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Cheeky upgrade for my system this week, additional 7970 vapor-X 6GB into my system. Time for some uber performance. -
Radeon 7970 Sapphire Dual X - Titanfall mod
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From the album: Titanfall Special Edition PC
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From the album: Titanfall Special Edition PC
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Hello there fellow PC enthusiast! (tl;dr at the bottom) First off thank you for clicking on my thread, because I'll be needing any and all help I can get and any info at all would be great. Okay so I was browsing a certain popular New Zealand auction site and I found a deal. The deal was for a Radeon HD 7970 $30 NZD, faulty. So I decided to take it upon myself to repair it. I am already running a Gigabyte Windforce GTX 670. I have never repaired a GPU before so I am pretty much a level 0 noob at repairing this type of thing. But I am %110 willing to learn. I've made an imgur album with all the pictures, and don't worry there is no such thing as a potato quality camera on the Note 4. The guy I brought it from stated that.. "Found out that the previous owner had baked it but didn't know what he was doing as he most likely left it in there a bit too long. I would think about 2-3 hours and a steady hand to resolder some of the components down and you would be good to go" Once I received the GPU I put in my system and powered it on only to find that the fans spin, the logo shines bright and it doesn't display. So the dude who sold it to me was an honest one and didn't sell me a completely dead GPU only to say no refunds, thank the non-existent god I don't believe in. I have taken apart GPUs in the past to clean/reapply thermal paste so it was a relatively easy process. Upon first glance I saw no exploded capacitors or burnt out microchips. I took off a metal cooling bracket to find the problem. A series of small silver microchips had become de soldered, I guess when the previous owner put it in the oven. My guess is that that the chips solder melted and due to the placement of the GPU fans down they came slightly away from the board. Thus making it even more dead. Any help would greatly be appreciated. If you've gotten this far thanks for reading my post. Leave a comment with your thoughts. Links: GPU Specs: https://www.cnet.com/products/sapphire-vapor-x-hd-7970-ghz-edition-graphics-card-radeon-hd-7970-6-gb/specs/ Imgur Album:http://imgur.com/a/IhhkC Tl:Dr Microchips on the board have been heated up in the past. The have fallen off, how do I re solder them back on/ check to see if they still work?
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Ok so im planning a new build just because i paid an incredible price for mine and i found some even better deals. HOWEVER i have a big problem. My beloved first upgrade has stabbed me in the back. I got a good quality 450W PSU with 33A in the 12V rail. But i found a 7970 With a Phenom ii X6 a motherboard and 8gb of ram for what would be about 120 us dollars doing some quick conversions. My question is can this little PSU handle this system? I intend to be doing just very mild overclocking (CPU 2.8 to ~3.2 and the GPU to 1GHz.)
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Hi guys, I'm looking to upgrade my Sapphire 7970 Dual x. I'm still rocking 1080p, the 7970 is doing quite fine, but it's starting to show its age. FYI, I have an i5-4670k on a Z87-D3HP. Now, I've narrowed it down to the 980ti, 1070 and FuryX, All 3 of them are around the 450 euro mark(including shipping). As games are becomig more demanding, I think that none of the above cards are "overkill" for 1080p, and I like a bit of future-proofing. Now, do you think that thr 4GB vram of the fury be a bottleneck? Since HBM is more efficient on higher resolutions(correct me if i am wrong). The 6GB/8GB of the 980ti/1070 is enough i believe, but what are your thoughts between the 2? Help me decide between the 3 please, unless there's another card that you believe it suits me better! Thanks, AJ. PS: Not really related to the above, but I'm also moving my pc into a computer desk, similar to the one Linus is currently building, let me know what you think of it(see attached photo)
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My first coupld graphics cards were 2 Radeon 7970's. They look brand new and were just cleaned. I have the box, papers, cables, crossfire bridges, anti-static packaging. How much would you try and sell each of them for?
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Hey so im here today to ask a few questions about benchmarks versus my 2 MSI Twin Frozr iii 7970 3gb GPU's and a modern 2015-16 GPU. Im mainly curious to see how these 2012 GPU's still hold their ground. Ive bought this PC for 450 cash from a guy that needed money. It had a older Silver Stone case so i upgraded that, threw a RGB Led kit in it, new wifi card since the old one was a little dated, and a Coirsair H60 AiO water cooler for the Intel core i7 4770, also has 16gb Gskill ram, 3tb HDD, 250gb SSD m.2 sata, and a Coirsair TX750. With any questions or concerns please comment or message me on Steam: THC Graypst and Skype: deerhunter755
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Hello there, I am a long time Linux user but recently updated my old GTS450 Video Card to an HD7970 (I know, still old tech but I can't afford more than that for a while!) Wish I knew what I was getting into before I did the switch... Driver support for this card is a nightmare on Ubuntu Linux. fglrx works great but I need at least Ubuntu 16.04 for some stuff I do and support for this driver has been dropped after Ubuntu 14.04 Stock drivers on 16.04 are horrible, can't run anything at more than 12-15fps (runs nicely above 60 fps in Win7) amdgpu-pro driver... can't get it to work.. whatever I do, it just won't do more than 2d and if it does 3d, it seems like the card can't ramp-up clock (stays on low power mode I think) If you guys (and girls) have a winning solution for this card under linux, please tell me what you did! Google is getting tired from my queries related to this GPU on Linux! BTW, I am in the process of updating my LTS 16.04 Ubuntu to the 17.04 then 17.10 for the new MESA drivers and Wayland thing... Also for the new features preview of 18.04. Thanks. -
Hello everyone, I am mining cryptocurrency on a spare computer and I'm running into some issues with the driver. Whenever I try to start up the AMD Radeon Settings program, I get the error "No AMD Graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly. Please install the AMD driver appropriate for your AMD hardware." Now this is causing an issue because my GPU's keep overheating and shutting off to protect the computer. I tried to install a couple tweaking tools like MSI Afterburner so that I could set a lower power target and reduce the load and heat on the GPU, but none of these softwares will work since the AMD drivers appear to not be working correctly so I can't adjust any of the settings to prevent the computer from overheating. This is my parts list: Windows 7 SP1 AMD FX 8150 CPU Asus M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard 2 x MSI Radeon HD 7970's connected using a 16x to 1x riser. 4Gb DDR3 RAM Driver is Radeon Crimson 15.02, but I have tried latest. Neither work. I have tried booting into safe mode and using DDU to uninstall the drivers and then reinstall them, but I keep running into the same error message. What other options do I have to get the drivers working so I can stop the system from crashing?
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So i've just got a used asus 7970 dcuii top card. always wanted a proper triple slot card. now i got one. but it has a weird quirk where it will only show video through its dvi connectors. i tried all its displayport ports with multiple cables and monitors, they just refuse to output to my 4k monitor. i'm resorting to an old dell 2560 x 1600 monitor that i had laying around. that's good enough for me. but why won't the card do displayport? i tested the monitor on a much less powerful 7770 and it worked perfectly fine with its displayport. do i need to update vbios or is there a switch on the card to let it do displayport 4k60? any help would be nice. the 7970 is a temporary card to hold me off until i can afford an amd rx vega card. so i can deal with the smaller display for a bit.
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Hello everyone. I've been using my current PC for a loooong time. It's got a i7 2600K and a 7970 graphics card. It still runs pretty well but I've been getting the urge to upgrade for a while now and I'm not sure if it's worth upgrading my CPU, or if I should just spend all that money on a good graphics card and get a 1440p monitor (I'm currently running 1080p). From what I can tell, the 2600K is starting to show its age but is still performing respectably in games. I'm looking to play the latest titles such as Rise of the Tomb Raider, the upcoming Battlefield game etc.
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Hello, The folding month is coming in very soon, and I’ve fired up a second system (just my test bench with 2 7970s) to help out. The problem is, I’m running on dated hardware (Q8200+ASUS P5B Deluxe). It isn’t bad or anything, but I have some unique problems. The first GPU is fine, performing normally. The second is... running at PCIe 2.0 speeds on a 2x connection. This is because the only way for me to get internet access on this thing (it’s in a remote spot because, heat) is to use a PCIe WiFi adapter, and the only way to do that is to use a riser on the 1x slot and use the GPU at 2x speeds. I was planning on overclocking the CPU and maybe the GPU, but that does not help the 2x problem. Would it be better to use a third system with the other 7970 and a weaker CPU or just keep the ASUS? Thanks. -
I am thinking of buying a cheap 7970 second-hand. The TDP is <225W. I know that pci 1.x gives 75 watts, and an 8 pin connector gives 150 watts. adding that up gives 225 watts. I want to know if the 6+2 pin connector is exactly equivalent to an 8pin in terms of wattage, and if having 225W to a 225W tdp card is safe or risking it. I can buy a molex to 6-pin if it is necessary, I just don't know if it is necessary. My PSU is an FSP 400W 80plus Silver. Do you think this is sufficient?
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Hi friends. Me again. I think I found out why my PC keeps shutting down but I'm not sure. I have a Corsair VS650 PSU, which worked perfectly fine with my old GTX580. But now with my 7970, which SHOULD be less power hungry the system keeps shutting down unless I turn down the clockspeeds. Is my PSU going bad or is the 7970 just too power hungry at its stock1050MHZ core/ 1500MHZ mem speeds?
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Hi Basically I noticed a huge frame drop on fortnite after playing a bit. Usually I get like 120-200 fps and after playing like some time (not constant, seems to happen at random times) the frames drop to unplayable 40 fps. I'm pretty sure the gpu core clock has something to do with it. Since I'm running a 7970 ghz edition it's core clock should be 1000. But if I had afterburner and gpuz opened, both told me that whenever my frames dropped to 40 the core clock also dropped to 501 mhz and it never goes back up again. I've tried uninstalling msi afterburner and reinstalling video drivers. I've also tried messing around with different game settings but nothing seems to work as of now. I don't understand how the core clock can be locked at such a low speed, is it thermal throttling (the thermals get up to 97 degrees and it's locked at 100% usage) or something else? Tweaking the clock speed in afterburner also doesn't make a difference (the actual clock speed doesn't change regardless of what I'm setting it to). Any information would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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Hello! I have problem with my AMD radeon 7970 GPU. Every time when i try to test my gpu with furmark for 5-10 mins and i click on X button (closing furmark) my pc freezes. No Bluescreen, just simple freeze.. and it's happen when i playing games like PUBG, opening doors, checking inventory, goin to settings menu, so every time when GPU is on high load and the screen changing fast. Temps okay: Its hit 70celsius on 100%load with a accelero xtreme 280x cooler. What i tried: Software: Tested on win7 Tested on win8.1 Tested on win10 Tested with AMD official driver Tested with windows installed driver Tested with the original GPU bios because i noticed somebody installed another one. Tested with Upgraded Mobo bios Tried to get some info from Windows event viewer but its show nothing happened. Hardware: Tested with other RAMs Tested on Cheftec APS650SB and Corsair cx600 PSU Tested with a HD7870 GPU and with this gpu everything was fine. Tested in a another PC, i has the same problem. My PC: CPU: FX8350 GPU: AMD Radeon 7970 RAM: 2x 8gb Hyperx Fury 1600mhz MOBO: Asrock 980DE3/U3S3 with 2.0 bios PSU: Corsair CX600 I have no idea whats the problem with my GPU, pls help my find out. (Any tip can help) Thanks for the answers and sorry for my bad english. -
Is it worth 400 CAD i3-7100 3.9 GHz CPU 4 GB DDR4 Radeon HD 7970 3 Gb ASUS H110M-C Micromax motherboard 160 GB + 1 TB hard drives 64 bit Windows 10 Hi-speed WiFi card Wireless keyboard + mouse Or 300 CAD for GTX 960 8gb ram 15 4460 960 gb of space. Psu and case
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Hey everyone, So I'm trying to diagnose my friend's card here, because it acts like it's dying. After he updated the drivers on his machine (23. January 2018), it started acting crazy. TL;DR: Something triggered a card into unusable artifacting (drivers / new game, no idea), most usual remedies tried, swapped into a system with basically the same card and older drivers that work, no success System specs: Friend's: i5-3570K stock, MSI Z77A-G45, Seasonic X Series 650, RAM unknown (I can find out), Win8.1 64bit Mine's in the signature below, runs Win7 Ultimate 64bit First encounter was on a game "Escape from Tarkov", game loaded, card under full load, in game FPS 1-4. After he recovered from system shutdown it went like this: no video signal on boot, tried different PCIe slot, no difference after a few tries it booted fired up Kombustor, everything OK fired up a game -> blue / brown vertical lines, different games very similar like this ->https://imgur.com/KCcJZId apparently it did this mostly with newer, more demanding games Oh oh, he did roll-back the driver + full driver sweep with no luck. Alright, so I took it to test in my system, as I use the same GFX chip (HD7970-DC2T), with basically the same cooler. To note, I have not updated my drivers in a WHILE (Radeon Software info - Sep16). + Overview and Hardware My testing so far: under light load with core speeds 501-1050MHz and voltages 0.950-1.200V respectively (2D video playback with madVR advanced processing and rendering), temps around 60°C -> everything OK fired up MGS5: Phantom Pain -> went well for ~2mins -> white screen freeze -> few seconds after sound freeze -> hard boot-off no video once again, quick shut-down, power cycle PS upon boot-up I got this screen -> https://imgur.com/k7A2eAX crashed my whole system, had to go through BIOS setup, but here is an Afterburner Log tried lowering Memory Voltage (1600->1520 mV) & Memory Clock (6600->6000MHz) through GPU Tweak, ran the game again, froze with similar artifacts - but I recovered a log from GPU Tweak that's attached Soo I want to try a few things: Flash the BIOS first with an updated one, then modified with stock clocks and voltages, first on the VRAM as I've heard the factory overvoltage can cause artifacts when VRAM gets too hot. I can't see any VRAM temp readouts on this card in Aida64 though.... I can on mine. Edit: Found the other temps in GPU Tweak, I'll need to setup a log I can comprehend and get them to OSD somehow. In comparison, I know my card artifacts occasionally, but it's minor (Pictures 1, 2 & 3) and can be fixed with a simple reboot. Same drivers, nothing like this. If it's a VRAM issue, I'll look into identifying which VRAM chips might need replacing. Thanks for any suggestions! MONITOR_Card1(20180215013920).log -
I have Asus 7970 DC2 ...and have few questions in my mind. So my temps are about 60 C at runing Heaven Benchmark 4.0 at Extreme settings , fans at 50% , idle are about 25-30 C (i count minor browsing and searching web as idle), when not used at all temps are at 20-25 C . I am measuring with MSI Afterurner and/or with Asus Tweak II . Are those temps fine and what would be stable OC for this card with fans runing at most 60% (beyond that its like my friends mining rig). I replaced thermal pads and thermal paste 2 hours ago and cleaned the card/fans/heatsink.
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Hey guys, so i was updating my rig with a 2nd Sapphire HD7970 ghz and i was sure everything was fitting and fine but then BOOM the standart cooler is just to big both cards dont fit together...so now i was thinking about getting a cooler which would be a little flatter but since the card is kinda old and height is not really a thing you find in german computer store when looking for coolers I am kinda lost... I was thinking about the NZXT or the Corsair CPU watercooler to GPU thing but i dont know if its really going to be much smaller. I hope somebody has an idea for any kind of cooler that would fit. My speccs are: Intel I5 3570k with Scythe Grand Karma Cross II 16gb Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz Corsair RM850i Asrock z77 Extreme 4-M (yeah might've slacked on the "M" version but Asrock stated both version have the same PCI-E layout) and 2x Sapphire HD7970 ghz Vapor X I hope someone has a solution i was really hoping to run a kinda old school Xfire build. Thanks in advance! ;D
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Hi, after I boot into windows the screen goes black, one of the fans is not spinning and the other one starts to spin at full speed. Is this happening because of the fan not working? I have changed the gpu's termal paste and I don't see any signs of burn or dead capacitors. I tested it with other gpu and it works fine My system specs are: i5-4460 2x4gb ddr3 Deepcool DA-500M PSU HD7970 Vapor-x
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AMD Crossfire problems on dual 7970's with Crimson drivers.
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PLEASE HELP! I've asked this question ages ago but nobody responded so I was forced to revert back to pre-crimson drivers. I've since upgraded to Win10 and pre-crimson no longer work. I am having serious issues that make it impossible to game on my current setup with my AMD cards. For a while (4 months+) i've had to remain on pre-crimson drivers (15.11) because I was having the same problem. Most full screen games like Rocket League and Counter Strike Global Offensive launch but the screen flickers as if it was alt tabbing in and out. The problem only exists when in crossfire mode from what I can tell. Please help, I don't know what else to do. If I can't figure something out I will have no choice but to revert back to windows 8 and amd 15.11 drivers... and that would be a nightmare. Important System Information : Display 1 : 1920x1080 @ 68hz Display 2 : 1440x900 @ 60hz Display 3 : 1366x768 @ 60hz 2x HD7970 GHZ Edition's in crossfire Windows 10 Pro 64x AMD FX 8350 What i've tried : Enable/disable Vsync Enable/disable Frame pacing Uninstall/Reinstall AMD drivers Disable all secondary monitors -
So Last night my MSI R7970 Lightning Edition took its last breath of fresh air from its original Twin Frozer IV fans. I was doing some editing in "Scetch up" and all of a sudden I herd a loud rattle/buzzing coming from my GPU. I turned the system off to find that somehow TWO of the fan blades had broken off! I have never herd of or seen a card do something like that. One might think Saizeo its a card from 2012 its not going to be perfect after all this time. but that's simply crazy. Anyhow now I am in need a new cooling solution. I was looking for the fans and could not find them around. I saw the NZXT G10 is compatible with the reference 7970 but i'm not sure about the Lightning. If any one has information about Aftermarket replacement fans or another Cooling solution I would greatly appreciate it.
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What would you pay for a HD 7970? I found what I think is a pretty good deal for 7970's on Craigslist. There's 10 3GB XFX cards at $100 each with a "discount for purchasing multiple". I was thinking I could maybe buy a couple to sell on Ebay or something, but I wanted to know how much they're actually worth to know whether that idea's worth my time.
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