Received my Sapphire 7950 Boost version card today. Just un-boxed it and installed 12.11 beta 4.
Powered up GPU-Z and got an ASIC % of 63.9%. Going to play around it for a little and report back with some overclocks benchies etc
***Update***
So couple hours with the card. Had a feeling something would not be right form the get go when i got the package and the little sticker on the box was already opened and the box was dented on the bottom.
Installed it an messed with over clocking was able to run some benchmarks at 1100/1400 most were stable other times it stuttered. tried to mess with voltage increases but with the boost edition cards makes it more difficult. The card will not boot with any other 7950 non boost bios but will boot with a 7970 bios but then it seems voltage won't go past 1.170v which should be fine to get a decent 1150/1500 overclock (or one would think not with this card) Worst of all...Coil whine! omg I used to think what the heck are people talking about coil whine they have to be crazy. well no they not crazy as I sit here this card is wing wing wing wing loud as heck that my wife in the next room came out asking what the hell is that!! Suffice to say Newegg getting a call form me tomorrow take this back and I'm getting the MSI or Gigabyte. I really hope Newegg didn't pull a shaddy move on me try and send me a returned card cause even the inside packaging seemed off.
***Update #2***
So RMA'd that sapphire card cause if it was even possible the coil whine was even louder today. Something was just not right. I picked up the MSI 7950 TF3. I may one day start a water cooling project so nice to have the option of a reference 7970 pcb. Hope my luck is a bit better 2nd time around. Will report back when it comes in (if anyone even cares lol)
Powered up GPU-Z and got an ASIC % of 63.9%. Going to play around it for a little and report back with some overclocks benchies etc
***Update***
So couple hours with the card. Had a feeling something would not be right form the get go when i got the package and the little sticker on the box was already opened and the box was dented on the bottom.
Installed it an messed with over clocking was able to run some benchmarks at 1100/1400 most were stable other times it stuttered. tried to mess with voltage increases but with the boost edition cards makes it more difficult. The card will not boot with any other 7950 non boost bios but will boot with a 7970 bios but then it seems voltage won't go past 1.170v which should be fine to get a decent 1150/1500 overclock (or one would think not with this card) Worst of all...Coil whine! omg I used to think what the heck are people talking about coil whine they have to be crazy. well no they not crazy as I sit here this card is wing wing wing wing loud as heck that my wife in the next room came out asking what the hell is that!! Suffice to say Newegg getting a call form me tomorrow take this back and I'm getting the MSI or Gigabyte. I really hope Newegg didn't pull a shaddy move on me try and send me a returned card cause even the inside packaging seemed off.
***Update #2***
So RMA'd that sapphire card cause if it was even possible the coil whine was even louder today. Something was just not right. I picked up the MSI 7950 TF3. I may one day start a water cooling project so nice to have the option of a reference 7970 pcb. Hope my luck is a bit better 2nd time around. Will report back when it comes in (if anyone even cares lol)
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