Post your ATI Radeon HD 5770 and ATI Radeon HD 5750 Experiences

Seraphic said:
I have owned two 5770 V2s for awhile now. Never really overclocked them though because maybe people say you have to use MSIAfterburn and overvolt them. I don't understand why though, doesn't CCC overclocking increase everything needed when you overclock core/memory?
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You only need to up the volts to get a very high overclock, ccc is limited to 960 core for my cards.

Using amd gpu clock tool i took the first card to 1ghz with 1.25v so that will be the goal for both cards :)
 
e-geek said:
You only need to up the volts to get a very high overclock, ccc is limited to 960 core for my cards.

Using amd gpu clock tool i took the first card to 1ghz with 1.25v so that will be the goal for both cards :)
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Yeah, I have two Sapphire cards so core cap is 960.
I would be happy with an overclock of 950/1350 or maybe 950/1400.
Do you need to overvolt for those?
 
Not much help on this forum then, I will try some good ones and see if anyone will at least answer, let you know how I get on.
 
Have you tried the card in a different system, could be a hardware fault with the card.

I haven't read all your posts so sorry if you have tried that.
 
Tynesider said:
Not much help on this forum then, I will try some good ones and see if anyone will at least answer, let you know how I get on.
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Try starting a help thread with a descriptive title in the video card sub-forum instead of posting in this thread. It's too easy for a post to get lost in a long thread like this. The folks on this forum are very helpful, but I bet a majority have not even seen your original post.
 
I've got an ASUS 5770 running definition in all my games, I love it! only problem is I haft to sacrifice beauty for resolution. which is ok to me... in some games. In FPS games 3 monitors ROCK!! no more having to continually look around, I CAN SEE 160~ degrees in front of me lol! I've ran benchies and there not too pretty. Heaven i get about a 400~ score at 5040x1050. I bought a 5870 last week, but having to RMA it... something wrong, but I was able to keep it stable long enough to bench it and it did exactly double what the 5770 did. I love my 5770 I've got no regrets here =D
 
kniah said:
Try starting a help thread with a descriptive title in the video card sub-forum instead of posting in this thread. It's too easy for a post to get lost in a long thread like this. The folks on this forum are very helpful, but I bet a majority have not even seen your original post.
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I agree.
 
Seraphic said:
Yeah, I have two Sapphire cards so core cap is 960.
I would be happy with an overclock of 950/1350 or maybe 950/1400.
Do you need to overvolt for those?
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I user MSI's Afterburner program to alter the voltages and take the core higher than 960. You don't HAVE to overvolt to get to those if they are stable at normal voltages, but if they aren't then you can up it a little. I wouldn't up it too much without any aftermarket cooling.

I am running 1100 core/1400 mem atm at 1.3V. I think I got a gem of a card. I kept taking it up by 5mhz, running furmark and it just kept climbing. I almost quit at 1010 mhz because I upped the voltage a couple times and it didn't make any difference. It must have just been a dead spot because after I upped it a little more it took off like a rocket.

I think I can take the memory higher (I have enzotech copper sinks on em atm) I am going to put a fan in the side of the case right outside the card and help cool them down because they get really hot and there isn't much airflow in that area of the case. GPU is running a cool 56C under full load though. :D
 
blbrchnk said:
Use MSI's Afterburner program to alter the voltages and take the core higher than 960.

I am running 1100 core/1400 mem atm at 1.3V. I think I got a gem of a card. I kept taking it up by 5mhz, running furmark and it just kept climbing. I almost quit at 1010 mhz because I upped the voltage a couple times and it didn't make any difference. It must have just been a dead spot because after I upped it a little more it took off like a rocket.

I think I can take the memory higher (I have enzotech copper sinks on em atm) I am going to put a fan in the side of the case right outside the card and help cool them down because they get really hot and there isn't much airflow in that area of the case. GPU is running a cool 56C under full load though. :D
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man did you ever luck out
 
Nice card! I've barely tweaked mine at all, but you're giving me the OC twitches. :D May have to do some experimenting tonight.
 
blbrchnk said:
I user MSI's Afterburner program to alter the voltages and take the core higher than 960. You don't HAVE to overvolt to get to those if they are stable at normal voltages, but if they aren't then you can up it a little. I wouldn't up it too much without any aftermarket cooling.

I am running 1100 core/1400 mem atm at 1.3V. I think I got a gem of a card. I kept taking it up by 5mhz, running furmark and it just kept climbing. I almost quit at 1010 mhz because I upped the voltage a couple times and it didn't make any difference. It must have just been a dead spot because after I upped it a little more it took off like a rocket.

I think I can take the memory higher (I have enzotech copper sinks on em atm) I am going to put a fan in the side of the case right outside the card and help cool them down because they get really hot and there isn't much airflow in that area of the case. GPU is running a cool 56C under full load though. :D
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D-d-damn. I wouldn't be surprised if it kept up with a 5830 or 4890 (stock) at those clocks.
 
J3RK said:
Nice card! I've barely tweaked mine at all, but you're giving me the OC twitches. :D May have to do some experimenting tonight.
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It seems like just about all of them do at least 950/1400 which helps out some in removing that memory bandwidth issue and a nice little GPU bump. I would recommend putting a fan near it as the memory chips on the backside get hot quick under load at 1.4 Ghz.

I haven't finished with it, but it seemed like anything over 1.1 Ghz wasn't playing nicely. Of course I never did take it over 3.25V. I am tempted to try 3.5V.
 
When I was benching my XFX5770 I got to 1000/1400 with just one increment up in voltage. I might have been able to go further but chose not to. I now leave it on stock volts and 930/1340 mostly so I can keep the fan quiet
 
I just purchased a XFX 5770 1gb to upgrade my HIS iceQ4 4850 512mb card! hopefully its a decent little upgrade
 
I put some nice little copper coolers on my ram.

Just for fun.


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Yep Enzotech.

I had to take the main cooler off to fit the mainside ones but it was a good excuse to put a tiny dollop of AS5 on the core which helped trim the temps a little further.

They look nice with a blue led light glowing on them.
 
May have to grab a few of those sinks. I really like this card even slightly above stock. Haven't had anything perform badly with it yet, and that's at 1920x1200. (I don't play Crysis anymore, so that's a non-issue.) Had to use low AO on Dirt 2, and drop post processing a notch, and a couple of other minor tweaks, but it runs at sync most of the time. Mass Effect 2 never drops below sync with everything turned up. Those are really the only things I've played lately, but I'm impressed for a $160 card. I usually find myself buying top end, but I don't feel like paying the premiums anymore, especially since I game a bit less than before. This card as an overall package at that price is pretty amazing. Now, if I get the speeds up a bit, (especially with the RAM at my res,) it will be even better. I haven't really OCed videos cards much in the past, but this one looks like it will be fun to work with.

I also have one in my HTPC. My living room TV is only 720p, so this card is ridiculously fast for that. I'll be leaving this one stock for cooling reasons, but maybe if one clocks higher than the other I use that one in my main system. Hadn't thought of that until just now.
 
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Any particular reason I should get the copper Enzotech ram sinks over a basic set of copper ram sinks ($5 on eBay)? Paying a $15 premium just to get Enzotech sinks seems a bit unreasonable ...
 
Not really I guess. I just liked the look of them over the blue Zalman alternative.

Its not so much the quality of the sinks but the quality of the heat tape that fixes them on that was my concern. The Enzos had a spec listing for that.
 
J3RK said:
I usually find myself buying top end, but I don't feel like paying the premiums anymore, especially since I game a bit less than before. This card as an overall package at that price is pretty amazing. Now, if I get the speeds up a bit, (especially with the RAM at my res,) it will be even better. I haven't really OCed videos cards much in the past, but this one looks like it will be fun to work with.
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Yeah I always bought topend gear but I dont bother anymore. I'm happy to settle for $500 160mph performance rather than $1000 200mph when most of my driving is in town so to speak.;)

I rarely if ever run benchmarks anymore, just not interested.
 
Hows This look.
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ncbkb/

bios edited to fix the multi screen flicker issue when overdrive is enabled.

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this is at 1.175volts on the core, 30min Kombustor, 2hrs serious sam hd and 5 loops of heaven demo.

oh yeah also ran fluid mark for around half an hour after tricking the nv drivers into letting me use physx without anything attached to the card :)
 
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I'm picking my first 5750 up from Fedex today after work. I'm hoping to order a second one this week. (The first one was a gift or I woulda bought a 5850 probably).
 
Damn... just checked and XFX doesn't have a BIOS update yet for the 5770. I am definitely getting the dual-screen flickering w/ Overdrive enabled.
 
4x4not said:
Damn... just checked and XFX doesn't have a BIOS update yet for the 5770. I am definitely getting the dual-screen flickering w/ Overdrive enabled.
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they are due to send me their official fixed bios soon, currently im running bios I edited myself with RBE all you need to do is make sure the ram is set to always run at the full clocks.

if amd gpu tool works for you, then that will also do the trick.
 
AzureSky Could you please upload your bios to techpowerup and post the link. Amazing clocks you are getting.

I'm running Asus BIOS on Sapphire HD5770 and it runs well but likes to be right around 1000/1350 for gaming.

Any benchmarks for you clocks?
 
I dont really run benchmark tools, and didnt take any shots of heaven when i was running it.

I will see about uploading my bios when im back at home(i hate wurk)

my cards the XFX 5770 rev1 with the first bios that came out for it, edited with RBE since the xfx bios are locked at low clocking and the asus bios where giving me issues.
 
AzureSky said:
Hows This look.
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ncbkb/

bios edited to fix the multi screen flicker issue when overdrive is enabled.

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this is at 1.175volts on the core, 30min Kombustor, 2hrs serious sam hd and 5 loops of heaven demo.

oh yeah also ran fluid mark for around half an hour after tricking the nv drivers into letting me use physx without anything attached to the card :)
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1200Mhz on a .05V increase? It also says that the stock speed for your ram is 1415. Whats up with that?
 
So this thread got me thinking I'd push a little further. I successful ran a pass thru 3DMark with my 5770 at 1050/1450 with 1.212v. I tried 1075/1475 with 1.25v but it locked up. I do think my core is maybe good for close to 1100 maybe with 1.3v. Memory seemed tapped out between 1450-1460. Which is better than most.
 
Seraphic said:
Also, what is the highest possible overclock on a 5770 using stock voltage?
I hear it's 950/1300, that correct?
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Well the memory voltage is independent of the core voltage I believe so I don't imagine that would inhibit that as much. I have seen memory as high as 1450 or so. 950 on core stock voltage would be about what I would expect though.
 
On Stock I run 950/1350 24/7 with fan on auto. Equally true I can bench run the memory at 1450 and memory voltage is not adjustable. So I could probably run my memory over 1400 but choose to back it down for whatever reason
 
Well I've been benching again. I got some results using 1100Core and 1455Memory. VCore is 1.312v and fan is set to 99% for some reason over 1.3v MSI Afterburner wont let me run 100% oh well. Its seems there is still some overhead left. At 1100Mhz Core and 1.312v I never saw temps over 71ºC even with prolonged 99% GPU usage. I'm done for the day but methinks 1125 is probably the limit here if I took vcore to 1.35v but thats really the edge of my comfort zone 80ºC is not a line I wanna cross even if everyone says they can take it.
 
Loving my 5750 CrossfireX Setup. Scaling at over 80% improvement over the single card. I'm definitely getting the Overdrive screen flicker stuff, but right now I've got enough power with the 2 cards I don't really need to overclock the cards. 88% perf increase in 3dMark Vantage :)
 
I was gonna make a new thread, but seeing as my 5770 OC wasn't very impressive (and I ran across this thread, lol), I'll jus' necro-bum this one.

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4gb ddr 640@5-5-5-21 1t
hd 5770@970/1375 (sapphire vapor-x)

running through my gpu clock, I was finding it hard to get 1000mhz stable w/o taking the voltage higher than I wanted (1.12v, didn't want to chance it since I'm not running water). eventually I found 985mhz stable at 1.137v maxing 61c after 30 min of furmark.

taking the gpu back to stock I started on the memory. I was able to hit 1450mhz stable, but the best performance seemed to show from 1375mhz after several tests (I can only guess that errors started to occur at the higher frequencies, though tests didn't seem to show any problems).

first test with both gpu and memory OCed was a failure. 975/1375 was stable, but after testing lower settings I found 970/1375 to show the best performance. temps staying under 62c, which is pretty nice considering ambient temps were in the 80s (fahrenheit)(it's summer and I get no ac... lol).

another odd thing I found was that my original clock of 960/1375 showed a performance jump of almost 50% by enabling msi afterburner's unofficial overclock, and I'm still scratching my head over this because I though all it did was remove the soft cap. if anyone can figure out what happened here it would be much appreciated, lol.

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Has anyone figured out how to fix the dual screen flicker issue yet? I didn't see on the support page on the xfx site for bios upgrade. any help would be great.
 
I believe the default ATI BIOS limits it to 960/1400. I haven't flashed my 5770 Vapor-Xs but thats as high as it'll let me take it no matter what the voltage is.
 
LAiN_OfTheWired said:
I believe the default ATI BIOS limits it to 960/1400. I haven't flashed my 5770 Vapor-Xs but thats as high as it'll let me take it no matter what the voltage is.
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with ati overdrive yes, the highest you can take it is 960/1445 (with msi afterburner's unofficial overclocking enabled you're only limited by your hardware).

after some good research I found out that there are more than one version of the sapphire 5770 vapor-x, I was lucky enough to get one with the l6788a voltage regulator which allows for up to 1.350v (originally though it to be locked because increasing the voltage didn't seem to increase stability), so after some dickering around I was able to get a bit more out of my clocks.

currently running 1000 core/1420 memory at 1.164v and reluctant to take it any higher (I'm sure it will and it's still staying very cool at under 62c after 3 min of furmark).
 
After running for a couple of months on a diamond 5870 with
BenQ E2420HD - hdmi (24")
BenQ G2412HD - dvi (24")
Neovo - dp -> bizlink active dvi (19")
and having no problems what so ever.. I purchased a BenQ G2420HD (24") and started having blanking, graphics corruption, etc..

The first problem I identified was that I wasn't using a dual link DVI cable and switched that, but it didn't change much.

The second thing I tried was getting a powered usb hub (five port logix) and most of my screen blinking issues went away, however I did notice that the bizlink dongle really doesn't like to work properly if it gets too hot so I moved it to a more ventilated spot.

Now with the constant blanking reduced to every few minutes, with continued graphical corruption (mostly little pinky wide horizontal stripes, that reminded me of monitor snow in back in the vga days), I embarked on testing bioses.

After running through most of the bioses suggested on boards here and elsewhere, I finally decided to check the version numbers on all the bioses on the techpowerup vga bios collection.

The one that is the most acceptable is http://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/75011/Powercolor.HD5870.1024.100302.html

It has a bios version of 012.019.000.002, and has fixed almost all the blinking and graphics corruption, and wide snow.

After days running in this configuration there is only one acceptable but annoying issue left. After I have left my computer for a while and all the monitors have gone to sleep, when I wake them back up the DP one will show the wide snow (maybe half the time) when it wakes up. The easiest solution I've found to correct this (I'm using windows 7 and still have my settings to blink the screens when doing security stuff) is to hit ctrl-alt-del which will blink the screens and then hit esc to go back to the desktop. This rids me of the snow for the session.

I'm guessing that the issue is due to signal driving strength when the monitors wake up (my machine never sleeps, yes this is intentional). My next steps are a) find the dvi->hdmi adapter I have stashed somewhere, in the hopes of lowering the signal requirement of the dvi monitor b) find a active dp to hdmi adapter to use instead of the active dp to dvi.

*note* just ordered http://www.cableclub.com/mini-displayport-hdmi-adapter-blackhalogenfree-approve-p-3053.html

*edit* using a dvi to hdmi dongle didn't change anything, no better, no worse.
 
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anyone got an AC Accelero L2 Pro cooler on a 5770? wondering if its worth the upgrade (~$20)
 
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