HIS 7970 FPS Drop Issue

[akpower13]

Hey guys, I have an ongoing issue with my recently purchased HIS IceQ 7970. The thing is I keep getting frame drops in games like Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4 Beta, Sleeping Dogs and even APB: Reloaded. Games like League of Legends or FIFA 14 run fine on the other hand.

(All running at 1920x1080) I had a GTX 570 before I upgraded and every game ran smooth on pretty high quality settings.



I've tried:

- Toggling Vsync on and off

- Reducing overall graphics quality to medium/low settings

- Reinstalling OS and formatting Hard Drive

- Overclocking CPU to 3,5GHz

- Increasing GPU and memory Clock

- Switching to beta drivers (also wiping earlier drivers)

- Disabling AMD's Cool n Quiet in BIOS



My temperatures are fine. CPU goes up to about 30c-32c and my GPU to about 60-65c while running games like Sleeping Dogs.

FPS Drops often occur while looking at an area with lots of buildings and bright areas (like the map "Operation Firestorm" in BF3). Dark areas with not much "bloom" or brightness are usually fine.

I've already came to the conclusion that my CPU was bottlenecking but i've looked around the Internet and saw that many people didn't have issues with their X4/X6 CPU's while running a 7970.



Specs:

- HIS ICeQ 7970 (925/1375) not OC edition

- AMD Phenom II X6 1055t @2.8GHz (stock)

- G.Skill Ripjaws 6gb 1333mhz

- Enermax Modu 700W

- Gigabyte 870 A-UD3

- Corsair H60 watercooler

- System HDD: Seagate 1TB 7200rpm 64mb cache

- 2nd HDD: WD 750gb 7200rpm 32mb cache

OS: Windows 7 64 bit SP1

Drivers: 13.9

Appreciate some help.

 

[eatmypie]

Your power supply most likely doesn't have the right amp's on its 12v rail or rails. The overall max watts of the power supply isn't the only thing that you should look at. I've seen even some 750w older power supplies fail when it comes to amps on the 12v rail. But it looks like your power supply has 1 12v rail and a 2nd 12v rail at 25 amp's, which should be more than enough. But if your power supply is over 2 years old it can also start failing slowly. I would probably just buy something like a corsair 750w or if you never plan on upgrading something like a 550w would do. I would buy the power supply first before you consider sending the card in for rma. Just send the power supply back if you still have the same problem.

 

[Mopkap]

Try this:
1. Refresh your Experience Index.
2. Open Cmd as an Administrator and type sfc/scannow.
3. Make sure all of your components are installed properly.
4. Make sure everything is up-to-date (e.g. Windows, drivers).
If you don't know how to do some of these things, 'm sure Google will help you. 😉

 

[iam2thecrowe]

someone else recently had this issue, and it was something about core voltage of the gpu throttling.

"Ok if anyone's interested:

The GPU was voltage throttling itself, to solve this I had to increase the Power Limit in MSI Afterburner and the judderiness just vanished.

Have to say that is a pretty big deal breaker, Powercolor will get overwhelmed with RMA demands if they don't fix this. "

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1862842/280x-stuttering-microstuttering.html