Good or not ?!

[milanvipa]

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. 


 

[ricksteendam1]

those temps are fine. overclocking depends mostly on the card but I would aim at 80 degrees max

[milanvipa]

13 minutes ago, ricksteendam1 said:

those temps are fine. overclocking depends mostly on the card but I would aim at 80 degrees max

yeah...but freq ?  GPU overall is awesome...Far Cry Primal all maxed out zero stuter.. smooth af on 1080p tho. 

[Tech Wizard]

1 minute ago, milanvipa said:

yeah...but freq ?  GPU overall is awesome...Far Cry Primal all maxed out zero stuter.. smooth af on 1080p tho. 

Try increments by +25 on the core while running Heaven looped windowed. Keep increasing by 25 untill you crash. When you found the frequency you crashed at, I would -30MHz and do a longer stability check. After you found your sweet spot for core, do the same with memory in increments of 50.

[milanvipa]

Just now, Tech Wizard said:

Try increments by +25 on the core while running Heaven looped windowed. Keep increasing by 25 untill you crash. When you found the frequency you crashed at, I would -30MHz and do a longer stability check. After you found your sweet spot for core, do the same with memory in increments of 50.

Will do as you mentioned above . Posting results later. 

[Tech Wizard]

Just now, milanvipa said:

Will do as you mentioned above . Posting results later. 

Good luck. Remember you can also set up a custom fan profile in MSI Afterburner, making for example the fans spin 55 % at 60celsius & 60 % at 75celsius etc... U get what I mean.

[milanvipa]

Just now, Tech Wizard said:

Good luck. Remember you can also set up a custom fan profile in MSI Afterburner, making for example the fans spin 55 % at 60celsius & 60 % at 75celsius etc... U get what I mean.

Yes, i made fan curve for auto...but kinda i like manual control over it...when i game i boost fans to like 60% and when at idle 40% ...card is cool and noise levels acceptable.

[milanvipa]

19 minutes ago, Tech Wizard said:

Good luck. Remember you can also set up a custom fan profile in MSI Afterburner, making for example the fans spin 55 % at 60celsius & 60 % at 75celsius etc... U get what I mean.

Did it, and ran it with  Heaven Benchmark 4.0 and Valley Benchmark 1.0 all on extra 1080p . Temps go to 67 C max .Afraid to go with Furmark since i burned 2 cards with it LoL  Should i add more voltage ? BTW fans at 60% 

[Tech Wizard]

1 minute ago, milanvipa said:

Did it, and ran it with  Heaven Benchmark 4.0 and Valley Benchmark 1.0 all on extra 1080p . Temps go to 67 C max .Afraid to go with Furmark since i burned 2 cards with it LoL  Should i add more voltage ? BTW fans at 60% 

So judging by this picture, you crashed at around 1.2GHz? 1160MHz core is a very respectable overclock for this card. I would stress test via Heaven, let it loop for an hour or something to see if it crashes or not. Another way of testing is just playing. Fire up some of your favorite games for a couple of hours, and see if you crash/display stops working. If you crash during a longer session of Heaven/gaming, it means that the overclock is not 100 % stable, and you have to reduce with for example 15MHz.

Another way is actually adding more voltage. If you max out the voltage slider in Afterburner, that 1.2GHz core clock attempt that crashed might be stable. It's up to you if you want to add more voltage or not, but remember: More voltage = more heat. I wouldn't do it unless you know what you are doing. If you're replacing the card in less than a year, sure why not. Better get all the performance u can while it lasts.

 

Furmark is not even a stability test for GPUs. It's literally meant to just torture the GPU for max temperatures.

[Parideboy]

Don't use furmark, just don't

[milanvipa]

6 minutes ago, Tech Wizard said:

So judging by this picture, you crashed at around 1.2GHz? 1160MHz core is a very respectable overclock for this card. I would stress test via Heaven, let it loop for an hour or something to see if it crashes or not. Another way of testing is just playing. Fire up some of your favorite games for a couple of hours, and see if you crash/display stops working. If you crash during a longer session of Heaven/gaming, it means that the overclock is not 100 % stable, and you have to reduce with for example 15MHz.

Another way is actually adding more voltage. If you max out the voltage slider in Afterburner, that 1.2GHz core clock attempt that crashed might be stable. It's up to you if you want to add more voltage or not, but remember: More voltage = more heat. I wouldn't do it unless you know what you are doing. If you're replacing the card in less than a year, sure why not. Better get all the performance u can while it lasts.

 

Furmark is not even a stability test for GPUs. It's literally meant to just torture the GPU for max temperatures.

Thanks for your quick reply's , you helped me a lot. Since i replyed here i went on Far Cry Primal session , temps went to 70 C, game smooth . I will bump fan speed to 70% and see results . But for now seems stable  Thanks a lot. 

 

 

5 minutes ago, Parideboy said:

Don't use furmark, just don't

Oh i wont I wasted old 6990 and gtx 560 with Furmark. Wont do same mistake again

[Tech Wizard]

1 minute ago, milanvipa said:

Thanks for your quick reply's , you helped me a lot. Since i replyed here i went on Far Cry Primal session , temps went to 70 C, game smooth . I will bump fan speed to 70% and see results . But for now seems stable  Thanks a lot. 

 

 

Oh i wont I wasted old 6990 and gtx 560 with Furmark. Wont do same mistake again

Keep playing for an hour or so, and do a Heaven loop for 30 min at least. If you don't crash, you can:

1. Give the card more voltage & power to push high clocks (keep in mind you will have to re-do stability tests with higher clocks/other settings
2. If you don't want to push higher voltage/clocks, you can move on to memory overclocking in +50 increments untill you crash. When you find your crash, -80 from where you crashed and do a longer stability test again. Good luck