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Hi guys, I have a bit of a peculiar problem with my Sapphire 7950 OC non-reference board card and I'm wondering if anyone is experiencing such a problem......
In almost all games and benchmarks, like Heaven or Valley benchmarks, my gpu usage fluctuates from low 90's to 99%. Not consistently, but it happens at the same places over and over again. I have set the power limit to 20%, overclocked my cpu(core i7 2700k @ 4.3ghz) to no avail. It's really odd, and it happens in 3dmark 11 at the combined tests, except it drops down to 80% usage in 3dmark 11. Its giving me slightly lower scores than people with the exact same overclock and its bugging me. Anyone have any insight on this problem? Or is it a problem at all?
Here's a screenie to show what happens

There are little dips that consistently happen throughout, notably the one at the end of the graph. It never stays at a constant 99%.
My card is Oc'ed to 1235mhz core and 1650mhz memory at 1.156v. I'm also running catalyst 13.8 beta (don't think it makes a difference since it happens throughout all drivers).
In almost all games and benchmarks, like Heaven or Valley benchmarks, my gpu usage fluctuates from low 90's to 99%. Not consistently, but it happens at the same places over and over again. I have set the power limit to 20%, overclocked my cpu(core i7 2700k @ 4.3ghz) to no avail. It's really odd, and it happens in 3dmark 11 at the combined tests, except it drops down to 80% usage in 3dmark 11. Its giving me slightly lower scores than people with the exact same overclock and its bugging me. Anyone have any insight on this problem? Or is it a problem at all?
Here's a screenie to show what happens
There are little dips that consistently happen throughout, notably the one at the end of the graph. It never stays at a constant 99%.
My card is Oc'ed to 1235mhz core and 1650mhz memory at 1.156v. I'm also running catalyst 13.8 beta (don't think it makes a difference since it happens throughout all drivers).