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[marjamar]

Well you can cut down my walmart experience if you want, but you had better leave my home depot alone! If you want some bad experiences, go with the wife to ross, or marshals, or about a million different girly shops. Oh, and don't mess with my lowes either.

 

[marjamar]

Got my replacement Asus HD7970 in. Interesting point is it has a totally different BIOS in it the my stock BIOS. Stock clocks at 925/1375, this replacement clocks at 1230/1630. What gives I wonder?

It does run Unigine Heaven all the way without locking up the display, so that's a step in the right direction. I'll have to run a few more tests, but so far it works.

-Rodger

 

[Johan45]

Well now that is odd. Sure that's just not the boost speed??

 

[marjamar]

Well now that is odd. Sure that's just not the boost speed??

Nope, it different bios. Here's a couple of pics, the higher clocks are the replacement card.

 

[Johan45]

Looks like you got lucky. That's a pretty decent boost. Still really strange. There aren't any 7970s that sell at that clock that I know of. Maybe that's one that someone else returned with an altered bios???

 

[marjamar]

I thought the same, but you'd have to ask why return it? Better guess might be they did this for some reason. I need to send the other card back, but I am so tempted to flash it with this bios and see what it might do. Who knows, it might work perfectly fine with the other bios.

Anyway you want to look at it, it's pretty weird.

-Rodger

 

[Johan45]

Just curious what the Voltage is and if there's any extra available on the new one compared to the old??
I would just send the card back myself, don't want to take a chance and be out the cash.

 

[Mandrake4565]

Just wanted to wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas and those who don't celebrate it, Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year.

 

[marjamar]

Just curious what the Voltage is and if there's any extra available on the new one compared to the old??
I would just send the card back myself, don't want to take a chance and be out the cash.

Sorry for the late reply, just missed your post. I tried flashing the bios, but it didn't help. Flashed the original back and still the same as before flashing, so no help either. Stressed parts due to heat not controlled well enough in those non-cooled compartments in the water block is my guess. That, or heat stressed due to poor thermal transfer at bad/no contact points in the water block to VRM components meant to be cooled with this EK block.

Anyways, I'll be sending it back after Christmas in any case.

Happy Holidays everyone.

-Rodger

 

[Dr. McCoy]

I'll be working on some runs tonight since it's gonna be cold out at the benchshack. Maybe I can go a little faster, maybe not but will definitely be freezing my can off.

BTW Merry Christmas ya'll!

 

[papadan]

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to all. Thanks to everyone for all the help this past year & I'm sure I'll be needing much more in the coming year.
Dan

 

[MongGrel]

Interesting stuff, I'm just busy abusing this new little Xeon ATM, heh.

Thought I'd pop buy and say Merry Christmas at any rate

Be safe over the Holidays all, and have fun !!!

Not too bad for this old rig

 

[Erixx]

That's fine as you get older you know it's not all about looks.

I never did show you's the finished product. I knew there was a reason they put that extra fan panel in the box !!

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that is super cool there buddy!

 

[Johan45]

Thanks Erixx
Here's a song that always make me chuckle at this time of year. This a local bands rendition , The Police Nabbed my Dad sang to the tune of Feliz Navidad < I hope you find this amusing.

 

[Ajay57]

Happy Holidays to all the guy's on the AMD Section.

Respectfully,

AJ.

 

[Johan45]

Just took the new ram for a walk with the 9370, looking good so far don't know how high it'll go yet but at these timings 2000 is pushing it.

 

[RGone]

Ah hah. Some smaller size ram sticks. U must be really into benching now. Hehehe.

Be Careful or............

.........the Ram Cops Will Get U.

Bobert...sterstignatorzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Johan45]

Ah hah. Some smaller size ram sticks. U must be really into benching now. Hehehe.

Be Careful or............

.........the Ram Cops Will Get U.

Bobert...sterstignatorzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Gee what's next the HDD patrol!!

 

[RGone]

Gee what's next the HDD patrol!!

Might be. Don't let me catch U running 105 PCIe on yore SSD, monz.
BoBert...ster.

 

[Erixx]

cas7

Just took the new ram for a walk with the 9370, looking good so far don't know how high it'll go yet but at these timings 2000 is pushing it.

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wow dude, cas 7 man It must be Snap Fast!
very cool j45