Hi,
So i recently bought the graphics card in the thread title. Watching videos works great on my 2 23inch 1080p monitors. The gpu under clocks itself at 300mhz and memory clocks in at 150 mhz, the temp usually idles at about 28c with my power limit settings at 0%. Fan speed is usually at 10%.
But then we get to the gaming, oh boy. So I have uninstalled the ATI drivers after I experienced my first few BSOD. At first I was using the windows updated ones. Then I cleaned em out, went direct to AMD got both the 14.4 and 14.4beta. So neither worked, still BSOD.
Then I went and played around in the AMD CCC and after tooling around I started using Heaven's Benchmark, while having the CCC on and adjusting my settings in graphics override. So here's the pickle, everything under clocked setting 965mhz works it seems. While using the Heaven's benchmark 3.0 I had Ultra Settings and Anti Aliasing set at x4. On the final around I even had tessellation set to normal. But once I ticked my clock settings to 965 [975 being stock btw] I had huge graphical errors, artifacts everywhere. Just a huge mess. My temperatures after running the benchmark for about 10 min to 15 were around 59c. My fans were going at 41%. And my memory clock which I have not changed from stock setting is at 1400mhz under load.
I have increased my power limit to 20% while just trying to see if stock 975mhz would work. It didn't help and as soon as I started using the benchmark the system would crash. Aside from the benchmark I did play smite and CS GO last night, smite worked fine when I underclocked my gpu. This was before I played with the settings today to find out 960mhz seems to work stable. Same with GO, so I don't yet know the results there if I start playing them what'll happen. But Heavens Benchmark seems to do a good job of putting my gpu through the ringer so I wouldn't expect to have any problems. When heaven's benchmark is running I get 99% load on the gpu.
Anyway my specs.
cpu: intel i7 860 @ 2.8ghz
Mobo: gigabyte P55A-UD3 PCIe 2.0 x16
ram: kingston hyperx blu 1333mhz 8gb
storage: Samsung 840evo 120gb and WD 500GB 6GBps both in ACHI
psu: Antec bp550w
My question is, am I looking at an issue with the gpu itself being broken, the drivers being bad, or is my motherboard or power supply not good enough?
Any help is appreciated since I would like to get the most value out of the gpu. But I think I could live with 960mhz if it indeed doesn't crash after say several hrs of gaming which I haven't done yet.
So i recently bought the graphics card in the thread title. Watching videos works great on my 2 23inch 1080p monitors. The gpu under clocks itself at 300mhz and memory clocks in at 150 mhz, the temp usually idles at about 28c with my power limit settings at 0%. Fan speed is usually at 10%.
But then we get to the gaming, oh boy. So I have uninstalled the ATI drivers after I experienced my first few BSOD. At first I was using the windows updated ones. Then I cleaned em out, went direct to AMD got both the 14.4 and 14.4beta. So neither worked, still BSOD.
Then I went and played around in the AMD CCC and after tooling around I started using Heaven's Benchmark, while having the CCC on and adjusting my settings in graphics override. So here's the pickle, everything under clocked setting 965mhz works it seems. While using the Heaven's benchmark 3.0 I had Ultra Settings and Anti Aliasing set at x4. On the final around I even had tessellation set to normal. But once I ticked my clock settings to 965 [975 being stock btw] I had huge graphical errors, artifacts everywhere. Just a huge mess. My temperatures after running the benchmark for about 10 min to 15 were around 59c. My fans were going at 41%. And my memory clock which I have not changed from stock setting is at 1400mhz under load.
I have increased my power limit to 20% while just trying to see if stock 975mhz would work. It didn't help and as soon as I started using the benchmark the system would crash. Aside from the benchmark I did play smite and CS GO last night, smite worked fine when I underclocked my gpu. This was before I played with the settings today to find out 960mhz seems to work stable. Same with GO, so I don't yet know the results there if I start playing them what'll happen. But Heavens Benchmark seems to do a good job of putting my gpu through the ringer so I wouldn't expect to have any problems. When heaven's benchmark is running I get 99% load on the gpu.
Anyway my specs.
cpu: intel i7 860 @ 2.8ghz
Mobo: gigabyte P55A-UD3 PCIe 2.0 x16
ram: kingston hyperx blu 1333mhz 8gb
storage: Samsung 840evo 120gb and WD 500GB 6GBps both in ACHI
psu: Antec bp550w
My question is, am I looking at an issue with the gpu itself being broken, the drivers being bad, or is my motherboard or power supply not good enough?
Any help is appreciated since I would like to get the most value out of the gpu. But I think I could live with 960mhz if it indeed doesn't crash after say several hrs of gaming which I haven't done yet.
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