HIS 5970 Action
 

http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970b.jpg
Stay tuned ;)
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Gonna bench these things on air tonight :)
CPU i7 920
E759
Gskill 2133 cas 9
(2) HIS 5970's Cat v.8663.1_Beta5_Hemlock_Win7_Nov11 for 7x64

The test rig:
http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20005.jpg

Initial temps around 51c on the cards and down 10c when fan speed ramped to 100%http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20008.jpg

I have to say this..

I'M JEALOUS

now that we got that out of the way, when will you post up some scores with the you-know-what on the 4-way classy. PLZ let it be later today or the latest tomorrow

You aching for gulftown runs? I'll get to it asap, just happy to be messin with hardware for once. :D

:happy3::happy3:


cant wait for the runs !

The Test Rig:
http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20005.jpg

WOW!!!!
Good luck with your new toys Kal-EL :)

Thx sofos......

Not to bore anyone but I gotta re-image my 6-OS boot partitions to have a clean go at it. Should take about 10 more minutes or so using Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Dos. I have the entire thing on a spare sata drive and its imaging byte for byte each of the six os paritions that each have all benchmark apps installed, fully updated, activated and without video drivers so I can easily switch between different cards. If you're interested in this software, follow the link on the sidebar to the left.

http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20006.jpg

My bad, it took a lil longer than 10 minutes to image a 6 boot loaded, 6 paritions fully loaded with all benchmark applications installed on each os. Best look for another back-up software cuz this one is getting too slow :Dizzy:
http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20007.jpg

Onwards to ATI HIS driver installation in Win7 or does anyone suggest Vista play?

Ooops, looks like I goofeded :blush:
The i7 920 is in the socket rather than the 3570 :scared: Oh well, we'll work out my blck suck :D

That's what I am talking about.

You have a longer bridge so you don't have to run them so close?

No I don't have them long bridges but I believe its x16 x16 in this config, not sure about the E762 tho (anybody know off hand?)
http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/...ogByteNuts.jpg

It should be since that was the selling point of the 4way Classy right ?

pretty sure

I wouldn't run them that close unless I had 4 GPU's I was cramming together. I was thinking slots 1 and 3 were 16x and 16x. At least mine says slot 3 is 16x/8x which I take it is 16x but 8x if you are running tri GPU's. I was just worried about unnecessary heat issues.

Only PCIe Slots 1,3,5,7 appear to be 16x on the E762.

Yeah every other one which is odd # slots. Same goes for the 759, 1 and 3. Either way though you don't have a longer bridge. Might look into getting one.

Edit: Here is one on ebay and ships it your way free.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_2695wt_939

Initial temps around 51c on the cards and down 10c when fan speed ramped to 100%
http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20008.jpg

First run on Vantage froze, troubleshooting now.

Fan speeds at default or cranked up? I read some posts of people not being able to run Vantage without the fan speed at least at 50% due to heat issues.

I'm running 100% out the gate and won't look back :good: (I pinched up the vtt on teh cpu as it was at the border @ 1.2v vs 1.65vdimm)

It's running now :D

Ill be waiting for the scores!

You running stock clocks on those 5970s ?

Yessir, stock clocks for now.
27404 3DMarkVantage http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1680960
Looking up my old GTX285 4-way Classified runs at stock for comparison= 27757 http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/...7757_64bit.JPG
SysMem needs to be bumped up on the current 5970 runs but its comparible.
http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20009.jpg

SWEET!!!!!!!!!! I broke down and grabbed one of the HIS5970's...
I also like to separate the cards and can with slot 1 and 3..I purchased and extended bridge from ebay for the 4870x2's and I think they are the same bridge for the 5870 and 5970....
I read somewhere that the 5970's really need the separation....I am modding my cube now for the arrival of the first HIS...2nd to come as soon as i can grab it....

Good to hear buddy, we can go head to head with them :D

Anyone know how to permanantly disable the feature tests in Vantage?
(re-running with better mem speeds/timings to compare to that GTXclassified run)

No. I always have to manually turn them off.

Well, its a nice bump just tightening up mem and increasing speed:

28,114
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Chit!!!!! 28,000 @ 3.3....You are really going to make some noise when you crank this up a bit....ATI loves the 06 and 03 stuff..You will soon make your mark!!!!!!!!!!!!:clapping:

Oh yeah, that's where you'll see the most difference by raising your BCLK.

I raised the dram ratio to 1600 and the cpu and gpu scores liked it. :thumbsup:

Vantage is having problems in Win732bit, freezes or driver crashes. Managed to squeek out 1 run:
http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20011.jpg

3DMark06 Win7x64
http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20012.jpg
For comparison sakes to the 4-way GTX Classified: http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/...2411_64bit.JPG

Sweet jeebus!

Nice runs so far.. cant wait to see them with a good CPU score ;)

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 :cool2:

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 :Dizzy:

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

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.

http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20013.jpg


I'll continue this adventure summorez. :D

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.

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.

4.2ghz i7920+stock single 5970
http://www.overclockaholics.com/Kal/5970/5970%20014.jpg

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.