Hi guys,
I got a new Pc with a sapphire 5970 a few weeks ago, the PC worked fine, but i noticed it crashing after closing games. So i read it up, and found out quite a few 5970's have this problem.
The general soloution is supposedly OCing the card, so it's 2d clocks are high enough be stable, though this voids your warranty. So i decided to RMA it, thinking they wouldnt ship out requiring an OC.
Got an OC version as a replacement, and it had the exact same problem, so i OC'ed it, didnt help. The Fix i've currently got is having a really small furmark constantly running while not gaming, till now its worked fine. Problem is that right now furmark even at 50x50 resoloutions uses up 25% of the cpu, and the card is rather loud while surfing/watching movies (and i guess its using like 50watts more than it should idle at).
so my questions are;
Was i super unlucky and got 2 faulty cards, or is it standard procedure to OC 5970's(which i can't believe), if so should i rma it?
and if i cant find an awnser to that, anyone know of simpler 3d rendering programs i can have running in the background that dont use as much power as furmark, & prefferably not a game, its nice having a furmark .bat in the startup.
sry for my bad english, havn't written in years.
I got a new Pc with a sapphire 5970 a few weeks ago, the PC worked fine, but i noticed it crashing after closing games. So i read it up, and found out quite a few 5970's have this problem.
The general soloution is supposedly OCing the card, so it's 2d clocks are high enough be stable, though this voids your warranty. So i decided to RMA it, thinking they wouldnt ship out requiring an OC.
Got an OC version as a replacement, and it had the exact same problem, so i OC'ed it, didnt help. The Fix i've currently got is having a really small furmark constantly running while not gaming, till now its worked fine. Problem is that right now furmark even at 50x50 resoloutions uses up 25% of the cpu, and the card is rather loud while surfing/watching movies (and i guess its using like 50watts more than it should idle at).
so my questions are;
Was i super unlucky and got 2 faulty cards, or is it standard procedure to OC 5970's(which i can't believe), if so should i rma it?
and if i cant find an awnser to that, anyone know of simpler 3d rendering programs i can have running in the background that dont use as much power as furmark, & prefferably not a game, its nice having a furmark .bat in the startup.
sry for my bad english, havn't written in years.
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