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Did I break my 7950?

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August 12, 2014 4:54:41 PM

So, today i tried overclocking my GPU, which is a AMD Sapphire 7950 OC w/ Boost, Model # 100352 - 3L.

Now when i was testing my GPU, i used MSI Afterburner for the overclock, and Heaven Benchmark 4.0 to do benchmarking.

Now, I got up to 1230MHz on stock voltage when i started to see random geometric shapes on Heaven. I then found out you could fix this issue by raising the Core Voltage. Now i had an issue doing this as MSI Afterburner wouldnt let me change it. No matter what i did.

I made sure "Unlock voltage control" was checked.

I went to the .cfg file did the "I confirm that overclocking my card will not be support etc etc etc

I also went to regedit and changed "Enable UPLS" to "0".

But couldn't change the voltage. I then downloaded Sapphire Trixx and found out that VDDC is apparently the same as Core voltage.

*Note* - I also downloaded GPU Tools and that program said i did not have voltage control capabilities, i did my research and this card can infact change its voltage, idk why it said that.

Now around this part get a little fuzzy coz i've been at this for literally 6 hours now.

SO i started to play around with the voltages and clocks. There was even one time when i ran the benchmark at 1240MHz Core Clock and 1300 VDDC (1.3V i believe) and it ran, GPU temps got to 71 degress though and i one ran it once. I then came to this problem, every setting even stock clocks (925 mhz) i would see the geometric patterns from when i had the clock set at 1230. I managed to fix this by restarting the computer.

So now theres no more shapes but i noticed performance is noticeable slower and choppy, to where areas where it used to be 60 fps is now 25 or so.

And ive tried to play games like Hitman: Absolution, in which it looks like a very laggy COD4 server (or atleast how it looked on consoles) where if you were to take 3 steps, you would go 500. It was almost like cheating coz the AI couldnt shoot me.

And in a racing game like Assetto Corsa, the ground would vibrate/flash and when you drive its like it 30 fps but in slow motion.

So guys seriously, did i just damage my card or is this a driver issue? I did try to run MSI and Trixx Together coz i wanted OSD of FPS and such. I also did a lot of system editing so ill just add he links of the guides i used.

So, is my card fried?

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-overclock-your-video-card-...

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=338906

http://www.overclock.net/a/getting-started-with-radeon-...

System:
Processor: AMD FX8320 Black Edition (Stock clocks)
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
PSU: Corsair TX750
GPU: Sahppire 7950 OC w/ Boost 3GB

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August 12, 2014 5:08:25 PM

Sounds like you might have cooked it. video cards are a lot less forgiving than cpu's.
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August 12, 2014 5:40:55 PM

You cooked it like a fresh turkey on Christmas Eve where you're on the table and with all your family but really want to go in your room and play Counter Strike: Source with an AWP and Deagle combo on cs_office but then switch to de_dust2 and you're a counter terrorist and you get a great shot with your AWP and get 10 kills in a row but then get owned and finish with a 10:20 KDR and leave and then you play tf2 and get bored so you go play some... Am I still talking sorry I'm a little stoned still from earlier should I even press Submit... Here goes nothing!
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August 13, 2014 7:06:06 PM

ry4n_1337 said:
You cooked it like a fresh turkey on Christmas Eve where you're on the table and with all your family but really want to go in your room and play Counter Strike: Source with an AWP and Deagle combo on cs_office but then switch to de_dust2 and you're a counter terrorist and you get a great shot with your AWP and get 10 kills in a row but then get owned and finish with a 10:20 KDR and leave and then you play tf2 and get bored so you go play some... Am I still talking sorry I'm a little stoned still from earlier should I even press Submit... Here goes nothing!


Only cause your a fellow smoker.
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August 13, 2014 7:09:04 PM

:) 
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August 13, 2014 7:44:09 PM

ry4n_1337 said:
:) 


I will say it is fine now.
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