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Why are you using 3 dimms on a dual channel motherboard? Take a dimm out. You want 2 slots filled of the same color.

I have been using gpu tweak with my 6950. I like it a lot better than smartdoctor (sd never made it past an hour before it was uninstalled). The one thing I wish they would have would be an option for sloped fan ramp but you can put as many steps in there that you want so it works fine.

Are the games all at the same settings as with the 280 because looking at typical benchmark scores, the 6950 should give you roughly double the frames. I think most games will detect what settings are "best" when you first load them so you are probably at higher settings than what you were with...

12.1 seems to run fine. The main thing is to make sure you try out the beta flash. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1676311&highlight=driver+stopped+responding+flash if you have any issues.

Is your card a reference card? Should have AMD on the board by the PCIe connector. Seems that some are laser cut so you cannot unlock them. Some cannot be unlocked with conventional methods. Search for the "chewing gum 6950". No idea if it is reliable.

Look on the motherboard. All the ports have labels next to them. You have the manual page. Look, compare, find and plug in. The next page in the manual should have the Marvell ports on it.

What's with the voltage regulator?

You want 0/1 as those run off the Intel controller. The other 6GBs ports are Marvell. Intel usually has a little better performance however some boards, Gigabyte has released updated BIOS that supposedly improves Marvell performance. Also, make sure the Crucial has the latest firmware 309 or newer

There are adapters for molex to PCIe

RMA time.

It just died. Not necessarily due to heat or anything else. Just happens.

Make sure you get a B2K key.

I have an Asus DCII 6950 that is a 3-slot and around 295mm long iirc. I think the companies try to keep the reference design within the typical length of cards and it is usually the ones with more extreme cooling that are longer in length. No clue what is coming ahead as I don't stay in the...

Components can be fine one minute and not working the next. I have seen a new Corsair PSU go bad over night while in sleep mode. I have had my HT DVD player stop reading disc 2 hours after I last turned it off due to a bad transport. Things happen. Do as Seithennin suggested and try your...

GPU. Do you have another video card you can test with? Otherwise time to test out the RMA.

It will never stay exactly at what it is set. There will always be some variance in it as it is never locked on that exact number. If you want to see you speed at or above what your multi is for your OCD, then set it to 100.3 or something of that sort. Mine is usually at what it is set to or...

Turn Blur off, drop from HBAO to the next level down and possibly drop the Anisotropic. That should smooth you out.

Search on google on flashing the 6950 to the 6970 using 6950 modified bios. Same programs can be used to read the current bios off your card and modify and flash back. Make sure you keep a backup of the original BIOS.

You are currently limited on the drivers that work with the 560ti 448. If you want quiet, get a card that has at least 2 fans and a heatpipe like that GIgabyte or the Asus DCII or MSI twin. Just be careful with the card dimensions. I have an Asus 6950 DCII that is as quiet as my case fans but...

I have been totally pleased with my UD3H-B3. There is a good chance people did not update the BIOS and were having issues with something or who-knows-what. Could just be that they got the wrong board to begin with.

Did you have it connected to a network with mapped drive or have something else connected to it (external drive) that is not connected to it now? After a reboot, does it do the same thing?

Probably the last stick (slot3 with slot0 being the first slot by the CPU) as it is in the 6-8 GB range with the issue.

I have had a Corsair PSU go bad. I was assuming it was the 5V Standby rail that went out and could not get the system to boot until I tried a different supply. It would power fans and voltages checked fine but it would not power the system on. Perfect example of how useless the "paperclip"...

An old motherboard. If you cannot find any, I have one in the scrap bin (P4 mobo but I would assume the clips are the same)

Have you tried powering up with a fan on the connector that you shorted? Use a fan you don't mind throwing away. Sounds like you released the smoke from the board and is destined for recycling.

Get a small box fan or something and get some air movement across the motherboard and card.

Take a screenshot. If it show in the screenshot, that should tell you it is the videocard. If not, then it is past the card (cable or monitor)

If you purchased from another member here, have you talked with them to see how it was working in their system?

Set the BIOS to PCIE and have iGP as always enabled. Mode i you connect the monitor to the motherboard output and your discrete card will supposedly power down to idle when you are not in games and such. iGP will be used for video encoding etc and will be faster than discrete. Mode d you...

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2012/01/30/amd_radeon_hd_7950_video_card_review/4 http://hardocp.com/article/2011/12/22/amd_radeon_hd_7970_video_card_review/4 Look at the bottom apples-to-apples. You are basically looking at 10 fps difference. I would think another 6950 would be a lot better...

Good luck trying to get stability at Normal voltage on 4 sticks of RAM.

If you are going to get an SSD, just use it as your main drive. SSD caching was a great idea for smaller SSD drive but once you get to 64+ drives, it is pointless to use a spinner as your main drive. Assuming you would have 8 GB RAM, disable your pagefile on all drives. This will save a ton...

Ryland, What version of BIOS and have you bumped the DIMM voltage up yet?

Here is one for you. Friend had a 5850 crossfire and was getting stuttering. The fix :: Changed from Chrome to using Firefox as the browser.

iirc, mine would do the 4.2 turbo just fine. I think 4.5 and above I had to start messing with voltages. Settled on 4.7 at under 1.4 on the voltage. I may roll it back a tad (especially for summer - 25 room temp max core is at 81 in IBT) as I doubt I will notice any difference in anything...

What are you planning to do with your processor? If you are just wanting a mid-oc until you go water then 1 fan should be fine for now. It is also highly dependent on your case cooling. Minimal air flow will suffocate the HSF and cause higher temps.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1652288

Info like what we are cooling would be needed.

Make sure you are plugging into the black or red ports. The Blue ports by the audio are the 3.0 ports and will only be active in Windows.

http://support.amd.com/us/certified/power-supplies/Pages/details.aspx?item=547