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Brent/Kyle,
Thank you for focusing your launch-day coverage on a non-reference card. It was surprising to see how many other websites did the full review on the never-to-appear reference 770.
Thanks Core2-D2. I presume you are referring to the SP120 Quiets. I almost bought those when I ordered the Dark Knight, but at the last minute decided to try the stock fan first. The stock fan is only audible when it hits ~1700 RPM / 52c under full gaming load (my OC is 4.2Ghz), but it blends...
My Sapphire 7950 OC has its stock voltage set at 993mv and like you I could not get further than a 950 core without raising the voltage. I believe that many 7950s have their stock voltage set at 1093mv, so that may be why others are getting better results without having to make adjustments...
I am no expert in thermodynamics, but I believe what is important is how the heatpipes are oriented where they contact the GPU itself. So for the Sapphire cooler, once its installed in the FT02, the heatpipes will run east-west on the GPU. For the ASUS, the orientation would be north and...
I had similar concerns when I was considering an upgrade to a 7950 at the beginning of the year. My case is the RV02, which has the same "guts" as the FT02. I ended up going with the Sapphire 7950 OC.
My recommendation would be to go with either the MSI Twin Frozr or Sapphire OC model...
Recent updates include replacing a reference Asus 6870 with the Sapphire 7950 OC. I was a bit concerned about about using a non-reference cooler in the RV02, but my results have been terrific. Overclocked to 1125/1500 and overvolted to 1187mv, the card has yet to go above 70c. And it is...
Memory Scaling - Sapphire 7950 Dual Fan OC
Over the weekend I used Hard Reset's benchmark to test the gains due to overclocking memory. I ran the benchmark at each setting three times, below are the the median results for each. Benchmark settings were max'd, including 4xFSAA. My 2500k is...
I dug up my notes from the overclocking I did when I first received my Sapphire 7950 OC 5 weeks ago.
I tried both Trixx & MSI Afterburner for overclocking & voltage tuning, and after getting similar results from both settled on AB due to its more robust set of features. For stability testing...
I went with the Sapphire Dual Fan version just over a week ago. Prior to that I had a reference Asus 6870 that I bought at launch in Oct 2010.
Without a doubt the Sapphire is quieter. I would go so far as to say that the card is inaudible over my case fans at load. This is the case even...
Sapphire 7950 Dual Fan OC
925/1375 (.993 VDDC):
Idle: 26c (20c ambient)
Load: 58c in Leo Demo w. automatic fan, BIOS #2
1075/1450 (1.149 VDDC):
Idle: 26c
Load: 65c in Leo Demo & Crysis Warhead w. automatic fan, BIOS #2.
Case is a Silverstone RV-02, my CPU cooled with an H50 in a...