VaporX 7970Ghz

[sze5003]

Wanted to know how this scored or if anything is weird to you guys?

Drivers 12.8

Gpu-z:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zw6vezcq5292zlv/gpuz.gif

Hnwinfo:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x0hs0eozw5gqmtx/Capture1.JPG

Heaven bench:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sxzkqe2a8jmusrv/Bench.JPG

So far the card is quite, didn't overclock yet. Have not tested for coil whine yet either.

 

[zaydq]

Seems kind of right, maybe just a tad bit low.

 

[sze5003]

Well the only coil whine I have is from Alan Wake Menu, none in game. Also, none in BF3 like I had with the previous HIS 7970.

Anything that I should mess with to make it higher? Or try 12.9 drivers? I put Antitrospic at x16 and normally it is at x4 in Heaven.

 

[3DVagabond]

The vapor x has solid chokes. The card shouldn't have coil whine. There are other things that can cause whining though. Electrical interference, cable shielding (or lack of), etc...

 

[sze5003]

The vapor x has solid chokes. The card shouldn't have coil whine. There are other things that can cause whining though. Electrical interference, cable shielding (or lack of), etc...

Well its only happenend in the game menu of Alan Wake and probably as soon as heaven 3 bench is exiting. I'll check make sure no cable is touching the card and see if there is anything else causing that.

Asic quality is low, 62.4% and I turned off flash acceleration and my heaven bench went up a little with avg fps of 45. Will need to mess with it more when I get home.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Seems about right to me. I just got the Windforce 7970 ghz (1100 MHz) and I scored 1240 with the same CPU and settings in Heaven.

 

[sze5003]

I wonder if it will go up with 12.9 drivers. I need time to sit and mess with overclocking. Messing with the fans they get loud after 40%. Sounds like a wind tunnel but I don't mind it and I don't turn them up that much. Setting them to 75% makes it sound like a Hoover haha.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I'm actually really happy with the Windforce. CCC for some reason turned the fans up to 100% the other day and it still wasn't LOUD like my old 6950 at 100%. I can hear it at 50%, but I setup a custom fan profile that keeps it below that with temps under 70, even after hours in Borderlands 2.

I need to check my ASIC.

 

[sze5003]

I'm actually really happy with the Windforce. CCC for some reason turned the fans up to 100% the other day and it still wasn't LOUD like my old 6950 at 100%. I can hear it at 50%, but I setup a custom fan profile that keeps it below that with temps under 70, even after hours in Borderlands 2.

I need to check my ASIC.

The last 7970 card I had was an asic of 52 or something. Take that with a grain of salt. I need to try out borderlands 1 and some other games. Alan wake seemed choppy and in the beginning of the game, his wife had little black things in her hair. I havent ever installed any updates to that game though.

 

[RussianSensation]

Press the BIOS button the card. In original BIOS, the GPU Boost is kicked in which means the card can fluctuate between 1000 and 1050mhz. With BIOS button on, it should force GPU load at 1050mhz at all times.

That Heaven score looks normal for 1-1.05ghz speed.

See if she can overclock to 1.15-1.20ghz. Also, I am having a hard time believing there would be coil whine from the GPU since it has solid core chokes. My guess is the PSU.

 

[sze5003]

Yeh the bios button is pressed. That's what I ran the bench with. Not sure why the PSU would whine when it has not before. But its not an extreme whine like before.

 

[sze5003]

Ok so I got the core clock to 1170 as stable and memory to 1770 but when I set both to these the monitor just turned gray with lines. Had to reboot to revcover.

Having both memory and core to these number does this. What should I lower to and is the card defective now?

 

[RussianSensation]

When you rebooted to stock speeds, is everything working fine? That sounds like your memory overclock was not stable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85sox46roxM

Your should overclock your GPU and memory separately and only after you have found maximums for each start figuring out the total combined maximum. Generally it would be lower than the individual maximums.

 

[sze5003]

Yeh I reset stock settings and it was fine I'm up to testing just core clock now at 1180 because at higher it gave me artifacts.

 

[sze5003]

Ok so I think I found a stable OC:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5xy43ktvdr24d3/Capture4.JPG

Was running this test for 20 minutes no artifacts.

Here is the Bench:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8i2n21rlg5iwjti/BenchOC1.JPG

I may try increasing gpu core to 1180 now and keeping the memory at 1580.

 

[Mezzanine]

Is your cpu stock or overclocked? I've got a 2500k and a 7950 and i'm just trying to do a comparison.

 

[dkm777]

How is the noise when running such an overclock? Like a vacuum cleaner? But I must admit - the Vapor-X makes for some beastly cooling. All that heat output and only 70 degrees!

 

[sze5003]

Is your cpu stock or overclocked? I've got a 2500k and a 7950 and i'm just trying to do a comparison.

My CPU is stock speeds right now. I have not bought a cooler yet to overclock it but I may do so later.

How is the noise when running such an overclock? Like a vacuum cleaner? But I must admit - the Vapor-X makes for some beastly cooling. All that heat output and only 70 degrees!

I thought 70 was pretty hot. I guess not then. If you leave the fans on auto, you can tell fan speed was at 59% and you can deffinately hear it. It doesn't bother me much its like having a small house fan on low.

The issue last post must have been due to bad memory clock as Russian said. Hopefully I didn't screw anything up as this was my first overclocking. I didn't overvolt since trixx didn't let me and I wasn't familiar with bolting.

The hardest part is waiting for 10-15 staring at the screen for artifacts.

 

[lehtv]

Well the only coil whine I have is from Alan Wake Menu

Enable vsync. Your framerate in the menu is several thousand fps

 

[sze5003]

Yeh I could do that, its mainly in menus but Im not on there long enough and its not as bad as it was with the last card.

 

[RussianSensation]

I just don't understand how this card is coil whining on you. I am still leaning towards that Corsair PSU doing it. All the chokes are solid core. Where would the coil whine come from on the card?

70*C is perfectly fine. Even 85*C is fine. If the fan is too loud, you can try turning it down to 45% with a custom fan curve in MSi Afterburner. I bet your temperatures will rise to only 75-76*C.

 

[sze5003]

I just don't understand how this card is coil whining on you. I am still leaning towards that Corsair PSU doing it. All the chokes are solid core. Where would the coil whine come from on the card?

70*C is perfectly fine. Even 85*C is fine. If the fan is too loud, you can try turning it down to 45% with a custom fan curve in MSi Afterburner. I bet your temperatures will rise to only 75-76*C.

I am wondering the same. I don't have another PSU to try though. The last card did it in game, this one only on menus.

I don't think ill take the memory any higher. Also any reason why MSI afterburner 2.24 won't let me change my core gpu clock and anything other than the fans?

I did the edit cfg file and nothing. I'm wondering how much higher I can go while stable.

 

[Rvenger]

Coil whine is inevitable on highend GPUs. Get a better insulated case if you want to mask some noise.

 

[sze5003]

Unfortunately I just bought this case hah.