Posted January 8, 201213 yr Latest results are in the end of thread!!! Latest score is this: http://hwbot.org/submission/2253306_sf3d_3dmark11___performance_radeon_hd_7970_14791_marks Old post 08.01.2012 Hi! We had small oc event in north of Finland this weekend and I had some time to test 7970 card. I had huge amount of issues and I was very frustrated with the card. Powertune is giving serious scaling issues because more MHz there was, more crappy scores came out. Card was able to run 1600MHz, but there was no point to run full tests, cause performance was not correct. I will post my scores to hwbot database tomorrow. Here are the "best" runs. Unigine heaven was a joke, cause it did not scale at all with the clocks and 3dm11 was not correct either. I think Vantage is closest to normal performance. (HWB Unigine with 5GHz CPU) (3Dmark11 1.0.1 with 5GHz CPU) (Vantage with 5,6GHz CPU) Me and Atso (Asmola) will do some Quad Crossfire runs on Assembly winter 2012. We have good CPU now, so it will be fun. Edited February 12, 201213 yr by SF3D
January 8, 201213 yr Good CPU indeed, here my results with random retail 3930K! http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2188136 Quick test on 3DMark06 CPU test..
January 9, 201213 yr Author Wow that's one hell of 3930K! Need to put some work into 32m efficiency He did not bother yet Atso just tested how high he can get in raw mhz. I learned yesterday, that you need a lot more mods for the vga card (10?) and when screen goes black, it is still ok to run I did not want to run test with black screen, but next time I will try it. Info about the card: Voltages were 1.45V - 1.55V (1.57V ovp/ocp). Temperature -80C up to -150C (Black screen around -140/-150C) Normal asus bios, no special mods. Maybe it is better to wait non reference cards, so there is less issues.
January 9, 201213 yr Author nice cpu there, seems you guys had a lot of fun. Yes and having fun is the key in current situation. No stress, no worries, no haters, no scores.. haha!
January 9, 201213 yr Author Ok, figured out the OVP mod for these cards just a moment a go. 1.6V and 1500MHz was ok at -70C. I had only 2 liters of ln2 left, so I just quickly did some 20 seconds of 3dm11 GT1. I will need to pick up more ln2 to verify this mod. It is super easy, so anyone can figure it out in 2 minutes. If someone else want to share it, do so. I will wait until I know it wont kill your cards.
January 10, 201213 yr http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19200&postcount=69 shamino posted them.
January 10, 201213 yr Author Good. All mods could have been posted earlier, cause there was no real competition. But better late than never I think we will see very nice results in upcoming weeks. I will wait non reference cards though..
January 11, 201213 yr Wow that's one hell of 3930K! Need to put some work into 32m efficiency How about now? Tested little more yesterday, this was only score i was able to improve.. tomorrow with 7970!
January 12, 201213 yr try triplechannel for 32M good advice, but that is a sick score without it, great job Asmola.
February 9, 201213 yr Author I got my second HD 7970 card this week. It is better than previous one. Will do more serious attempts later with this. It was running 1700mhz through game tests but it crashed just in the beginning of combined test and that happened twice Then I run out of ln2 like so so many times before. I think this card can be pushed 1700MHz+ in assembly winter in few weeks and it will be paired with asmolas 3930K. http://hwbot.org/submission/2252033_sf3d_3dmark11___performance_radeon_hd_7970_14377_marks Edited February 9, 201213 yr by SF3D
February 10, 201213 yr Author 15K should be doable. I think this card just proofs, that some users have been binning many cards or they have been very lucky. No secret mods, no secret bios files. Just card + some experience and it is done.
February 10, 201213 yr That's a nice card for sure , not all cards can easily do 1600MHz+ well done Petri
February 10, 201213 yr Nice Petri, nice to see that you found one golden card! Your card + my 3930K @ +5,7GHz, 15k done?
February 10, 201213 yr Nice Petri, nice to see that you found one golden card! Your card + my 3930K @ +5,7GHz, 15k done? Hey man ... wanna pick my hardware too?
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