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    7970 GPU throttling, faulty card or psu?

    Yes, I am using a modded set of drivers that has ULPS disabled. @brfitzp1337 Can't really understand what you are trying to say. Does your clock go back to 501mhz when playing, or they start going up an down to random values like in my case? If the clocks are varying between two fixed...
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    7970 GPU throttling, faulty card or psu?

    Well, I have been in touch with XFX and unfortunately, they decided to stonewall a legitimate complaint with relentless boilerplates and platitudes. I have took a couple of videos of the issue, and sent to them to help them identify the problem: This is the first one...
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    7970 GPU throttling, faulty card or psu?

    Small update on this. I just bought today a Corsair 760W 80+ platinum, which should by all means be more than enough to run a ghz edition at stock clocks. Installed and tested it with heaven 4.0, sniper ghost warrior 2, crysis 3. The card will still throttle when a lot of action is going on. I...
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    7970 GPU throttling, faulty card or psu?

    Yes, there's a loss in fps when this happen, but honestly it is not such a major deal as the fps are still pretty high, what kills it is that the gpu throttle creates sort of a skipping/stuttering, which really becomes annoying after a while. To put it in numbers the card scores 200-300...
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    7970 GPU throttling, faulty card or psu?

    @extide I wrote that in my initial post. The PSU is a LCPower arkangel, if you are not familiar with the model, is basically a Thermaltake Thoughpower with a different sticker. GPU voltage under load is 1.213v, I took a screenshoot of the throttling with Msi afterburner: As you can see the...
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    7970 GPU throttling, faulty card or psu?

    Hello, first of all I kinda resent being THAT guy that signs up for asking help for a problem of his but I am basically at my wits end on how to further narrow it down the problem I am experiencing and I've hardly found people with a similar issue around the internet, hope you won't mind too...
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