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Race Your PC Thread2 of Voiding Warranties

ColonialRaptor

ColonialRaptor

Member
One of my cards is faulty!!!

I'm going to have to return it. What a fucken bummer. But at least the other one is a killer. It's overclocked all the way to the top of the Overdrive settings and isn't even skipping a beat!

Other card when installed causes flashing colours and artifacts even at stock, it happened a few times early on, but I thought it was just overclocking, but its even happening at stock now and it's getting worse. Definitely faulty.
 
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Gav47

Member
Man, I could not get my two 470's to take any kind of an overclock when in SLi. Using just one I could get a very respectable result but my screen kept blacking out with two cards enabled at the same clocks. The result below will have to do until I get the issue sorted (or if anyone has any words of advice that would be welcome too.)

P7372 2x Sparkle GTX 470 - Stock - i5 760 @3.5Ghz - 12GB @ 1333Mhz - MSI P55-GD65 Closed loop(H50) Gav47 Link
 
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Shaneus

Member
I think I've managed to squeeze everything out of my PC that I can. Regardless of what voltage, though, making the jump from 49x to 50x bus speed on my CPU causes it to lock up immediately. 49x is stable as a rock. Odd.

Anyway, love it when you can run a notoriously intense benchmark in full detail at a decent rate!
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Also, updated stats:

P11474 - 1x AMD Radeon 5970 899/1150/1.164v + 1x Asus Radeon 5850 DirectCU 899/1150/1.28v - 2500K @ 4.9GHz - 8GB @ 1600 - AsRock Ext3 Pro3 Z68 - Shaneus - Air - Link
(remember, tri-fire/tri-GPU!)
 
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scogoth

Member
Going for 10500. Broke the 10000 mark with 4.2GHz and 2x470s at 800/1600/1994. Currently up to 4.3GHz and 835/1670/2001. Fortunately it's cold today and have the window open so ambient is about -2C.

Next, throw caution to the wind put vcore to 1.4v+ and try for 4.5Ghz
 
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scogoth

Member
Gav47 said:
Man, I could not get my two 470's to take any kind of an overclock when in SLi. Using just one I could get a very respectable result but my screen kept blacking out with two cards enabled at the same clocks. The result below will have to do until I get the issue sorted (or if anyone has any words of advice that would be welcome too.)

P7372 2x Sparkle GTX 470 - Stock - i5 760 @3.5Ghz - 12GB @ 1333Mhz - MSI P55-GD65 Closed loop(H50) Gav47 Link
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Are you using MSI afterburner to oc them? What's your power supply?

I have a very similar setup and am getting my 470s to oc very well.
 
LiquidMetal14

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
scogoth said:
Going for 10500. Broke the 10000 mark with 4.2GHz and 2x470s at 800/1600/1994. Currently up to 4.3GHz and 835/1670/2001. Fortunately it's cold today and have the window open so ambient is about -2C.

Next, throw caution to the wind put vcore to 1.4v+ and try for 4.5Ghz
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What CPU? 1.4vcore is awfully high for that frequency. I'm at 4.8 and hit 1.368 on my 2500k.
 
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scogoth

Member
LiquidMetal14 said:
What CPU? 1.4vcore is awfully high for that frequency. I'm at 4.8 and hit 1.368 on my 2500k.
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It's not high for that frequency. I have a i7930, 1.4 is about max that I feel comfortable with on air. Nehalem is great for overclocking but not as good as sandy bridge

EDIT:

Well this is the best I can get, GPU and CPU won't go anymore.

P10373 - 2xEVGA GTX470 - 836/2001/1.087 - i7930 @ 4.385GHz - RAM @ 1670MHz - ASUS P6x58D Premium - scogoth - NH-D14 Air - link
 
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BoobPhysics101

Banned
scogoth said:
Going for 10500. Broke the 10000 mark with 4.2GHz and 2x470s at 800/1600/1994. Currently up to 4.3GHz and 835/1670/2001. Fortunately it's cold today and have the window open so ambient is about -2C.

Next, throw caution to the wind put vcore to 1.4v+ and try for 4.5Ghz
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Wow very nice! I knew you'd do much better once you pushed those 470's. Awesome score man. :)
 
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Felix Lighter

Member
scogoth said:
It's not high for that frequency. I have a i7930, 1.4 is about max that I feel comfortable with on air. Nehalem is great for overclocking but not as good as sandy bridge
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4.5 Ghz for a i7 930 would be impressive for sure. I don't have the nerves for voltage that high myself.
 
ColonialRaptor

ColonialRaptor

Member
P16357 - 2x CFX HIS 7970 (1125 / 1575 / Stock) - i7-3930k @ 4.5 - 16GB 1600Mhz - Gigabyte p9x79DELUXE - ColonialRaptor - Closed Water (H100) - Link

Read it and weep boys!!!

Clocked to the max, the only way I can go higher is with volt mods now... NIIIIICE!
 
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scogoth

Member
ColonialRaptor said:
P16357 - 2x CFX HIS 7970 (1125 / 1575 / Stock) - i7-3930k @ 4.5 - 16GB 1600Mhz - Gigabyte p9x79DELUXE - ColonialRaptor - Closed Water (H100) - Link

Read it and weep boys!!!

Clocked to the max, the only way I can go higher is with volt mods now... NIIIIICE!
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Are you really going to leave it at that? You can push that 3930 way higher.
 
ColonialRaptor

ColonialRaptor

Member
scogoth said:
Are you really going to leave it at that? You can push that 3930 wayyyyy higher.
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Haha... no not going to leave it at that.

But that's where I'm at for today.

I know I can get the 3930 up to 4.8 actually so there will have to be a run with that and once volt modding these cards becomes a bit easier I'll put them up a bit and go for broke.

I want 18k.
 
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scogoth

Member
ColonialRaptor said:
Haha... no not going to leave it at that.

But that's where I'm at for today.

I know I can get the 3930 up to 4.8 actually so there will have to be a run with that and once volt modding these cards becomes a bit easier I'll put them up a bit and go for broke.

I want 18k.
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Good, I want to beat you with 2x 780s and ivy bridge =P
 
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BoobPhysics101

Banned
ColonialRaptor said:
P16357 - 2x CFX HIS 7970 (1125 / 1575 / Stock) - i7-3930k @ 4.5 - 16GB 1600Mhz - Gigabyte p9x79DELUXE - ColonialRaptor - Closed Water (H100) - Link

Read it and weep boys!!!

Clocked to the max, the only way I can go higher is with volt mods now... NIIIIICE!
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Still too low. Needs 1.3 Ghz core and 7~ Ghz RAM clocks.

Some guy with 1.7 Ghz core and like 8 Ghz RAM clocks is hitting 15k... with one 7970.
 
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Felix Lighter

Member
This morning I'm going to push my card beyond the CCC limits and see what I get. Is FurMark still a good stress test to check stability? Right now I'm trying, 1200 core 1950 mem and FurMark has been stable for 5 mn with stock voltage.

Edit: I'm not sure how much more I want to mess with this. It ultimately was not stable at 1.25v with 1175/1800. Temps never got above 83 C but the it just locked up while running 3DMak. I'm a wus when it comes to upping the voltage too.
 
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Shaneus

Member
BoobPhysics101 said:
Still too low. Needs 1.3 Ghz core and 7~ Ghz RAM clocks.

Some guy with 1.7 Ghz core and like 8 Ghz RAM clocks is hitting 15k... with one 7970.
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Ahahaha. I love how everyone's just shot down Raptor's efforts because they're fairly safe despite being high-scoring. It's like a guy rocking up to a street drag race in a Veyron and only beating rice rockets by half a second.
 
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Hazaro

relies on auto-aim
Felix Lighter said:
This morning I'm going to push my card beyond the CCC limits and see what I get. Is FurMark still a good stress test to check stability? Right now I'm trying, 1200 core 1950 mem and FurMark has been stable for 5 mn with stock voltage.

Edit: I'm not sure how much more I want to mess with this. It ultimately was not stable at 1.25v with 1175/1800. Temps never got above 83 C but the it just locked up while running 3DMak. I'm a wus when it comes to upping the voltage too.
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CPU Voltage I'm wary off. GPU Voltage no where near as much.
 
ColonialRaptor

ColonialRaptor

Member
Shaneus said:
Ahahaha. I love how everyone's just shot down Raptor's efforts because they're fairly safe despite being high-scoring. It's like a guy rocking up to a street drag race in a Veyron and only beating rice rockets by half a second.
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Lol indeed.

I'm no. 1 on this forum fuckers!!
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I'll push it higher once someone goes above me
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HOWEVER, I'm not so worried about burning out the card or anything, I've just never over volted a graphics card before, and I already had to return one of the cards I got as faulty so I'm not looking to burn out another one too quickly and have to return it otherwise the store I purchased from might get suss on me.

I didn't burn it out by overclocking, it was legitimately DOA, but these two are winners and if they burned out during overclocking then it would be a difficult sell.

Felix Lighter - the reason you're crashing is because you're letting them get hotter, these GPU's don't like the heat that much when they're running at those high settings, I don't know why that is... but it seems to me whenever I overclock - even at Max CCC settings it has the potential to freeze if the temps get over 80 degrees. Most people around the web say that you should be trying to keep the temps under 80 with these otherwise they lock.

So, what I'm saying is that when you're doing your 3DMark runs at high settings you need to put the fan on manual and crank it - I personally run the fan at 70% while I'm doing a 3DMark run.
 
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mkenyon

Banned
Will update later on after I finish playing with my new shiny.

So, anyone else getting loud buzzing noises from their 7970 under load? Kind of disconcerting, might need an RMA.

Before I get into dumping voltage into the 7970 and clocking it to possibly unsafe levels, bow before the new single GPU king.

P9048 - HD7970 - 1125/1575/stock - 2500K @ 5.0GHz - RAM @ 1600MHz - ASUS Gene-Z - mkenyon - Custom loop - link
 
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scogoth

Member
mkenyon said:
Will update later on after I finish playing with my new shiny.

So, anyone else getting loud buzzing noises from their 7970 under load? Kind of disconcerting, might need an RMA.

Before I get into dumping voltage into the 7970 and clocking it to possibly unsafe levels, bow before the new single GPU king.

P9048 - HD7970 - 1125/1575/stock - 2500K @ 5.0GHz - RAM @ 1600MHz - ASUS Gene-Z - mkenyon - Custom loop - link
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Now that you've got that lowly single gpu title go pick up 3 more 7970s :)
 
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mkenyon

Banned
Don't you think I wont!

Actually, I really won't. Going to keep this rig as a single GPU fully W/C system as soon as the EK 7970 blocks are for sale in the US (next week). Only enough room in the Arc Mini for 2 240mm rads. Plus, it's a Gene Z board, only two PCI-E x16 slots :p

Probably take dual GPU king when the 780s are released. Two will be delivered to my house day 1. 600T can deal with two air cards pretty well, nearly silent even with the two 560Ti's in there.
 
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scogoth

Member
mkenyon said:
Don't you think I wont!

Actually, I really won't. Going to keep this rig as a single GPU fully W/C system as soon as the EK 7970 blocks are for sale in the US (next week). Only enough room in the Arc Mini for 2 240mm rads. Plus, it's a Gene Z board, only two PCI-E x16 slots :p

Probably take dual GPU king when the 780s are released. Two will be delivered to my house day 1. 600T can deal with two air cards pretty well, nearly silent even with the two 560Ti's in there.
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Dream on. Going fully watercooled when i can get my hands on them with ivy bridge. It wont be day 1 but soon after.
 
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mkenyon

Banned
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*edit* Bumping up voltage on it right now, set the fan speed to 70% fixed. God damn is that summabitch loud.

*edit2* Might have to go to 1.21V.
 
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mkenyon

Banned
All I can say is that I'm glad I didn't turn any heaters on this morning. My hands are frozen, but these ambients are amazing.
 
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mkenyon

Banned
No matter what I do, as soon as I add voltage, I'm getting crazy artifacts. Even with volts at 1.3, core at 1255 and memory at 1700 down through ~1160/1600, still getting them. Getting P75xx-P78xx despite the higher clocks.

*edit* I'm getting artifacts at stock now too. Hrm..... May need to contact Sapphire.
 
ColonialRaptor

ColonialRaptor

Member
mkenyon said:
No matter what I do, as soon as I add voltage, I'm getting crazy artifacts. Even with volts at 1.3, core at 1255 and memory at 1700 down through ~1160/1600, still getting them. Getting P75xx-P78xx despite the higher clocks.

*edit* I'm getting artifacts at stock now too. Hrm..... May need to contact Sapphire.
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Oh Noez!!
 
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Previous

check out my new Swatch
Here's my first attempt in this thread with my new build, nothing overclocked...yet

P7341 - Asus HD 7970 - 925MHz/1375MHz/Stock - 2500k @ 3.3 - 8GB @ 1600MHz - Asus P8P67 PRO REV 3.1 - Previous - Closed Water (H80) - Link

fake edit: hmmm site doesn't recognize my gpu.. weird
 
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Smokey

Member
mkenyon said:
No matter what I do, as soon as I add voltage, I'm getting crazy artifacts. Even with volts at 1.3, core at 1255 and memory at 1700 down through ~1160/1600, still getting them. Getting P75xx-P78xx despite the higher clocks.

*edit* I'm getting artifacts at stock now too. Hrm..... May need to contact Sapphire.
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Killed the card already?!
 
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prophecy0

Member
I doubt my system compares very well but here goes:

***OLD RESULTS! SEE NEW RESULTS BELOW***
P5676 - 1xGTX570 - 845MHz/1900MHz/1.013V - i7 920 @ 3.833GHz - 6GB @ 730MHz - EVGA X58 - prophecy0 - Air (Prolimatech Megahalem) - Link

3dmark said it couldn't recognize my card/drivers. I guess this is because I am using the latest beta drivers?

If anyone has any suggestions for boosting performance I am all ears!

EDIT: Updated stats after some extra tweaking of my GPU overclock:
P6337 - 1xGTX570 - 840MHz/2000MHz/1.025V - i7 920 @ 3.833GHz - 6GB @ 730MHz - EVGA X58 - prophecy0 - Air (Prolimatech Megahalem) - Link
 
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Salacious Crumb

Junior Member
ColonialRaptor said:
One of my cards is faulty!!!

I'm going to have to return it. What a fucken bummer. But at least the other one is a killer. It's overclocked all the way to the top of the Overdrive settings and isn't even skipping a beat!

Other card when installed causes flashing colours and artifacts even at stock, it happened a few times early on, but I thought it was just overclocking, but its even happening at stock now and it's getting worse. Definitely faulty.
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mkenyon said:
No matter what I do, as soon as I add voltage, I'm getting crazy artifacts. Even with volts at 1.3, core at 1255 and memory at 1700 down through ~1160/1600, still getting them. Getting P75xx-P78xx despite the higher clocks.

*edit* I'm getting artifacts at stock now too. Hrm..... May need to contact Sapphire.
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:eek: That's a bit worrying.
 
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BoobPhysics101

Banned
prophecy0 said:
I doubt my system compares very well but here goes:

P5676 - 1xGTX570 - 845MHz/1900MHz/1.080V - i7 920 @ 3.833GHz - 6GB @ 730MHz - EVGA X58 - prophecy0 - Air (Prolimatech Megahalem) - Link

3dmark said it couldn't recognize my card/drivers. I guess this is because I am using the latest beta drivers?

If anyone has any suggestions for boosting performance I am all ears!
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Something is off. Raise your memory overclocks on your 570 and see what happens. Even with a weaker CPU, you shouldn't be scoring almost 2000 points less than me.
 
Black_Stride

Black_Stride

do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Previous said:
Here's my first attempt in this thread with my new build, nothing overclocked...yet

P7341 - Asus HD 7970 - 925MHz/1375MHz/Stock - 2500k @ 3.3 - 8GB @ 1600MHz - Asus P8P67 PRO REV 3.1 - Previous - Closed Water (H80) - Link

fake edit: hmmm site doesn't recognize my gpu.. weird
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2500K at 4.3 is weak...take it to 4.5, if you got a good batch take it to 4.8, if you got a golden chip 5.0+
Something is very wrong if your 7970 is scoring at GTX570 levels.....dat overclock cant come soon enough.


Seeing the 7970s attack the single GPU ladder makes me sad, where is Nvidia with their damn cards...ATI/AMD must die!!!

P.S: What powerhouse games are coming out this year? Anything that will destroy even the 28nm cards?
 
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abuC

Member
Wow, glad I checked this thread, I ran the test and my score is around 3000-4000 lower than it was a few weeks ago.
 
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Cday

Banned
P4875 - Gigabyte GTX 560ti - 900/2004/Stock - 2500k @ 4.0GHz - RAM @ 1333MHz - ASUS P8P67 Pro - Cday - CM 212+ (Air) - Link

Time to go play some Rome: Total War!
 
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prophecy0

Member
BoobPhysics101 said:
Something is off. Raise your memory overclocks on your 570 and see what happens. Even with a weaker CPU, you shouldn't be scoring almost 2000 points less than me.
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After some more tweaking I got my score up to 6337.
P6337 - 1xGTX570 - 840MHz/2000MHz/1.025V - i7 920 @ 3.833GHz - 6GB @ 730MHz - EVGA X58 - prophecy0 - Air (Prolimatech Megahalem) - Link

Thanks!
 
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Chairhome

Member
I am definitely not equipped for this thread, but i figured this would be a good place to ask my question. I'm OC'ing my CPU now, and I notice the clock speed on my CPU monitor shows a constant 3.4, while the "CPU Usage" varies.. When its not OC'd, clock speed is variable. Is this normal, or should my OC make the clock speed max at 3.4 and still vary depending on use?
 
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scogoth

Member
Chairhome said:
I am definitely not equipped for this thread, but i figured this would be a good place to ask my question. I'm OC'ing my CPU now, and I notice the clock speed on my CPU monitor shows a constant 3.4, while the "CPU Usage" varies.. When its not OC'd, clock speed is variable. Is this normal, or should my OC make the clock speed max at 3.4 and still vary depending on use?
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Thats normal. The newer intel chips raise and lower their clock speed depending on usage, power and heat of the CPU. When you overclock that feature should (and is in your case) be disabled. Otherwise it might try to push the CPU even faster than your overclock and cause instability. Its called turbo boost or speedstep depending on what generation CPU you have.
 
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