HIS IceQ X2 7970 Testing

[RussianSensation]

Great! Whatever card you get, can you please update this thread so we know you are happier with the new card

 

[Borkil]

i think something is wrong with my 7970. i'm playing crysis 1 on very high + 4xAA and i'm topping out at 20 fps.... what's going on??

res 1920x1200
HIS 7970 iceq x2 stock clocks
2500k @ 4 GHz
12 Gb of ram

 

[Rvenger]

I was surpised that I was scrolling and it sounded like a mouse in my case. Screech, screech each scroll up or down. Thank god Newegg took the HIS ticket number and is refunding me.

I would rather have a 7970 than a 7950 otherwise it would just be going towards the 670. So I think I will look at the Vapor X 7970 GE and MSI Lightning.

If you are getting screeching during web browsing then that would be my limit IMO. I had a dual-x 7970 that did the same... I RMA'd that the 2nd day I had it. I just got another GTX 670 and it has absolutely no coilwhine. I even went for the EVGA GTX 670 FTW LE.

 

[sze5003]

i think something is wrong with my 7970. i'm playing crysis 1 on very high + 4xAA and i'm topping out at 20 fps.... what's going on??

res 1920x1200
HIS 7970 iceq x2 stock clocks
2500k @ 4 GHz
12 Gb of ram

I noticed during bench marks that the card does not score very high. The secondary bios has nothing on it either. The card keeps cool and all but do yourself a favor and return it to Newegg. Trust me I went through talking to 3 Newegg reps, then HIS, then back to Newegg.

HIS did not even bother troubleshooting anymore. I believe they know the whine issue and how they said solid state chokes on the card when it really does not have them. They wanted me to ship it to California, then from there it would be shipped to China, diagnosed, sent back to California, then back to me.

Reading the bottom of that RMA pdf they sent me it said it would take about 30 days or so. I took all that information, copied it and showed it to the Newegg Representative.

He promptly issued be a UPS label, stated on the RMA ticket "No restocking fee". Got an email from newegg saying RMA was approved when he sent me all that information.

My card is on its way back to Newegg, should arrive early next week.
As for now, I'm looking for my replacement.

Crysis 2 is demanding but I had no issues playing the game with my 560Ti on the highest settings at 1080p. Not sure of the frames I was getting but it was playing smoothly. Not sure as I did not try Crysis 1, I kind of got bored of fighting Aliens lol.

 

[RussianSensation]

i think something is wrong with my 7970. i'm playing crysis 1 on very high + 4xAA and i'm topping out at 20 fps.... what's going on??

res 1920x1200
HIS 7970 iceq x2 stock clocks
2500k @ 4 GHz
12 Gb of ram

- Restart your system. Load MSI Afterburner at start up. Load HWInfo64 at startup. Now run Unigine Heaven 3.0 with 8xMSAA and Extreme tessellation while having HWInfo64 and MSI Afterburner open.
- Check 12V and 3.3V rail Minimum voltages in HWInfo64 after having run Unigine Heaven 3.0 bench test with 8xMSAA and Extreme tessellation (or Crysis 1 bench)
- Check GPU % load scaling and GPU clock speeds in MSI Afterburner quickly after you run Crysis 1 benchmark test 3 loops or Unigine Heaven. Check if your GPU was running at 925mhz @ 99% GPU load
- If you unlocked MSI Afterburner, your card may be fixed at 500mhz GPU clock accidentally (i.e., 2D clocks). This happens if you ran Adobe Flash video on the internet (YouTube) and have Adobe Flash hardware acceleration enabled. If you don't close the browser/tab, AMD 7000 series cards are often stuck at their 2D clocks with Adobe Flash acceleration enabled. You can disable this by right clicking a YouTube video and going into Settings and unchecking "Enable GPU hardware acceleration" or something similar.

I had this happen a couple of times when I got the 7970. I noticed my GPU chugging in games but I had my Google Chrome browser open and the GPU didn't reset back to full 1150mhz clocks. If you have Adobe Flash acceleration enabled on UVD2-3 AMD videocards, you may find yourself playing games @ 2D clocks without even knowing it. Even if you close all your Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome browsers, your modern AMD videocard can be indefinitely stuck @ 2D clock speeds in all videogames until a full PC restart without this fix:

I was running my GPU at 99% @ 500mhz in a Crysis 1 bench because of this UVD bug because I am too lazy to close my Internet browsers.

 

[ZimZum]

I was running my GPU at 99% @ 500mhz in a Crysis 1 bench because of this UVD bug because I am too lazy to close my Internet browsers.

http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/close-all.html

 

[sze5003]

http://www.ntwind.com/software/utilities/close-all.html

Haha that's a nifty program I suppose. I never had the hardware acceleration enabled in those adobe settings.