XFX DD radeon 7970 ghz wont overclock 1 mhz

[Paavan]

I understand some cards are bad overclockers, and others are great, but my video card literally can't handle a 0.1% overclock, which leads me to believe that something is faulty. I've used CCC, and MSI afterburner, but to no success. The card is stable at 1150 and 1600 in furmark, but when I start a game it crashes in a few seconds. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Psu: cm gx750

MB: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1tb

CPU: Phenom 2 x4 965 at 4Ghz

 

[Godlygamer23]

Some GPUs can not even overclock by 1MHz.

[Morpheus]

that's like having a Ferrari that can't go over 100km/h lol sucks dude 

[Lays]

Have you tried using diff drivers? could be an issue there too.

[RuecanOnRails]

Leave it at stock settings, and run some very gpu intensive stress tests. If it becomes unstable at all, you can RMA it.

 

Furmark, or try setting it to fold or mine bitcoin.

 

 

Unless the card is proven to be unstable at stock speeds you cannot return it.

[Paavan]

can I return it for heavy coil whine, because it has that in load screens, but for some reason, its not even audible when gaming

[Commissar]

the voltage is locked. only the BE (of the XFX line) has unlocked voltage....

[Commissar]

can I return it for heavy coil whine, because it has that in load screens, but for some reason, its not even audible when gaming

that's ur hard drive, not your gpu...

[FranBunnyFFXII]

I understand some cards are bad overclockers, and others are great, but my video card literally can't handle a 0.1% overclock, which leads me to believe that something is faulty. I've used CCC, and MSI afterburner, but to no success. The card is stable at 1150 and 1600 in furmark, but when I start a game it crashes in a few seconds. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Psu: cm gx750

MB: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1tb

CPU: Phenom 2 x4 965 at 4Ghz

Furmark, combuster, heaven, 3dmark, ect are not valid stability tests for overclocks. They can point to a stability problem but the real stability tests are games that load the GPU in certain ways. like IE a source game using physics, battlefield3 that can max out your gpu usage, or a highly cpu compute heavy game such as TERA or vindictus which uses GPU load in different varying levels that load different parts of the GPU which test the stability of the overclock.

I'm not sure why the card can't OC beyond stock, even my mobile alienware card can push 920mhz(base is 850mhz) without overvoltage, I suspect there's something wrong with the GPU itself, you probably got a bad card where the chip was at the very edge of the wafer. while it runs fine at stock, touching it's controls is probably throwing it out of whack. I'd try to find some way to return it or RMA it.