[Official] AMD Radeon HD 7950/7970/7990 Owners Thread - Page 1528

What are your core and VRM temps under load . If temps are fine then don't bother. I have had that smell with the Geforce FX 5800 which I had a long time ago. No issues. worked fine for a couple of years after which I sold it off.

 

Max temps in BF3 playing for an hour never reach above 65c. The smell is VERY faint but you know its there. VRM temps dont go over 48-49c. This is all stock. I have not attempted an OC yet as I was worried about it. I did read that alot of people noticed it go away after a week or so. I just got it officially installed today. I ran it a day before my vacation which was the 25th and just finally got to sit and play today. The card has only been run for 2 days.

 

In less demanding games such as WoW my temps never reach above 60c and the VRMs stay the same

 

EDIT: what is a good aftermarket cooler for this thing that will keep my GPU cool AND my VRMs. Im kind of tired of the loud reference cooler.

Edited by 4LC4PON3 - 9/2/12 at 10:09pm

Well, got my 7970 boxed up for RMA. VRMs too hot, crashing at any speed.... just a pain. Gonna RMA it, then sell it off.

What are the best drivers to run? I have heard the 12.8s have issues is this true !?

 

I am having texture flickering issues right now with 12.8. I dont see this problem with 12.6s at all. I installed 12.8 this morning and its very clear with the texture flickering. I am more then likely going to revert back to either 12.4 or 12.6

Your VRM and core temps are very safe. what app are you using to monitor VRM temps. At what fan speed is your reference HD 7970 fan loud. I have a reference XFX HD 6950 and upto 50% fan speed its not loud. I play all games at that fan speed. I have had no issues with temps. mostly around 65 - 70c. I use HWinfo32 and in Furmark i hit 65c with the fan speed at 50% and VRM temps hit 49c . i run the benchmark preset 1080 with 8x MSAA which takes a little over a min . I don't run the Burn in.

i get terrible performance in BF3 all of a sudden. And i just re installed windows!! 3 times!!

I cant get playable frames on ultra... i get like 30FPS and my processor is at about 80% useage.

Im thinking about returning the card and just getting a 660ti


This is my first AMD experience. and its not looking good

what are your core and VRM temps. is your card overheating. it could behave erratic if that happens. try with 12.8 . if you have problems you could go for 12.6. my HD 6950 works fine with 12.8 .

Looking at all the benchmarks I was expecting 60FPS on BF3 on ultra but its not happening. I have the DualX 950Mhz edition from Sapphire and it reached 77* C in game. I dont know if thats good or bad.

I do have a tiny ITX case

EDIT::

Quick game of BF3 on Grand Bazzar and what would you know.....55+ FPS......after I installed 12.7 but CCC says 12.8 still and so does MSI AB.

Max GPU Temp 82* C

VRM 1: MAX 90*C

VRM 2: MAX 80*C

is that bad?
Edited by tx-jose - 9/3/12 at 12:20am

Gents. I was hoping I could get some feedback and comments on my experience.

I was in the mood for some Skyrim after reading about some of the cool mods available. I installed the game again from scratch, and then applied my mods, many of them graphical (I followed the S.T.E.P mod for those that care). As recommended for the mods I was using, I decided to update my drivers for my HD6970 as I had not done so for a few months.

I then started playing the game, and was disappointed that my FPS was hovering around the 20FPS mark. Unplayable for me. I assumed it was because of higher resolution textures, and extra post-processing effects of some of the mods I installed.

So, I decided to treat myself to a new video card. I was soon installing a new HD7970.

I did my best to completely remove the drivers, and reinstalled them. Everything seemed to be fine, but I launched the game, and still ~20FPS.

Dafaq?? There was literally 0% improvement. My 3930k i7 @ 4.8GHz wasn't the problem, surely.

After lookinging around for a bit, I noticed that in CCC, my GPU speed was staying at 500MHz, even when in game. I decided to manually force it to 925MHz, and tadaaa.... 40FPS.

I'm guessing the HD6970 had the same issue, as it was the same driver. I probably didn't need to upgrade at all.

Anyone else experience this, or something similar with 12.8?

I'm kinda angry.

TLDR:
•Installed 12.8 and new game
•Game was running slow on HD6970
•Upgraded to HD7970
•Game still ran exact same FPS
•Noticed GPU clock was no longer increasing when in game
•Manually forced to stock speed.