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Freakitchen · 17 Jan 2007 at 00:49

Couple of pics of my PowerColor x1950Pro, if anyone's interested

Notice that the card nicely disects the chipset fan in two - good job I never needed an aftermarket cooler on there!

FK

Tom|Nbk · 17 Jan 2007 at 01:21

I have to say im really impressed with these cards, the sheer number there flying out the doors is great for business im sure, performance wise nothing give you better bang for buck lets just hope ATI have a successor to this and can keep up with the 8600 8500 etc nvidia have planned.

username · 17 Jan 2007 at 11:24

Just installed my brand new his 1950pro 512mb ice q3. i am getting some grief here as it idles at 45c and loads at 55c+ then seems to cut out. if i cut the clock speed back to 600mhz it doesnt cut out but it still runs hot. any ideas please?

ShiWarrior · 17 Jan 2007 at 11:27

username said:
Just installed my brand new his 1950pro 512mb ice q3. i am getting some grief here as it idles at 45c and loads at 55c+ then seems to cut out. if i cut the clock speed back to 600mhz it doesnt cut out but it still runs hot. any ideas please?

Run it at stock, what IDLE temps u get?

also whats inside your case like? whats the temp on the mobo and CPU? can the air circulate?
What speed is the GFX card fan running at?

username · 17 Jan 2007 at 11:34

ShiWarrior said:
Run it at stock, what IDLE temps u get?

also whats inside your case like? whats the temp on the mobo and CPU? can the air circulate?
What speed is the GFX card fan running at?

at stock speeds 620mhz and 1485 it idles at 42c with fan set to 100% if i lower the fan setting it idles at 44c the internal case temp is currently 25c. I havent even tried to overclock yet as it would be nice if it would run at default first

will just whip it out an dmake sure the heat sink is seated correctly i think

Brok · 17 Jan 2007 at 11:46

Hi there,

Bit of a noobish question

Just got an HIS X1950 pro, looked in the ATI Control Centre and it shows the gpu at 623mhz (which is fine) but the memory shows 743mhz. This sounds a lot lower than it should be, is something wrong with my card?

2Thumbs · 17 Jan 2007 at 11:47

Brok said:
Hi there,

Bit of a noobish question Just got an HIS X1950 pro, looked in the ATI Control Centre and it shows the gpu at 623mhz (which is fine) but the memory shows 743mhz. This sounds a lot lower than it should be, is something wrong with my card?

743 x 2 = 1486mhz

mishima · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:17

username said:
Just installed my brand new his 1950pro 512mb ice q3. i am getting some grief here as it idles at 45c and loads at 55c+ then seems to cut out. if i cut the clock speed back to 600mhz it doesnt cut out but it still runs hot. any ideas please?

overclocking = faster = hotter. doesn't come as a suprise, just leave it at stock!

2Thumbs · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:18

I'm starting to wonder if it's worth the extra £20 for a 512mb HIS Pro... But then I could spend ANOTHER £15 or so and get an XT.

Ever decreasing circles, this is!

mishima · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:26

I had the same dilema, really its simple.. Pro. More ram and the clock speeds on it isn't much far behind. It will be able to handle DX10 games better with more RAM so your future proofing!

Brok · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:34

743 x 2 = 1486mhz

So is this something to do with DDR? Sorry I'm really not that clued up on this kind of stuff

melbourne720 · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:38

Brok said:
So is this something to do with DDR? Sorry I'm really not that clued up on this kind of stuff

Depending on the application, sometime the memory speed is rated as its actual speed, and sometimes it is referred as its effective speed (which is doubled in DDR, Double Data Rate).

username · 17 Jan 2007 at 12:56

mishima said:
overclocking = faster = hotter. doesn't come as a suprise, just leave it at stock!

that is the stock speed i havent overclocked it one bit that is what is worrying me. also i am getting freezes and lockup so vpu has to recover etc. any ides

mishima · 17 Jan 2007 at 13:40

Ah right sorry. So what brand is it? Mine idles @ around 35C. Has a stock cooler?

username · 17 Jan 2007 at 14:10

mishima said:
Ah right sorry. So what brand is it? Mine idles @ around 35C. Has a stock cooler?

its the his iceq3 model

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-070-HT

just went back to the driver that came on the disk and that is more stable and doesnt crash ingame but i am still running at 50+c when on load with a system case temp of 25c so i think this is too warm.

mishima · 17 Jan 2007 at 14:14

Do you have plenty of airflow, case fans etc?

Looks fine according to that bench

username · 17 Jan 2007 at 14:46

yeah looks within tolerances i guess. The newest version of the ati drivers must have not agreed with it as they made it crash a lot. i have uninstalled them and put the ones on the disk on instead and it seems more stable.

I think the newer drivers disagreed with it will give it a few days and see how it plays.

thanks

2Thumbs · 17 Jan 2007 at 14:58

mishima said:
I had the same dilema, really its simple.. Pro. More ram and the clock speeds on it isn't much far behind. It will be able to handle DX10 games better with more RAM so your future proofing!

That's what I was thinking!

rickw584 · 17 Jan 2007 at 15:20

mishima said:
Do you have plenty of airflow, case fans etc?

Looks fine according to that bench

hehe my gecube obviously runs much cooler than all of them!! lmao
I always thought that the temp sensor was built into the chip itself?

mishima · 17 Jan 2007 at 15:49

With my Gecube I couldnt detect the temperature cause it didn't have a sensor, this powercolor has one though. Are you able to detect the temperature in overdrive with your gecube?

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