Sapphire 7970 OC in crossfire P Score

[Briggsy]

Hi All,

I've overclocked my g/crds and got a P score at default settings P16172, how would you rate this score for my setup which is below?

Overclock details:

GPU clock : 1225

Memory clock: 1625

volt: 1.275

this is on stock cooling.

 

[Bullmecha]

I was thinking of that same card for my future upgrade =)

Air temps ok with the stock cooler ?

 

[Briggsy]

I was thinking of that same card for my future upgrade =)

Air temps ok with the stock cooler ?

well havent really monitored that yet....will let you know.

 

[Briggsy]

Hey guys - can anyone comment on this P score with the oc settings i made?

Thanks

 

[Nathlm]

Hey guys - can anyone comment on this P score with the oc settings i made?

Thanks

It's great I think that's nearly 100% scaling, yes?

 

[kilobravo]

Its a good score for normal daily gaming.

 

[Briggsy]

so you think I could leave this as a 24/7 with stock cooling?

 

[kilobravo]

If you have good airflow through the case and temps look fine i cant see why you cant use it.

Are you gaming on multiple screens? You could back it down a little to 1100mhz coreclock.

 

[Briggsy]

Thanks - well as im running xfire my cards are quite close together, i will monitor the temps as I play but one card will always be hotter.

 

[Bullmecha]

Still no temps up ?? Come on Briggsy, hook us up

 

[Briggsy]

Still no temps up ?? Come on Briggsy, hook us up

HaHa sorry mate - Well tbh its a little hard to give you acurate temps as where my cards are so close together one was really hot and the other was around 20c cooler....so I'm looking for a solution to seperate them for better cooling but haven't found one yet.

I have monitored the temps playing bf3 with these clocks, one card was around 83c and the other was 65c.

Sorry I cant be more acurate.

 

[Bullmecha]

At least its a start point...

Do you have the drive bay fans pitched up to your GPU's? Help force some more air into them.

I have the same case

 

[Briggsy]

Yeah I still have only the default one bay fan at the side which blows air between them, tbh I love to keep this clocks on a 24/7 if I have better cooling, wc would be best but were the cards are so close togther I wouldn't get the blocks on them.....

I need a board were I can have the cards a few slots apart but without reducing bandwidth.

 

[Bullmecha]

Can you post a pic of your rig.. so we can see the cards spacing?

Gonna go look at that MB spec list too =)

 

[Briggsy]

Yeah sure - it wont be until this afternoon as I'm working now and will be in bed till just after lunch....but will get one up for sure.

 

[Briggsy]

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/821/p1010643e.jpg/

Pic of my gpu config.

 

[Bullmecha]

You should be able to waterblock those..

I run the 4870x2 which isn't a small thickness card.. the waterblock isn't but maybe.. 20mm thick.

Check the spacing between the card PCB's, I think you can fit one.

 

[Briggsy]

well I would need to put a block on the top card as this is the one which runs the hottest but I have a sound card in the way and there is no other slot available for it.

 

[Bullmecha]

The blocks sit Under the graphics card PCB... very little sits above.

but as i see in the image ..it may be tight for the top holding bracket .

 

[Briggsy]

So if I wc these cards (sapphire 7970 oc edition) would take the fans off the front of the cards? Sorry for noob questions, never wc anything before.

Thanks