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Thanks for the great review!! I will be buying one of these bad boys when Ivy bridge is out
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So, someone reviewed this card, but didn't even know what the power tune feature of CCC increases?
Hard to take it seriously when I read things like that.
Also, lots of people play Dx9 games. COD MW3, Skyrim, The Witcher 2, etc....
Turning down detail levels to raise a benchmark score? What is going on here? I am astonished at the things I have read in this review.
Not yet. Without voltage control it's pretty much moot. Hopefully we'll get either solid voltage control via software or hard-mod info soon. If either of those happens, I'll be requesting that loaner pot IMOG mentioned.Hokie... any ideas on subzero performance? Is that coming in the near future?
Thanks. There were full runs, yes; check out the "Putting Some Horsepower Behind The 7970" section for full SNB-E + 7970 results.Nice review.
I only had time to skim it - are there any full SNB-E results? Unleash all the SNB-E cores, overclocked, with an overclocked 7970 then an overclocked 580. It should net you some pretty high scores, and give you an idea how the top (single card) set-up these days should perform?
I suspect of course that most people with SNB-E cash will not stop at one GPU
Yep, easy as that. Put Power Tune on the +20% level and crank it up to CCC's max. On auto, it barely even spun up the fan speed during testing.Did they truly achieve 1125 MHZ only by using CCC and without any volt mods?
Thanks! I tried the most recent version I could find (failed miserably) and then we asked MSI for any in-house betas. They don't have one that functions yet but are working on it. I have some (slim) hope that they'll have a working beta by the time partners launch on January 9th.very informative review, Jeremy. I love ready most of the ocforums future product reviews, and this was no different.
I think that the msi afterburner 2.2 beta is supposed to be updated for this card. dont have the card to test. You can either try it yourself or send me the card to try.
Sigh. PowerTune increases "board power". What it really does is peg the p-states as high as they can go to force the board to operate at its max TDP at all times. What I wrote was a tongue-in-cheek response to not having a clue how that actually affects voltage. Can you tell me precisely how much voltage that setting increases on what components from what's available at 0% to put it at max TDP?So, someone reviewed this card, but didn't even know what the power tune feature of CCC increases?
Hard to take it seriously when I read things like that.
Also, lots of people play Dx9 games. COD MW3, Skyrim, The Witcher 2, etc....
Turning down detail levels to raise a benchmark score? What is going on here? I am astonished at the things I have read in this review.
Not yet. Without voltage control it's pretty much moot. Hopefully we'll get either solid voltage control via software or hard-mod info soon. If either of those happens, I'll be requesting that loaner pot IMOG mentioned.
Thanks. There were full runs, yes; check out the "Putting Some Horsepower Behind The 7970" section for full SNB-E + 7970 results.
Yep, easy as that. Put Power Tune on the +20% level and crank it up to CCC's max. On auto, it barely even spun up the fan speed during testing.
Thanks! I tried the most recent version I could find (failed miserably) and then we asked MSI for any in-house betas. They don't have one that functions yet but are working on it. I have some (slim) hope that they'll have a working beta by the time partners launch on January 9th.
Sigh. PowerTune increases "board power". What it really does is peg the p-states as high as they can go to force the board to operate at its max TDP at all times. What I wrote was a tongue-in-cheek response to not having a clue how that actually affects voltage. Can you tell me precisely how much voltage that setting increases on what components from what's available at 0% to put it at max TDP?
All detail levels were set as high as they could go for every test (except for AvP: Default, as noted in the review...AvP high-as-it-would-go is right below that result).
If you're complaining about my mention of using LoD when I was running 3DMark06 on a different card (not this one), you are obviously not a benchmarker. That is common practice among anybody who has a clue what they're doing on HWBot. That was referring to competitive benchmarking and had nothing to do with the results when comparing it to other cards. If you had actually read the paragraph, you would have also seen that I did that on the Sparkle X580 trying to get a better score but did NOT do it on this card and it still beat out the X580.
Powertune does not change the voltage at all, it just allows for a higher voltage ceiling for when you do crank it up, so that it doesn't throttle back when it finds out its going way over tdp
Dry ice isnt possible yet, since overvolt options is a must have in order to execute. It has been stated that the 7970 was able to reach the 41. rank of those kind of dry ice cooled stuff. So it means, its probably in the upper range of a absolutly supertuned 580 GTX, and the 7970 was still air cooled, not overvolted, and not on dry ice... so the gain can still be massive and it surely will beat any 580 GTX by a clear margin as soon as they are on "dry ice".Hokie... any ideas on subzero performance? Is that coming in the near future?