Excalibur1976
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Hi all, just a short story and a find that might help some people.
I have been using an msi 7970 lightning be card with no problems but the water block for it has been discontinued so i needed another option! So i went out and brought a asus 7970 matrix platinum as i can get the water block for that card! So i ordered it from overclockers and it arrived at my work on friday! Itching to get home at 2pm i installed it and ran some tests using the same settings that i always do using heaven, not before uninstalling afterburner and other stuff. Installed gpu tweak and just set the overclock the same as the lightning MHz and ran it. To my horror every 3 or 4 seconds and also random times i had very slight stuttering and i am really observant so this proper bugged me,so i ran other stuff games,benchmarks etc etc but still i could see this stuttering i was really gutted as i love the card. Me and my mate had a few hours on dayz and off i went to bed with this fault keeping me awake! I'm a bit of a baby when things go wrong!! Any way up i got 7 in the morning ran the tests again and it was the same so i gave oc a call as i only live 40 Mins away so off i went with the card and they replaced it straight away, i dogged it back (70 mph) and installed the card and bang it was the same
:headscratch:! So i stared at the monitor for 5 Mins and thought i would do a full install and see if that worked before getting a refund and look for another card. So i just installed the basics programs and heaven and ran it again and woo it worked, no stuttering i was so happy words cant explain so updated everything with a few benches in between still all was o.k!! Finished installing steam,origins some other bits and bobs then left it and got up this morning and ran heaven one last time to shock horror the stuttering was back!! I was like wtf is going on so exited some stuff in the task bar that i had installed last like skype and other stuff one by one and i then found the problem all along it was..............( GPU TWEEK)...Couldn't make it more dramatic sorry but yes turn off gpu tweak and it runs smooth open it up and micro stutters, not a massive problem, just now i need to source a program to adjust voltage. Anyway i hope this might be of use to somebody racking the brains why they might be getting this fault. Thanks for reading.
I have been using an msi 7970 lightning be card with no problems but the water block for it has been discontinued so i needed another option! So i went out and brought a asus 7970 matrix platinum as i can get the water block for that card! So i ordered it from overclockers and it arrived at my work on friday! Itching to get home at 2pm i installed it and ran some tests using the same settings that i always do using heaven, not before uninstalling afterburner and other stuff. Installed gpu tweak and just set the overclock the same as the lightning MHz and ran it. To my horror every 3 or 4 seconds and also random times i had very slight stuttering and i am really observant so this proper bugged me,so i ran other stuff games,benchmarks etc etc but still i could see this stuttering i was really gutted as i love the card. Me and my mate had a few hours on dayz and off i went to bed with this fault keeping me awake! I'm a bit of a baby when things go wrong!! Any way up i got 7 in the morning ran the tests again and it was the same so i gave oc a call as i only live 40 Mins away so off i went with the card and they replaced it straight away, i dogged it back (70 mph) and installed the card and bang it was the same
:headscratch:! So i stared at the monitor for 5 Mins and thought i would do a full install and see if that worked before getting a refund and look for another card. So i just installed the basics programs and heaven and ran it again and woo it worked, no stuttering i was so happy words cant explain so updated everything with a few benches in between still all was o.k!! Finished installing steam,origins some other bits and bobs then left it and got up this morning and ran heaven one last time to shock horror the stuttering was back!! I was like wtf is going on so exited some stuff in the task bar that i had installed last like skype and other stuff one by one and i then found the problem all along it was..............( GPU TWEEK)...Couldn't make it more dramatic sorry but yes turn off gpu tweak and it runs smooth open it up and micro stutters, not a massive problem, just now i need to source a program to adjust voltage. Anyway i hope this might be of use to somebody racking the brains why they might be getting this fault. Thanks for reading.
