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MSI Afterburner + Dual 5970s

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ispano

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Ok, this might not be quite the right place to ask, but worth a shot.
Does anyone have any experience using MSI Afterburner with two 5970s?

The reason I ask is due to this

GPU1
________________________________________________________________________________
Display device : ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series on RV870 GPU
Display driver : 7.14.10.0825
On-board memory : 1024MB
BIOS : 012.020.000.028
GUID : VEN_1002&DEV_689C&SUBSYS_30201682&REV_00&BUS_16&DEV_0&FN_0
Multi-GPU role : synchronized with master

GPU2
________________________________________________________________________________
Display device : ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series on RV870 GPU
Display driver : 7.14.10.0825
On-board memory : 1024MB
BIOS : 012.020.000.028
GUID : VEN_1002&DEV_689C&SUBSYS_30201682&REV_00&BUS_13&DEV_0&FN_0
Multi-GPU role : synchronized with master

GPU3
________________________________________________________________________________
Display device : ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series
BIOS : 012.020.000.028
GUID : VEN_1002&DEV_689C&SUBSYS_30201682&REV_00&BUS_17&DEV_0&FN_0
Multi-GPU role : master

GPU4
________________________________________________________________________________
Display device : ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series on RV870 GPU
Display driver : 7.14.10.0825, Catalyst 11.4
On-board memory : 1024MB
BIOS : 012.020.000.028
GUID : VEN_1002&DEV_689C&SUBSYS_30201682&REV_00&BUS_12&DEV_0&FN_0
Multi-GPU role : synchronized with master

That is the information area for Afterburner, notice how the master GPU is missing the driver version
and memory count? Normally I wouldn't care. But the problem is that Afterburner can change the
voltages on all 4 GPUs... except that one. I can use the XFX Overvolt tool, and it does indeed change
all 4 GPUs, but that tool has no command line parameters so you cannot get it to change the voltage upon boot.

I could probably mod a BIOS to up the voltage, but I would like to avoid it unless neccesary.
 
Using 2.2.0 beta 2, so newer than that one. And yes, I use GPU-Z to check, all but one of the 4 GPUs jumps to the correct voltage when stressed. I eventually just got the stock BIOS for them, and flashed them with a higher voltage and that's worked.
 
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