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I was looking at other people's 3dmark11 scores for the Sapphire 7870 XT and noticed that mine was a bit low, so I flashed it with the Powercolor 032 bios from this thread. It was originally on 030.
Stock
030: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6201784
032: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6202156...
How loud does your card get? I've never had a sapphire card before so I have no reference. Mine went up to 50% fan use while playing tomb raider and I thought it was quite loud, but apparently these are relatively quiet fans?
Yeaaaaah... I see that it has really no effect performance-wise, I'm just pretty curious about why it might be happening.
Dark12, that's definitely the cause. I'm running an i3-3225 :(
I need to learn how to read.
Thanks everyone!
Just got this card and noticed that it seems to only run up to PCIe 2.0 x16, according to GPU-Z. It says that the card is capable of PCIe 3.0. When I run the render test in GPU-Z, the most it will go up to is PCIe 2.0 x16.
CCC is reporting that my graphics bus capability is only PCI Express...