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

Case airflow? Tried in my Corsair 200R with front, bottom, rear, and two top fans... Thought my case airflow sucked due to closed front, so I swapped out my kids PC which was in a Zalman Z9+ and put my PC into that, and the kids PC into my Corsair (was an absolute nuisance). The Zalman Z9+ has front, bottom, rear and top fans and same results... CPU temps are good, graphics card temps are appalling.

Also my old 6870 Hawk (with Twin Frozr III) cooler was fine in this case, was nearly always under 70 Celsius apart from a couple of really hot summer days, and that was with 960/1100 overclock on it.

As for the cooler on the card, it looks brand new because it was only fit into my case last weekend! I took the card out just now and looked all over it, nothing looks loose and it still looks pretty much new. I'm confused. There's no warranty void if removed stickers on the PCB for the cooler to be removed, but I'm not inclined to remove it because it looks like it has pads to absorb heat from other parts of the card which I assume will be sticky if I pulled it off, would also prefer not to mess with a brand new card.

I read a review for cards with this IceQ cooler, and it should be 60 to 70 Celsius by the looks of things at stock speeds. :(

The annoying thing is, the card idles at 32 Celsius, which I assume is about right?
 
I just ran Unigine Valley with the side of my case off, on stock clocks @ 1.125v (lowest HIS iturbo would let me go with stock BIOS) and was at 71 Celsius after about 8 mins. That's the sort of temps I need, but without having to undervolt the thing and open my case side! :(

Gonna have a play around with it to see if I'm making some noob error or something, but I can't see how. If not I will have to discuss an RMA.
 
Case side off, 1100Mhz core, 1400Mhz memory, 1.19v, 20% power limit and 50% fan speed got me a max temp of 84 Celsius in Unigine Valley. That was an overclock using the stock boost BIOS.

Gonna set up an RMA I guess... :(
 
Hi folks,

After having loads of driver issues I finally have this card up and running.
I've read this thread and have a couple of queries.
I installed iturbo and set my clocks at 1050/1400, set power to 10%, turned the voltage down to 1.190 and ran 3D Mark.
Highest temp reached was 68 degrees and the fan reached a max of 48%.
I never had any droops at peak usage, so:

Would flashing the bios gain me anything?
Do these bios just replace the 925/1250? What voltage do they default to, or is this something that you have to set yourself regardless?

Thanks
 
SouthEastBlue said:
Case side off, 1100Mhz core, 1400Mhz memory, 1.19v, 20% power limit and 50% fan speed got me a max temp of 84 Celsius in Unigine Valley. That was an overclock using the stock boost BIOS.

Gonna set up an RMA I guess... :(
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There's your problem, you are running a high oc that I would say needs at least a manual set fan@75%, which is still considerably quieter than a WF/TFIII on auto@60c.

An rma is only going to cost you a return fee/testing imo.
 
JJimmyJ said:
Would flashing the bios gain me anything?
Do these bios just replace the 925/1250? What voltage do they default to, or is this something that you have to set yourself regardless?

Thanks
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Flashing the bios enables disabled boost clocks/lower stock voltage=no gpu spiking/cooler running.

The voltage are set in accordance to Asic quality, you don't set stock voltage as such unless you want even lower voltage.
 
tommybhoy said:
There's your problem, you are running a high oc that I would say needs at least a manual set fan@75%, which is still considerably quieter than a WF/TFIII on auto@60c.

An rma is only going to cost you a return fee/testing imo.
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This is what I'm worried about - paying to return the card, and getting it sent back to me.

I don't normally run that overclock, I just did it for testing though as I was asked in another post and it's similar to what others are running. For the last week I was mostly running the 1050/1400 BIOS from the other thread which runs at 1.18v which was where my card hit 93 Celsius in Sleeping Dogs and I had to quickly quit the game.

Also the thing is, when I tried the normal BIOS at stock settings in the same game, the card still hit 85+. Clearly something is wrong. The heat pipes and metal part is scorching hot to the touch, this tells me it's seated correctly. I'm curious if there's a problem with the fan itself though, it just doesn't seem to remove the heat well enough.

I can't see how my card is hitting 80+ Celsius and everyone else is 60 - 70 Celsius, unless everyone else is lying which I doubt.

Not sure what to do now, RMA is arranged, but I was having doubts whether they will agree the item is faulty.
 
tommybhoy said:
Flashing the bios enables disabled boost clocks/lower stock voltage=no gpu spiking/cooler running.

The voltage are set in accordance to Asic quality, you don't set stock voltage as such unless you want even lower voltage.
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Thanks tommy,

So, if I flash it creates stock settings of 1050/1400, but the voltage to run at that level will be set by Asic quality? So if it sets it at say 1.85 (would be nice) I could potentially have a fair bit more overclock headroom?
Would this also be the case for idle temps? I can see now that I've changed voltage manually, the idle voltage seems to have also dropped.

Bit new to this as I've never really messed about with voltages on previous cards, just used ccc for a quick boost.
 
I kept fan speeds on auto for every bios/setting I used to be honest, apart from the odd testing with manual fan speed. Nobody else really mentioned manual fan speeds until last night when I was asked to run at 50% with an overclock and try it.

I did just do 3 runs in Unigine Valley at 1100/1400, 20% power increase, stock voltage (1.25v) and 75% fan... It crashed on the third run when it hit 87 Celsius.

Any other settings I can try to get a comparison against any of you lot? :(

If I send it back it will be tomorrow (I'm away from Monday to Friday the week after), so I have until then to convince myself not to waste my money sending it for testing.
 
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LtMatt said:
He might also have a bad paste job and or poor cooler contact.
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That could be case, maybe simpler to redo it yourself and keep quiet about it, but I still think he needs to bump up the fan at those clock speeds.

I've noticed@stock, the 79s can run quite hot and stay relatively stable on a lower fan profile to reduce noise, but, oc them however and artifacts/ctd happen even when running cooler.

@SouthEastBlue,

Ocuk will only test the card@stock so I presume it will pass as (presuming again here) they won't monitor temps etc, if it simply works out the box, it works.

The only other options are to discuss the matter in a CS thread to find out where you stand regarding temps/redo paste etc, or DSR the card and order another/different gpu while taking a hit on postage cost if you definitely want rid of that particular card.
 
JJimmyJ said:
Thanks tommy,

So, if I flash it creates stock settings of 1050/1400, but the voltage to run at that level will be set by Asic quality? So if it sets it at say 1.85 (would be nice) I could potentially have a fair bit more overclock headroom?
Would this also be the case for idle temps? I can see now that I've changed voltage manually, the idle voltage seems to have also dropped.

Bit new to this as I've never really messed about with voltages on previous cards, just used ccc for a quick boost.
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If you use that bios it will run cooler on higher clocks as the voltage is still lower than the high 1.25v boost bios, that custom bios is 1.175v iirc, matt will tell you for sure(I'm not sure which one I'm running now I've flashed that many).

I dont think idle clocks are different as it runs lower voltage in idle anyway but I could be wrong there.

Still pot luck on oc'ing but going balls out will require 1.3v so it doesn't really matter what bios you use as they both need bumped up(but the stock will probably spike though).
 
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