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On my crossfire setup i see varying temps based on clock speed and voltage level.

925/1250x2 @1.038v - Sleeping Dogs 66-64c - Battlefield 3 58-62c
1125/[email protected] - Sleeping Dogs 77-81c - Battlefield 70-73c

I have my fan speed set to match the temp so 40c = 40% fan speed. 80c = 80% fan speed.
 
1100/1400 on stock bios and voltage here.

Idle is 31-32. Battlefield 3 on Ultra sees lows 60's.
Sleeping dogs sees highs 60's after a few hours.

Never seems to get in the 70's. :)
 
Why the heck is my idle temp so high then?!

Set voltage to 1.18v in iTurbo, and I have a 140mm intake fan pulling straight into the card intake, so bit confused as to why it's so high relative to other people on here...
 
What case do you have? I think my case definitely restricts my cooling capacity when the card is being maxed out in certain games due to restrictive airflow from the front of the case... Maybe yours is limiting idle temps too if you have too much hot air floating about inside your case. Just a thought...
 
Does seem high. My case isnt even that great for airflow. HAF 912 with a 200mm fan at the front, 200mm on top and a 120mm exhaust.
 
Hold on, a memory has just stirred.

Is there still an issue with the clocks not dropping correctly on dual screens? It used to happen on older Radeon cards. I'm running dual monitors you see...
 
Makhaira said:
Why the heck is my idle temp so high then?!

Set voltage to 1.18v in iTurbo, and I have a 140mm intake fan pulling straight into the card intake, so bit confused as to why it's so high relative to other people on here...
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You don't have disable 2d clocks ticked in HIS iTurbo do you?

Makhaira said:
Hold on, a memory has just stirred.

Is there still an issue with the clocks not dropping correctly on dual screens? It used to happen on older Radeon cards. I'm running dual monitors you see...
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YES!

Dual screen runs at full memory speed. Luckily that barely uses any more power. Core clock might run at 500mhz as well.
 
That'll be why then. Core is definitely at 500Mhz at desktop.

At least I know I don't have an issue anyways :). Thanks guys!
 
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Running mine on standard boost bios with occasional stable overclock of 1100/1500.

Tempted to do the BIOS flash but also a bit scared at the same time! Don't want to kill my card....:eek:
 
Jonny Chee said:
Running mine on standard boost bios with occasional stable overclock of 1100/1500.

Tempted to do the BIOS flash but also a bit scared at the same time! Don't want to kill my card....:eek:
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These cards have dual BIOS, so you can flash BIOS 1 and still have BIOS 2 (unflashable) left for emergencies.

I read that if you mess up BIOS 1 flash, you can just boot from BIOS 2, flick the switch back to BIOS 1 then attempt the flash again until it's successful. It might have been in the other thread regarding flashing 7950 boost cards to normal versions that IC3 created.
 
@Jonny Chee,

As long as you have one working bios left, the card is fine, as above, both bios are recoverable if it goes wrong-but in all cases, if you brick one bios, don't be foolish and attempt to flash the other bios without recovering the one you made a mess of first.

IC3 said:
Finally Offcial Ice-Q thread! Good work Tommy ;)
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I pulled the short straw, but I'm sure the Lt will be the hardest at work in here. ;)
 
Stuck it at 1.18v, fired up Farcry at 1080p in Ultra mode, and only just hit 69C, very nice :).

Do I need to select "restore clocks at startup" to have iTurbo always maintain the lower max voltage?

Also, is Fraps still the program of choice for frame rate monitoring?
 
Actually, scratch that. Monitoring in HW Monitor shows that the card is still going up to 1.25V under load. Why the heck isn't it applying properly? I've done all possible Apply/Save/Load with the profiles, Overdrive is enabled, what is this madness? Lol.
 
Makhaira said:
Actually, scratch that. Monitoring in HW Monitor shows that the card is still going up to 1.25V under load. Why the heck isn't it applying properly? I've done all possible Apply/Save/Load with the profiles, Overdrive is enabled, what is this madness? Lol.
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Maybe Tommy can confirm but im not sure its possible to stop the card boosting, is it tommy? I honestly can't remember now its been so long since i used the stock bios.
 
Moh2 said:
Sorry if what I'm about to ask seems a little silly but are you saying that you can boot from BIOS 2 then flick the BIOS switch while your PC is running to flash BIOS 1?
If this is true then that's great news for me because my card doesn't display ANYTHING when it is set to the first BIOS which means it would be impossible to flash otherwise.
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From what I read I understand that was the case, that you could set it to number 2 and boot into windows, and while running in windows flick the switch to number 1 then attempt to flash the bios as per guides. I can't verify that as 100% but that was simply how it came across when I read it as the way to fix a failed flash.

I noticed Crysis 3 crashed again with the clock at 1070/1400 using the custom bios in the other thread, changed to the 1050/1400 one and been spot on so far. Think I just have a crappy card (in terms of overclock). Either way at 1080p using ultra textures, with the other settings on high and medium motion blur the game looks awesome and has been playing 50 - 60fps solid. :D
 
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