Hoi there,
After tearing my hair out with 5970 crossfire for a couple weeks I decided to throw in the towel and replace them both with XFX 7970s BE cards.
The first one arrived and I've been playing away with it just fine till yesterday when it started behaving oddly.
The card runs supercool and is super stable so I had it running 1050Mhz Core and 1450Mhz Mem no problems temps are around the mid to high 70s under load no problems there. (up from 1000Mhz and 1425Mhz Stock)
Anyway I have my old 5970 in the bottom pcie slot powering my second screen and my first screen attached to the 7970, my 5970 sits there mining and playing whatever video stream I wish.
Last I was on my desktop, no games just browsing when the screen attached to the 7970 went blank and the 7970 fans went straight up to 100% and remained there. I could see all this unfolding on my other screen since the one attached to the 5970 seemed to be completely unaffected and had msi afterburner up monitoring the temps/fans etc
I had to restart the pc to stop this, and then again after another 15 mins the same thing happened. After this point I turned the pc off at the wall, discharged any capacitors in the system and restarted and all seemed fine.
Then this morning I was playing away on metro 2033, 5970 mining away when the 7970 fan shot straight back up to 100% (no blank screen this time). And I had to jump out of the game to lower the fans manually in afterburner. The temps were fine (about 78-80) when it decided to do this.
Any ideas what's up? Dodgy card?
After tearing my hair out with 5970 crossfire for a couple weeks I decided to throw in the towel and replace them both with XFX 7970s BE cards.
The first one arrived and I've been playing away with it just fine till yesterday when it started behaving oddly.
The card runs supercool and is super stable so I had it running 1050Mhz Core and 1450Mhz Mem no problems temps are around the mid to high 70s under load no problems there. (up from 1000Mhz and 1425Mhz Stock)
Anyway I have my old 5970 in the bottom pcie slot powering my second screen and my first screen attached to the 7970, my 5970 sits there mining and playing whatever video stream I wish.
Last I was on my desktop, no games just browsing when the screen attached to the 7970 went blank and the 7970 fans went straight up to 100% and remained there. I could see all this unfolding on my other screen since the one attached to the 5970 seemed to be completely unaffected and had msi afterburner up monitoring the temps/fans etc
I had to restart the pc to stop this, and then again after another 15 mins the same thing happened. After this point I turned the pc off at the wall, discharged any capacitors in the system and restarted and all seemed fine.
Then this morning I was playing away on metro 2033, 5970 mining away when the 7970 fan shot straight back up to 100% (no blank screen this time). And I had to jump out of the game to lower the fans manually in afterburner. The temps were fine (about 78-80) when it decided to do this.
Any ideas what's up? Dodgy card?