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Help overclocking my 7970

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stevelopez91

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Hey guys, I've had my XFX R7970 Black Edition for nearly a month now. I left it at stock settings for about a week, but then got an itch to get some overclockage out of it. I've been using the default catalyst overclocking feature to set the card to 1125 core / 1575 memory with the power control slider set to +20%. It's been fine, but I want to try and shoot for 1200 / 1625, which the catalyst controller cannot achieve. I tried using MSI afterburner and did the whole unlocking process, Unofficial Overclocking EULA = I confirm that I am aware of unofficial overclocking limitations and fully understand that MSI will not provide me any support on it, and also changed the "UnofficialOverclockingMode" to 1. It successfully unlocked the sliders, but now the sliders were not displaying what speeds the card was at, and furthermore MSI wouldn't let me unlock the voltage feature. After going to settings and unlocking the voltage feature, MSI wouldn't register the change. So basically two problems here, clock speeds are not being displayed on afterburner, and the voltage slider will not unlock. Any suggestions? Maybe other programs?
 
Make sure you have the latest beta version of Afterburner.
If your choices are not showing up, that's usually the problem.
You want this one: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=358990

Go into settings to unlock voltage controls.
Secondly.....when you make your overclocks, click apply and then click save, the little numbers will blink, select a slot and then "lock " the profiles with the little padlock icon.

Make sure you slide power tune to +20% on the afterburner settings page.

of course you have to unlock "unofficial overclocking" in the AB config file as you have done.

don't forget to set some kind of fan profile be it user defined, automatic, or static.

Another point I don't know the answer to.....Afterburner works primarily on reference cards, if the XFX card has any modified components, like they are known to do......it may not work.

If all else fails, try Sapphire Trixx. It's a good utility, but doesn't have all the bells and whistles AB does.
 
magoo said:
Make sure you have the latest beta version of Afterburner.
If your choices are not showing up, that's usually the problem.
You want this one: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=358990

Go into settings to unlock voltage controls.
Secondly.....when you make your overclocks, click apply and then click save, the little numbers will blink, select a slot and then "lock " the profiles with the little padlock icon.

Make sure you slide power tune to +20% on the afterburner settings page.

of course you have to unlock "unofficial overclocking" in the AB config file as you have done.

don't forget to set some kind of fan profile be it user defined, automatic, or static.

Another point I don't know the answer to.....Afterburner works primarily on reference cards, if the XFX card has any modified components, like they are known to do......it may not work.

If all else fails, try Sapphire Trixx. It's a good utility, but doesn't have all the bells and whistles AB does.
Click to expand...

The version you sent me worked! :) Everything that I was complaining about is now gone. I did it the lazy/stupid way and just said to hell with it slapped on 1200 / 1625 with a 1205 core volt setting. To my surprise, it's been completely stable with the max temperature being 70 at peak after about 30 minutes of Battlefield 3. This is a beast of a card I gotta say.
 
Through all that excitement I even forgot to say thanks :p. Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated.
 
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