[Official] AMD 69xx Owners Club - Page 352

2 short questions. How bad of a bottleneck will I get if I throw in another one of these on a phenom ii x4 @ 3.2ghz? And second. I should be fine on a nice 750 watt psu right?

You should be good on a 750 watt, but you will see almost no difference in most games with that proc.

i got a quick question for everyone........is there a way to make it load a preset when loading windows.......for some reason everytime i restart it puts my top monitor to the left and makes it 1920X1080 even though its max res is 1600X900


i have no clear why it does that

yup the cpu would bottleneck the gpu pretty hard if you were to go for SLI youshould pick up a 960t and unlock to 1600t
or at least overclock to 4ghz

I've had similar problems and there was never any clear solution. Right click desktop and go into Resolution, click on the monitor you want to be your primary display and check "Make this my main display" checkbox. Other than that, you have to juggle the Windows 7 desktop settings with the CCC settings in Desktop Management.

I have always had problems with getting Windows to treat multiple monitors the right way, but it's seen a struggle here and there and sometimes you just have to accept what Windows wants and quit fighting it. Look at this screenshot:



That shows the system settings and the ccc disagreeing on which monitor is monitor #1. I would like to have more control over which monitor is #1, and to be able to match it to the "primary monitor". I have tried all sorts of things, right from the o/s install, and it seems occasionally the system will get it right, and sometimes it gets it wrong. I've had it change when I upgraded a monitor, or just when I switch ports. Other times I have tried controlling it by changing ports and swapping cables but to no avail. Now I just accept that monitor 2 seems to be working as the primary monitor so that monitor gets put in front, while monitor #1 (secondary monitor) gets put to the right side.

You could try going to the monitor manufacturers website and see if they have a driver for your monitor. This should be controlled by the EDID programming in the monitor, but if it's not reporting properly or Windows is nor recognizing it properly, maybe you need to use something other than the standard monitor driver. You can always try plugging it into a different port, or swapping the ports the monitors are plugged into (even if you have to use an adapter). You could also change the driver to a driver that matches your monitor. Go into Resolution, right click on the monitor and select properties, select Monitor tab, properties, driver tab, update, Browse my computer for driver software, pick from a list, disable "show compatible devices" box and try and select your monitor from the list. If you can't find one that's at least close, look through the Standard monitor types and try the generic version with your resolution. You can always try another manufacturers monitor from the list if you can google one and match it's res with your monitors res. Good luck.

Earlier in this thread I posted that my 6970 lightning was locking up with shader temps close to 150*C. I sent it to MSI and after 2-3 weeks they got it back to me, but according to the serial number they sent me the same one back... After installing it the first thing I did was fire up hwinfo64 and furmark again. I'm having the exact same problem as before, shader temps well over 100*C while the core is hanging out around 80*C. This is frustrating, time to put the 6950 back in and crush this ******* card with a hammer

this picture was just taken after only 60 seconds of furmark...



Anyone have any other thoughts what is causing these ridiculous temps, I have some antec thermal paste lying around I can try to reseat the cooler but this just came back from an RMA is supposed to be running fine.

Dunno. When I had a tf3 it ran ridiculously hot as well. It died.

I have a twin turbo II I can install on it today but I'm not sure that it will fix the problem. I would have to pull it off of a working card as well and I don't really want to do that just to test if its the tf3. I can also reseat the stock cooler but I don't even want to do that as MSI sent it back "repaired" today and I do not think I should have to.

Don't do anything. Take your screenshots and email the buggers. Tell them you're pissed and that you're still getting the same problem because they sent you back the same card. Let them know that you're a member of a few enthusiasts sites and that you'll be posting your results for everyone to see.

That's what I would do. I may even do it in their facebook page too if they made me. 80c is not unusual for a stock 6970 (even 90c), but it should never go over 100c, and none of my shaders are going over 100c.

I had thought MSI was a better company. Don't go taking it apart. You'd be better off to run it as hot as you can until it dies and then send it into MSI. It's pretty easy to block the airflow on the card and force it to die. I'd email them first though with your screen shots and see what they say. I may even email AMD and see what they say the safe temps are for those shaders, and then send that with your email to MSI.