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1/28/12 at 11:23am
I flashed my cards using the Asus BIOS, my clocks still limited to 1125. Do I need to do a driver reinstall?
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1/28/12 at 11:24am
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I posted this finding on video card section in [h]ardforum, and a couple people are calling it BS already. Not to start a war...

Are they running 2500k with two 7970's in bf3 64 player? Do they have proof of 99% gpu usage? I would love to keep this setup until Ivy Bridge but hell, if its' a bottleneck then it's a bottleneck.
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1/28/12 at 11:25am
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1/28/12 at 11:28am
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Is what I read about giving the card 125mV more than stock voltage will not do any good true? (because I seem to hit an invisible wall at around 1.2v where Unigine starts artifacting around the dragon)
is it fixed if I flash to the Asus Bios?


It's true. Regardless of ASIC VID, it's locked @+125mV. This proves that higher quality ASICs will not overvoltage higher and better than the lowest ASIC VID. Overclockability is unique to each chip regardless of ASIC quality.

 

Flash it with ASUS BIOS will not by-pass the +125mV OVP (Over Voltage Protection).

 

 

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I flashed my cards using the Asus BIOS, my clocks still limited to 1125. Do I need to do a driver reinstall? 

 

 How did you flash? Using Atiflash from DOS or using Asus Tweak from Windows?

 

Try this BIOS;

 

 

 

 

Asus.HD7970.3072.120104.zip 40k .zip file

 

 

 

 


Edited by Ken1649 - 1/28/12 at 11:32am
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1/28/12 at 11:30am
This random fps drop thing is killing me. FPS drops down by 20-30 fps for half a second every four second. It's unplayable! And there is no clear sign to why this is happening. Come on, please tell me there is someone who knows what i'll have to do blushsmiley.gif
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1/28/12 at 11:31am
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This random fps drop thing is killing me. FPS drops down by 20-30 fps for half a second every four second. It's unplayable! And there is no clear sign to why this is happening. Come on, please tell me there is someone who knows what i'll have to do blushsmiley.gif

All games? Or BF3?
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1/28/12 at 11:32am
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How did you flash? Using Atiflash from DOS or using Asus Tweak from Windows?

Try this BIOS;

Asus.HD7970.3072.120104.zip 40k .zip file

I used the DOS flash posted in the OP; Asus.HD7970.3072.111220

Do I need to use the Asus Tweak software exclusively?
Edited by Outcasst - 1/28/12 at 11:34am
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All games? Or BF3?

All games, even benchmarks like 3DMark 11 and Ungine Heaven gives me this strange fps-drop ..
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1/28/12 at 11:33am
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It's true. Regardless of ASIC VID, it's locked @+125mV. This proves that higher quality ASICs will not overvoltage higher and better than the lowest ASIC VID. Overclockability is unique to each chip regardless of ASIC quality.

Flash it with ASUS BIOS will not by-pass the +125mV OVP (Over Voltage Protection).


Awh, shucks... Hopefully they will find a way to overide the OVP sometime in the future. like they did on the 580/570 smile.gif


One an other side of things, does any1 think changing the Thermal grease on my two cards will result in lower overall temperatures? I got some IC Diamond 7carat lying around
Edited by Norlig - 1/28/12 at 11:37am
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