7970 plz

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Bios flashing IS a thing - look on techpowerup's database of bioses. IIRC there was a rather high clocked Asus one. Just be careful if you don't have a bios switch

Assuming the little switch on the side of card is the bios switch?

If so, could it be as simple as using custom bios with the other bios?

Or has asus put some more "free" second bios to the card? :DD

[don_svetlio]

Assuming the little switch on the side of card is the bios switch?

If so, could it be as simple as using custom bios with the other bios?

Or has asus put some more "free" second bios to the card? :DD

I believe it's for switching to the 2nd bios IIRC.

[Guest]

After further investigation, i have come to the conclusion, this is the non -TOP model, the TOP model being better binned and higher clocked/r (925Mhz vs 1000Mhz base clock)

and the fact that i have really bad luck what it comes to silicon lottery

 

Edit; now i'm having a break with my lovely pitza

Edited August 15, 2015 by EbinNator2044

[don_svetlio]

After further investigation, i have come to the conclusion, this is the non -TOP model, the TOP model being better binned and higher clocked/r (925Mhz vs 1000Mhz base clock)

and the fact that i have really bad luck what it comes to silicon lottery

TOP cards are indeed better OCers since they have a higher base. Still, 1000/1500 is very respectable since 1500 memory is what SK Hynix have stated as the max for that memory and 1GHz is fine IMO.

[Guest]

TOP cards are indeed better OCers since they have a higher base. Still, 1000/1500 is very respectable since 1500 memory is what SK Hynix have stated as the max for that memory and 1GHz is fine IMO.

oh well, i tried to oc the memory, 1575, maxed slider on overdrive, no artifact's etc on valley at ultra fulllscreen 1920x1080

[don_svetlio]

oh well, i tried to oc the memory, 1575, maxed slider on overdrive, no artifact's etc on valley at ultra fulllscreen 1920x1080

Then consider yourself lucky in that regard

[Guest]

Then consider yourself lucky in that regard

Hmmm not yet, tried Battlefield 4 test range on ultra preset, getting these weird gpu utilization issue, where it drops to 30% and jumps back up, creating this 1-2 sec freeze time-.-

 

 

This was not an issue with 1000/1500 setting's

 

Edit#2 this just might be bf4's own issues

hmm, now the bf4 wont start again and battlelog says wait for the game to exit, no sign of orgin/bf4 in task manager :DDD this is starting to be an really twisted thread?

Edited August 15, 2015 by EbinNator2044

[don_svetlio]

Hmmm not yet, tried Battlefield 4 test range on ultra preset, getting these weird gpu utilization issue, where it drops to 30% and jumps back up, creating this 1-2 sec freeze time-.-

 

 

This was not an issue with 1000/1500 setting's

Set it to 1500 if you ask me. 250 GB/s is already overkill in terms of memory bandwidth for our cards.

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Set it to 1500 if you ask me. 250 GB/s is already overkill in terms of memory bandwidth for our cards.

hmm, now that the bf4 worked for once, no artifact's nor lag, on ultra ofc

 

seems stable for me, even on furmark no problemo

[don_svetlio]

hmm, now that the bf4 worked for once, no artifact's nor lag, on ultra ofc

 

seems stable for me, even on furmark no problemo

Btw, how long do you usually run furmark? It was once ran for 50 mins here and I'm scared it might have done damage

[Guest]

%3

[don_svetlio]

once i oc'd my core to 1000 i ran it for about 10mins? just to see the temperature's stable and no artif. etc, but after that i usually just play bf4 since it's more "real world" work load for gpu

 

Well if the temp's were not exceeding the limit's then no dmg done

 

Well the way i see it(kinda like), it's like driving older 'murica car and going to highway to test it at higher speed's to "clean" the motor

Hah, yeah, I guess. For 15 mins it got to about 74*C, not sure after that tho. Probably maxed out at 80*C.

[Guest]

Well, temps just probaply keep rising if your room isn't well ventalated and if you dont have proper airflow on your case

Btw 80 is perfectly safe from that kind of load

[don_svetlio]

Well, temps just probaply keep rising if your room isn't well ventalated and if you dont have proper airflow on your case

Btw 80 is perfectly safe from that kind of load

It was on an open case IIRC. I was most afraid since my VRM temps went up by 4*C right around that time but I'm not entirely sure it's done damage.

[Guest]

It was on an open case IIRC. I was most afraid since my VRM temps went up by 4*C right around that time but I'm not entirely sure it's done damage.

Might just be that the heat kinda messed with the heat pads (dont remember the real name now:D)

[don_svetlio]

Might just be that the heat kinda messed with the heat pads (dont remember the real name now:D)

Oh, true, thermal pads might have gotten more than they can chew. But the card didn't do a thermal shutdown and I haven't noticed crashing/degraded performance and IIRC CCC detects furmark as a power virus and throttles it.