIOS installed on one card, is there any way to extract it so I can flash the same bios onto another card please?

Cheers!
 
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