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

[Tonester0011]

I own one of these cards!
Can't remember my reason for actually buying, cannot believe how cheap they feel/look and how quiet they actually ran. Only put mine on the bench for 5 mins to make sure it works and has been in the box ever since.

 

[tommybhoy]

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?

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.

100% correct.

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.

Stock bios always boosts, boost sucks imo.

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).

Or it just needs more volts,but 1050/1400 is still a good clock on lower voltage.

 

[Makhaira]

Well I'll have to see if it does 1100/1400 happily and if so then flash the BIOS .

 

[Heisenberg]

I have one of these cards and flashed the Bios to remove the boost and let me lower voltage. Now i've happily been running at 1.18V at 1100/1500 but only when doing some tinkering tonight, i have noticed that my idle voltage seems to stick at what i have set in Afterburner, 1.18V. This is monitoring using GPU-Z. I have also noticed that by lowering the voltage to 0.95V that my idle temp seems to drop by around 5 degrees. Anyone else noticed this using one of these Bios? Might flash back to original Bios and test. Cheers

 

[Makhaira]

Just set mine to 1100/1400 and had a blast on Farcry and it seems very happy. Maxed out at 78C. Had set power to +20% too.

Shame it's such a faff to bring the voltage down, but if it's going to be high then I may as well keep the clocks up to match!

 

[Heisenberg]

I have one of these cards and flashed the Bios to remove the boost and let me lower voltage. Now i've happily been running at 1.18V at 1100/1500 but only when doing some tinkering tonight, i have noticed that my idle voltage seems to stick at what i have set in Afterburner, 1.18V. This is monitoring using GPU-Z. I have also noticed that by lowering the voltage to 0.95V that my idle temp seems to drop by around 5 degrees. Anyone else noticed this using one of these Bios? Might flash back to original Bios and test. Cheers

Nevermind. I set up a 2D profile in Afterburner to overcome this

 

[SouthEastBlue]

Well done on fixing your card, nice to see it worked!

Also looks like you have a good clocking card too, I can't run 1070Mhz without crashes in Crysis 3 using 1.18v, although I can do 1125Mhz in the Unigine Valley benchmark anything else will crash that too. Annoying!

 

[Jarrastafari]

Yea, I suspect that the lowered voltage was causing me problems with crashes in games.

However, I haven't had time to test this on the flashed BIOS; I'm still using my backup for now.

 

[Makhaira]

Soddit, tomorrow night's job is now to flash the Bios. Jealous of the clocks with low voltages! I presume the fact there's a dual Bios means the warranty supports flashing?

 

[BG1980]

Just a quick post to say thanks for the guide, just flashed my BIOS with the one linked by Matt and it works perfectly

Clocked it to 1100/1400 and set the voltage to 1125mv, tried Crysis 3 on V.High settings and it's stable and only reaching temps of 72C after an hour of playing. Very happy

 

[LtMatt]

Just a quick post to say thanks for the guide, just flashed my BIOS with the one linked by Matt and it works perfectly

Clocked it to 1100/1400 and set the voltage to 1125mv, tried Crysis 3 on V.High settings and it's stable and only reaching temps of 72C after an hour of playing. Very happy

Good to hear another happy customer.

 

[lauy]

Just installed your bios and all working sweet! Lower voltages, good clocks (currently running 1050/1400 but not had the chance to play with it much yet)

Any idea of the sweet spot for clock numbers and voltages in terms of values?

Thanks for the help guys and Matt for the bios

 

[LtMatt]

Just installed your bios and all working sweet! Lower voltages, good clocks (currently running 1050/1400 but not had the chance to play with it much yet)

Any idea of the sweet spot for clock numbers and voltages in terms of values?

Thanks for the help guys and Matt for the bios

Good to hear mate. Sweet spot for core and memory seems to be around 1100/1500. I run 24/7 at 1125/1500 and 1.2v.

 

[Jonny Chee]

Good to hear mate. Sweet spot for core and memory seems to be around 1100/1500. I run 24/7 at 1125/1500 and 1.2v.

What power setting do you use for those clocks LtMatt?

I am using your BIOS (which is awesome btw) but haven't adjusted the power slider yet (should I)?

 

[LtMatt]

What power setting do you use for those clocks LtMatt?

I am using your BIOS (which is awesome btw) but haven't adjusted the power slider yet (should I)?

Its not my bios, its Kabooms bios which he created for me. I only renamed it to Matt.rom because he made me loads and i was getting confused with all the various names.

Just use +20% and forget about it.

 

[Tripledot]

Installed one of these a week ago. When the monitors go to sleep after 10mins the system crashes completely (black screen, keyboard unresponsive). Needs a hard reset to fix.

Worked around this by just disabling the monitor sleep in power options. I read about this issue in 12.x drivers last year, this still a problem with 13.4?

 

[LtMatt]

Installed one of these a week ago. When the monitors go to sleep after 10mins the system crashes completely (black screen, keyboard unresponsive). Needs a hard reset to fix.

Worked around this by just disabling the monitor sleep in power options. I read about this issue in 12.x drivers last year, this still a problem with 13.4?

No problems here on W8 and 13.10. Wakes from sleep just fine. One thing i did notice is BLCK overclocking seems to break sleep for me and will cause a black screen after sleep. So i just removed that and it worked fine.

 

[Jonny Chee]

Installed one of these a week ago. When the monitors go to sleep after 10mins the system crashes completely (black screen, keyboard unresponsive). Needs a hard reset to fix.

Worked around this by just disabling the monitor sleep in power options. I read about this issue in 12.x drivers last year, this still a problem with 13.4?

I had this same issue for a while, though I can't remember which driver I was using at the time. It went away after formatting my OS drive.

I am using 13.10 currently and having no issues.

 

[tommybhoy]

No problems on W8 with sleep here, been using sleep for a long time too over various drivers, maybe a specific setup/software conflict on your end Tripledot.