Radeon 5970 HD

Joshua1187

Joshua1187

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Hi,

When any intensive part of a game (ex. L4D2) like shooting an oozie 1 or 2 lines across the screen show while its flashing. I'm assuming this is a video card issues. Any ideas?
 
joh06937

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probably just vertical sync not working very well. it can happen in some games. is it just like a weird almost colorless line that briefly shows up or does it have a distinct color to it?
 
Joshua1187

Joshua1187

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joh06937 said:
probably just vertical sync not working very well. it can happen in some games. is it just like a weird almost colorless line that briefly shows up or does it have a distinct color to it?
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That's exacly it, colorless briefly shows! It shows on the benchmark for ffxiv when somthing flashes as well.
 
Joshua1187

Joshua1187

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joh06937 said:
not much you can do about it.
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Will overclocking the gpu a little help? I don't think I've ever noticed it before and now its driving me insane!

Another question, on the benchmark I score about a 3700 on high res but the best score is 8000. Should my rig be scoreing higher? Or does 3700 sound reasonable for what I got?
 
joh06937

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i don't think oc'ing will help much.

to be honest i have no clue. i haven't played that game.

EDIT: ah, looks like because it runs in windowed mode it won't work with crossfire/sli so sounds like you are getting appropriate scores.
 
Joshua1187

Joshua1187

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joh06937 said:
i don't think oc'ing will help much.

to be honest i have no clue. i haven't played that game.

EDIT: ah, looks like because it runs in windowed mode it won't work with crossfire/sli so sounds like you are getting appropriate scores.
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HA, well how the hell does anyone get an 8000 score?
 
Joshua1187

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joh06937 said:
probably a crazily oc'ed 480/5870 and an i7.
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#1 - Thank you for always being very helpful and patient with me.

#2 - How does a 5870 outperform the 5970? I've seen in many places where this looks to be the case but I don't understand, why would a later card be worse then an earlier card? Keep in mind I'm sorta a newb to computer hardware these days XD.
 
joh06937

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no problem :p

the 5970 at stock clocks is sort of 2 5850s but when you overclock it to the 5870's clocks, it is 2 5870s (so basically it is a pair of underclocked 5870s on a single pcb). since the benchmark is running in a windowed mode, the card is basically a single 5870, giving you a lower score.

not sure which benchmarks you mean particularly but it could just be driver issues that cause low fps (you see that A LOT with crossfire 5970 setups where a single 5970 will outperform a single 5970). got a link to a specific one that you are referencing?
 
Joshua1187

Joshua1187

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I've got CCC which the video card came with.. im not sure what that does.. haha, i have HWMonitor which likely is not going to show what your asking about. Shall I just DL what you referenced?
 
joh06937

joh06937

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http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

click on the downlaod button to the right and install.

when done, open it up. to the right should be a bunch of graphs. find the ones that say "gpu1" usage and "gpu2 usage". then run the benchmark and watch those two graphs. one should go up to around 95% or so and one should stay at close to 0% (if i am right that is :p).
 
joh06937

joh06937

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yep, that's why. so really, if the benchmark was fullscreen as it should be, you'd be most likely be getting around 7400 :) what clocks are you running on the 5970?
 
joh06937

joh06937

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nope, that's stock. you could oc that quite a bit more. just depends on what kind of fan noise you can handle :p
 
joh06937

joh06937

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hmm, open up ccc and check what the sliders under the "overdrive" category say. they should be higher than 735. what specific 5970 is it?
 
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