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Asus Ares 2 benchmarks/games problems

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sergi00

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Hi Folks,

I am the owner of an Asus ARES 2. I manage to install it and everything is running fine. At first I did not bother to do some benchmark, I did not have time... But, I recently try to play Burnout Paradise and everything was so slow... I previously have a 7970Ghz ROG and was happy with it.

So I decided to run some benchmark... Be ready to laugh... 3Dmark11 gives me an overall score of P2986 (graphics 2812 and physics 8747). I try numerous time to improve it, remove drivers, reset, config... The only test I still did not manage to do is to make a clean install of windows...

Here is my config :
Asus Maximus V Formula
Intel Xeon E3-1290v2
32Gb ram
Asus Ares 2
Samsung SSD 840 500Gb
DELL 3007WFP (2560*1600)

I notice something strange during the tests... GPUz show me that one of the 7970 is running at full speed ALL the time (1100/1750) and the other one is always switching between max and min freq, even when I do nothing on the computer...

At this point I do not know what to do. I try numerous different drivers and get the same results.

Anyone have and idea ?

Cheers,

Sergio
 
i forget to include it in the list...
Seasonic M12 II 750w.

By the way, before my ROG 7970Ghz, I had a 7990 devil 13 and everything was perfectly working, the same setup. I change it because of the coil noise... And if I remember correctly, both of the gpu were idle at the same time. On the Ares, on of them is at max always. Strange.
 
I test using the latest drivers and the lastest beta drivers. I also try the one included in the GPU package.

I have one last test to do is to do a fresh windows 7 install with the latest drivers... Bit it is a pain !
 
sergi00 said:
i forget to include it in the list...
Seasonic M12 II 750w.

By the way, before my ROG 7970Ghz, I had a 7990 devil 13 and everything was perfectly working, the same setup. I change it because of the coil noise... And if I remember correctly, both of the gpu were idle at the same time. On the Ares, on of them is at max always. Strange.
Click to expand...

As long as the PSU is OK, it should be fine. That's a good PSU.
 
Hi Folks !

Some news from my problem using Asus ARES 2. As I made several new tests, I update it.

Quick reminder. My setup is composed of :
- Asus Formula V
- Xeon E3 1290v2
- 32Gb ram
- SSD Samsung 840 500Go
- Lian Li PC-V750
- DELL 3007WFP (2560*1600)
- Asus ARES 2
- Windows 7 Pro 64

I also have the following card :
- Asus MATRIX 7970
- VTX 7990

My computer is not overclocked. The CPU is running natively at 4.1Ghz using the default setup (one core).

I did not have any problem installing and using the Asus ARES 2 at first. After one week I decide to play Burnout Paradise (a not so recent game). With the Asus MATRIX 7970 I did not have any problem to run it at native resolution and with all graphics option.
With the ARES 2 I immediately notice some lags and the game crashed... I decided to run some benchmark and installed 3DMARK11.

Fasten you seatbelt... My score was around P3000 !!!! I managed to desactivate ULPS and change the default value for anisotropy and so on, but still not the right value !!!!
I must precise that, at first, I made the test using the lastest available drivers. Everything was always by default, I did not made any O/C (I do not do that anymore...). As my Windows was not a clean install, I decided to take a new Samsung 840 500Go and fresh install Windows 7 Pro 64 on it.

I also install the latest beta drivers (13.8), the ethernet driver and that's all (I need to have access to Internet in order to have a score for 3DMARK11).

I get the same poor result.

After desinstalling the drivers using the official AMD tools (or reinstalling Windows, it gaves the same results...), I decided to swap my Asus ARES 2 with the VTX 7990. I do not use it because of the coil noise but was happy to have another 7990 around...
The results were quite differents... Now I get around P14000 with everything default. I get the correct score !

To put it simply, I do not understand what happened. I try to remove all bias in my tests , and thus made several fresh install of Windows and ATI drivers, I still get the same results.

Do I miss something ? Is my card dead ? Except this benchmark problem, everything runs fine.

I really need help on this one ;)
 
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