Sapphire 7950 Dual X - 950Mhz

Procrastastudy

Right I will stick some photos up but I had to get it into the machine before the wife got home - long story. EB put me right on this card so a massive thank you! From all reports I've seen it's going to be an awesome clocker.

It's a hard one to find but the HWVS link is in my sig - it comes with a 6 pin and 8 pin connector and is apparently the same PCB as they fit to the 7970 OC edition minus one VRM.

Its also suposadly dual BIOS but on my haste to get it in the machine I've not looked at that yet.

Okay some basic (not overly impressive) Stock benchmarks.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4137014

gooch2k9

You do some dodging of wifey!

Tea_Bag

that'll be about 7970 stock performance id say, and should be good to 1ghz without much work.

Eboggles

Tea_Bag wrote: »

that'll be about 7970 stock performance id say, and should be good to 1ghz without much work.

Have a look at this.

Tea_Bag

on second pass, this thing OC's like nobodys business. im reading of a guy on 1250mhz on air, and 1350mhz on water. sweet.

Procrastastudy

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4139239

1050/1350 not even wanting more power.

Theres an odd noise when its processing 3d though like a fan is clicking ever so slightly but I'm 90% sure its not the fans. Sounds like a component on the board is making the noise.

A 670 out the box: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/3647207 (EVGA FTW I think)

Off to do some gaming for stab testing!

Procrastastudy

WOW couldn't have made the BIOS switch any smaller if they tried - not even sure it does anything.

Eboggles

Procrastastudy wrote: »

WOW couldn't have made the BIOS switch any smaller if they tried - not even sure it does anything.

It's a fail safe, in case you accidentally brick your card. Nice touch IMO.

Sarz91

What kind of scores are you getting in Heaven 3.0?

Sarz91

I'm really confused. How is your physics score so much better than mine if its determined by the cpu?

Procrastastudy

Nice looking bench!

Powered by Unigine Engine
Heaven Benchmark v3.0 BasicFPS: 70.6
Scores: 1780
Min FPS: 37.0
Max FPS: 135.7

Running it as I downloaded it.

Got that voltage regulator or what ever it is is driving me nuts!

My CPU is running at 4.65Ghz - that it?

Sarz91

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Nice looking bench!

Powered by Unigine Engine
Heaven Benchmark v3.0 BasicFPS: 70.6
Scores: 1780
Min FPS: 37.0
Max FPS: 135.7

Running it as I downloaded it.

Got that voltage regulator or what ever it is is driving me nuts!

My CPU is running at 4.65Ghz - that it?

Phew. I thought you were running a stock 3570K like me. What settings were you using for Heaven?

Procrastastudy

That right?

Sarz91

I just maxed everything out. If you want I can test out a non oc stock 670 with those settings and compare them.

Procrastastudy

Can you test at 2560x1440p? Let me know what res I'll try maxed at that res. I dont enable 3D I guess?

What score do you get maxed?

Sarz91

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Can you test at 2560x1440p? Let me know what res I'll try maxed at that res. I dont enable 3D I guess?

What score do you get maxed?

I can only test at 1920x1080. Ill try the default first and the I'll try everything maxed. Eh no I don't anyway. I don't tick multi monitor either.

Maxed it should look like:
Teselletation - Extreme
Shaders - High
Anisotropy - 16x
Anti-aliasing - 8x
Resolution - 1920x1080 (cause I'm poor)

Procrastastudy

Sarz91 wrote: »

I can only test at 1920x1080. Ill try the default first and the I'll try everything maxed. Eh no I don't anyway. I don't tick multi monitor either.

Maxed it should look like:
Teselletation - Extreme
Shaders - High
Anisotropy - 16x
Anti-aliasing - 8x
Resolution - 1920x1080 (cause I'm poor)

2560x1440p because I'm in massive debt!

Sarz91

Gainward gtx 670 stock at 1920x1080 and default settings:
FPS-109.7
Scores-2763
min-26
max-211.7

Now to try maxed settings and wake everyone in the house up.

Sarz91

Gainward gtx 670 stock at 1920x1080 and maxed out settings:
FPS-44.2
Scores-1113
min-20.9
max-114

Procrastastudy

Maxed

FPS: 45.4
Scores: 1143
Min FPS: 12.3
Max FPS: 111.2

Thats 1050/1350 btw.

Sarz91

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Maxed

FPS: 45.4
Scores: 1143
Min FPS: 12.3
Max FPS: 111.2

Thats 1050/1350 btw.

Sorry, useless when it comes to voltages or frequencies. Assuming that means its overclocked?

Procrastastudy

Yep 1050Mhz Core and 1350Mhz memory.

Sarz91

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Yep 1050Mhz Core and 1350Mhz memory.

Ah ok. Was nearly pulling my hair out thinking I'd wasted €40 on a lesser card. Pretty close all the same.

Sarz91

Strange. My card is stocked at a memory clock of 3005Mhz and a core clock of 1084Mhz.

Procrastastudy

I'm pretty sure the effective clocks on a 670 are around 1100Mhz on the core and 6000Mhz on memory (1500x4). That said most 670s are voltage locked so don't overclock as well as something like this sapphire that's unlocked.

Obviously they are different GPUs but some people have 7950s runling at 1250Mhz core 6800Mhz effective memory

srsly78

Heaven benchmark at default settings, i5 3570k @ 4.65Ghz, 2xstock 6970, 1600p = 1885. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4436079/unigine_20120817_0920.html

Tea_Bag

the 670 also cripples itself when it reaches 70°C

under water though I've seen 1300Mhz+

srsly78

Maxed settings as above, but at 1600p: 920

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4436079/unigine_20120817_1034.html

Procrastastudy

Don't get me wrong I'm not slagging the 670 or 680 they are epicly good cards.

Sarz91

Procrastastudy wrote: »

Don't get me wrong I'm not slagging the 670 or 680 they are epicly good cards.

No but for less money the 7950 overclocked is pretty beastly.

Sarz91

Trying to see if I can return my 670 and get a 7950.