Water Cooled 7970 Overclock

[Jordan]

I just setup my watercooled 7970 and am ready to overclock it. its a reference XFX 7970. what tool is best for overclocking amd graphics cards? Ive used MSI afterburner in the past but never had much luck when ever I overclock even 20Mhz my BF3 becomes unstable... any help would be much appreciated.

 

 

Current specs:

CPU: AMD FX 8120 (4.4Ghz)

Ram: 16GB 2x8GB kit 

Motherboard: asus sabertooth 990FX (not the R2)

PSU: Ultra 1050W 80 plus silver

GPU: XFX 7970 3GB

 

 

[TechFan@ic]

The best by far is MSI Afterburner, so if you had no luck with it you probably won't have much luck with any other program.

[L.E.D]

I have seen a nice video card overclock guide, I will post it Here. It is a nice guide, be sure to read it over carefully, If you are not careful when overclocking your video card it can lead to bad things happening to it, 

 

Hope I helped

 

Nathan

[ChaoticWeaponry]

I just setup my watercooled 7970 and am ready to overclock it. its a reference XFX 7970. what tool is best for overclocking amd graphics cards? Ive used MSI afterburner in the past but never had much luck when ever I overclock even 20Mhz my BF3 becomes unstable... any help would be much appreciated.

 

 

Current specs:

CPU: AMD FX 8120 (4.4Ghz)

Ram: 16GB 2x8GB kit 

Motherboard: asus sabertooth 990FX (not the R2)

PSU: Ultra 1050W 80 plus silver

GPU: XFX 7970 3GB

MSI Afterburner. You need to change voltage for the card to maintain it's stability. Unlock voltage control in the settings and check extend official overclocking limits at the bottom.

 

EDIT - Your card may be voltage locked at the BIOS level, you may need to flash a different BIOS.

[bamerx98]

I just setup my watercooled 7970 and am ready to overclock it. its a reference XFX 7970. what tool is best for overclocking amd graphics cards? Ive used MSI afterburner in the past but never had much luck when ever I overclock even 20Mhz my BF3 becomes unstable... any help would be much appreciated.

 

 

Current specs:

CPU: AMD FX 8120 (4.4Ghz)

Ram: 16GB 2x8GB kit 

Motherboard: asus sabertooth 990FX (not the R2)

PSU: Ultra 1050W 80 plus silver

GPU: XFX 7970 3GB

I would unlock the voltage in afterburner and if you still can change the voltage its locked at a bios level lucky with the 7970 you should have no problem flashing a new bios because of the duel bios on the card 

Best of luck theres lots of great videos on youtube showing you how to flash a new bios to that card, 

Good luck with the overclocking 

[SeanC]

MSI afterburner is the easiest to use in my opinion. If you are having trouble with overclocks it's going to be your card. Hopefully you weren't that unlucky that you can barely get an extra 20mhz out of it. Make sure you are increasing the voltage, and that you are testing it in something like Heaven 4.0, not Furmark or Kombuster. If you can't flash a new BIOS onto your card. I haven't looked into it in a while and I'm not too sure whether it applied to the 7970 as well but the MSI LN2 bios has full voltage control and will allow you to get the most out of your card and since you are watercooled temps are not going to be an issue.

[killerx525]

You could try using EVGA Precision which i love the awesome looking UI.