HIS 5970 Action - Page 4

Kal-EL · #31 12-12-2009

Looks like the driver in win7x64 is totally borked. I heard a soft pop when tryin to run 3D03

win732bit is running o.k. tho. Gonna re-grab the ati drivers.

DrNip · #32 12-12-2009

That's just plain crazy if you ask me that you are having probs running Vantage at stock speeds. What do you think, shitty drivers? Also I was looking and noticed beta in the name in your 1st post. What's that about? Has me confused.

Kal-EL · #33 12-12-2009

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Originally Posted by DrNip

That's just plain crazy if you ask me that you are having probs running Vantage at stock speeds. What do you think, shitty drivers?

Maybe a shitty card? can't get video in either 32 bit or 64 bit now. Also getting blue screens

DrNip · #34 12-12-2009

Shit. Better pull one out and then test both separately. What driver you using?

Kal-EL · #35 12-12-2009

Cat v.8663.1_Beta5_Hemlock_Win7_Nov11 for 7x64
Maybe this 920 is cursed?

Well its all fubarred up. Had to use AFterburner to up the fan speeds with the latest non-beta ATI drivers. Still freezes when tryin to run Vantage. I'm gonna take a break from it, re-image the partition and start fresh again.

Some interesting information...............

I re-imaged the partitions and staretd from scratch. Installed "Display" drivers only from the ATI recommended beta 5 for win7. Then i installed latest MSI Afterburner.

Out of the box, afterburner doesn't let you control fan speeds here. So I went into user defined fan profiles and jacked it up. This resulted in card#1 ramping up fan speeds while card#2 did not change. Heres the interesting part....... When i set msi AB to osd for gpu temps 1,2,3, and 4, suddenly card#2 fan speed jumped to 100% and now they are both running at 100% and temps are dropping. However, Vantage still locks up on the loading screen for Graphic#1 test.
Very well, carry on

Damn it all to hell. Can't run any 3d benches at all. Gonna try Vista now.

Blue screen while tryin to install ATI drivers in Vista

Kal-EL · #36 12-12-2009

I can say with a high degree of confidence that ATI DRIVERS SUCK, lol.

Well, I switched to xp32bit because no 3d app would run in win 7 or vista. I also pulled the second card. Card #1 almost burned my finger off so heat is definitely a major issue with the cards up against each other.

Ran just card#1 and the Good news is that vista/win7 is borked. Bad news is that nothing's wrong with card#1 and it runs 3dmark06 fine in winxp32.

I'll continue this adventure summorez.

Neuromancer · #37 12-12-2009

Did you set ioh/ich i/o voltage to 1.6-1.625?

That is the range I used on a SINGLE 4890 OCed to 1080/1200

I would not try going too high with it, but might even need a little more for 4 GPUs.

For drivers, look at the bot and see which drivers they are using, the latest are not always the best, even for new cards.

Kal-EL · #38 12-12-2009

Yah, I'll continue the fact finding mission as needed, its not like its just supposed to work jah know

btw, all clocks are stock on gpu.

Kal-EL · #39 12-12-2009

4.2ghz i7920+stock single 5970

2chesapeakes · #40 12-12-2009

Wow reminds me of getting the 4870x2's when they first come out. Nothing but driver issues. Once the drivers mature I am sure you will be tearing up the benches.
I know on my R2E and Classified for 2 x 2GPU cards I need to run IOH Vcore around 1.375 to 1.4 and IOH/ICH around 1.55 to 1.75. Anything less and it will fail tests as soon as I put a small OC on the system.