Okay I reran the same benchmark settings I had in my very first post here. With manual fan speed set to 100% for the entire bench, I completely smashed those scores. Here they are:
BENCH | MIN FPS | AVG FPS | MAX FPS
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Day | 33.1 | 162.0 | 235.8...
I upgraded the BIOS on this 5970 to support manual fan settings. I cranked it up to 100% and ran CoP on all max settings to compare with someone's 2x480GTX rig. Here's the results:
Call of Pripyat Bench - All Max Settings
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2x480GTX in SLI
BENCH | MIN...
Look like it may be in fact throttling. Here is a screenshot of afterburner near the end of the COP benchmark. It has a nice dip in it. But throttling at around 95 C ? I thought the threshold was a little higher then that.
Well I cant find where to modify my signature but here's the specs:
i7 930 @ 4.4ghz
12 GB G.Skill 2000 mhz ram @ 9-9-9-24 (@1600mhz)
evga x58 mobo
PPC&C 850w PSU
XFX 5970 Black Edition (920MHz/1125MHz)
CPU limited, wha?? lol j/k
this sucks though! highly disappointed in my $730 impulse buy...
I got my XFX 5970 Black Edition in today.
I'm thinking I want to go back to 2x5850's, and here's why:
Im using Call of Pripyat benchmark and here's my results:
2x5850 Completely Stock (725 Mhz / 4000 Mhz)
BENCH | MIN FPS | AVG FPS | MAX FPS
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