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MSI R7970 Lightning Review: AMD's HD 7970 Gets the Treatment
Results: Battlefield: Bad Company 2
While Battlefield 3 has taken center stage, this is still a very good title for testing. I think it holds up well in terms of graphics quality and is a nice and well optimized game. Ultra quality with 4X AA and 16X AF with HBOA disabled. A manual runthrough with FRAPS was captured.
It looks as if this particular benchmark is primed to be retired soon as well! This particular game was previously quite friendly towards NVIDIA cards. Now we see the R7970 taking a nice lead over the N580GTX, but really only at the highest resolution. It is not a huge lead on the NVIDIA card, but when compared to the R6970, it appears much more impressive to consider what AMD has done under the hood.
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Nevermind. I can OC the memory now. In the msi utility, to the right of the core voltage there is a small arrow, hit that and you can get the other 2 voltage settings.
I got it up to 1220/1520 The memory is about done. Even 5 MHz and I get corruption. I don't know whether to add a ton more voltage (I have slider space for 75 mV). I tried 1240 on the core, but got some severe image corruption.
I think I will try some stability testing, just let it run for an hour or so instead of 5-10 loops on the metro benches, and see if anything ends up happenings in terms of corruption. As far as voltage goes, I'm not sure if there is a "less is more" type approach, or if you simply add more when you reach corruption.
From my Computer Engineering background I know a bit about how the ripple and stuff affects everything, and I'm not sure just how much ripply is being introduced and so forth, but, needless to say...
925 -> 1220 = 31.89% OC
1375 -> 1520 = 10.55% OC
Wow, not a bad overclock at all. I had overclocked the one I have to 1100 MHz... but I was using Oblivion to play, so I don't know if the vid card was causing problems or that rather unstable game was...
I'm betting the game.
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