7970 and MSI afterburner: Working as intended??

[blackened23]

I'm just curious here, for some reason my benchmarks with an overclock activated with sapphire trixx and afterburner closed -- are higher than benchmarks with only using afterburner, trixx closed.

This leads me to believe something is wrong and it is either not applying proper vdroop and/or gpu clocks. I also notice that my temps ramp up faster using MSI afterburner? Which is strange, because GPU clocks are reported by both to be roughly the same.

I haven't delved that far into it, but sapphire trixx seems more reliable. Anyone else notice this?

 

[RavenSEAL]

Did you read the patch notes to see if the program supports the card yet?

 

[blackened23]

I'm also noticing high overclocks are more stable with trixx. Also, with afterburner -- my temps take FOREVER to ramp down after high gpu load, whereas with trixx it goes down very quickly. I'm guessing that Trixx is applying vdroop properly and afterburner isn't?

I have no answers yet, but trixx definitely seems more reliable/stable.

Just for whatever its worth to other 7970 owners -- trixx seems the way to go until MSI works their software out.

 

[blackened23]

Did you read the patch notes to see if the program supports the card yet?

Yes, its in beta. (version 2.2 release 10) It definitely doesn't seem as stable as trixx.