M17x R2 7970m CrossfireX Ultimate Installation and Tweaking Guide

Meh, I didn't really have a choice if i wanted to get such a machine... i got it through a trade for a clevo p150em. Then slowly added the cards, HDD's, ram.
Otherwise I'd never have had the money if I had to buy it upfront.

 

Devil! Excellent idea! flingin
It is necessary to order from Eurocom one 780m and the heat sink for a card, and then can be at me will PhysX! ! !: D crossfirex wanted, PhysX wanted I pulled out amd and I inserted nvidia! Beauty, transformer!: D
Life goes on!

 

My girl is like....."and you are disassembling it again ?!... no...come to bed lol"

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Thanks flingin, I laughed as a horse! COOL

 

Hey Guys, So I have a new 7970m, no crossfire yet. Bought it used and when I plugged it in it started right up. Could you look at this and see if it looks right for my M17x R2? Dont really know if it should be flashed or with what. Its idleing in the mid 30s but hits into the 90s well running 3dmark11 or games.



thanks

 

... just posting to see if page 162 is displayed..

edit: Hmmm wierd. Page 162 is a ghost

nitsun69, check my response on T|I. Your card is massively overclocked probably overvolted as well.

 

It also has a quite new VBIOS version.

 

162 ghost, yea
Nitsun, please make a dump of your vbios before tinkering with it, it's very new and deserves some attenshun Know how to do vbios dumps using atiman?
Also, really nice clocks. If it's stable, you should start trying to lower voltages and finding a sweetspot for heat/performance.

 

Catalyst 13.11 beta 9.2 is out.

Feature Highlights of The AMD Catalyst 13.11 Beta9.2 Driver for Windows

- Call of Duty®: Ghost - Improves anti-aliasing performance, and updates the AMD CrossFire™ profile
- AMD Radeon™ R9 290 Series - PowerTune update to reduce variance of fan speed / RPM
- Resolves intermittent crashes seen in legacy DirectX®​ 9 applications

 

I don't remember when was last whql. ... AMD is a joke lol...

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Well this new driver suddenly pumped my GPU to 13700 using 885 and 1285 clocks.
Currently undervolting the card.

New tests were ranging from 13500 -13700

 

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd_catalyst_13.11_mobility_betav9.2.exe

 

Sorry Sangmaru, I flashed it before seeing this. It is one of reborn2003 used cards. The guy he sold it to wasnt able to use it and sent it my way.

 

Sad you didnt save it
Perhaps the newer VBIOS could help our stuttering GPU's.

On th enew driver:
My new GPU score was high but the lagging was still there.
Have to reduce speed to prevent it. (825 / 1175 seems to work better)

If i increased the voltage to 1050, and increased clocks i could probably go past 14K but would still have the lagging problem.

Wonder how high alienhack can go now?

 

Maybe you can ask reborn2003 if he still has a copy of that vBIOS?

 

Mmm strange.
They are mostly 017, not 024.
Newest ive seen has been 022 and dont think its part of the SVL7 vbios package.
Gots to have a look. .

 

Ask the guy who reborn2003 sold the card to. Its possible that reborn2003 sold him the card with svl7's mod vBIOS (Dell 015.017) and that buyer flashed that newer CLEVO version to try and get it to work.

edit: It seems that version was meant for the P370EM and was enduro enabled! Look at the GPU-Z pic. How in the world was it working in an R2???

 

Wish I could tell you how, Just plugged it in, installed the new beta driver and it fired up no issues.

 

i will try tommorow , although am tired of installing a new ATI beta driver every 2 days and having to disable ULPS... Just remember that i run on a vanilla unmoded PSU... although it doesnt power crash . my Cpu crashes first at (25x all cores) if i dont raise the votage


PS. sorry for not posting often but the past week i upgraded my desktop pc with a new (used) mobo inorder to Overclock my i5 to 4.2 stable , and excanged my 680gtx for 2x 7970s Crossfire... also i bought a new mercedes as my peugeot got on fire... so past week has been too busy...

by the way you dont want to now the gpu score of the 2 x 7970s... its huge... the cards even got bottlenecked in crysis 3 by the i5 @4Ghz.. they were working at just 60-90% while the cpu was at 100% all cores...

BUT our oced 920xm stands close to the overclocked i5 (@ 4-4.2) in physics score. so our cpu is ok for gaming and benching for the moment...

have you tried my test bios to solve your stuttering GPU's. ? it works for all the people that tried it.. i have both my cards flashed with it and i have a super stable crossfire...

 

'I think that Sangemaru has same issue and i think he has tried.
Doesnt hurt to try.

Ill try again in a few days.

 

I think nitsun69 has DELL. GPUZ says dell is the subvendor.
Your link says Clevo Kapok.

 

The subvendor field on GPU-Z refers to the motherboard the card is in and not the actual card itself... weird I know

See reborn's sale thread here. His are the exact same cards I'm running atm and he mentions his got the Dell vBIOS on... so the second guy had to have flashed that newer CLEVO version.

 

Sorry to hear about the fire.. maybe you shouldn't have overclocked the 920XM in the car. I'm surprised my table hasn't caught on fire yet Congrats on the new car and GPU's!

We can handle your desktop scores, post it up for comparison. Technically we have two desktop 7870's in CrossFire so we won't be too jealous

I remember seeing a video some time ago where a guy was playing Crysis 3 and his fps was a bit low for 3-way SLi with GTX 680's. He then alt-tabbed out, ran some CPU app that made the CPU run at 100% load, alt-tabbed back in and fps went up quite a bit. He said the game wasn't using the CPU efficiently or something. I'll try to find the link.

edit: Here's the video. I remember trying it on the 920XM and the timers were correct, give it a shot on your i5.

 

Nospheratu, what VBIOS do you use?

The 013 version from Alienhack is slow as h.... for me.
No stuttering or lagging, but at 11900 I could have done the same using 800 / 1150 clocks in the 022 without beeing able to see the issue.

 

Ahhhh Alienhacks VBIOS has only 750 / 1000

 

Yeah, we thought it was a vBIOS created for the unreleased 7950M as the clocks match up.

I'm running the forced 0.975v CLEVO vBIOS from the mod pack in my sig.

 

Fantastic.
Your VBIOS did the trick for me to in 3dmark11 stopping the lagging.
Currently running 975 as you 875 / 1250 and 13600 GPU score. Is that far from your score with apx same speed?
Havent tried overvolting and much higher clocks.
Did try a bit higher but second test same clocks was locking up next test. First test above 14 000.

13200 - 13400 stock clocks.

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-940 Processor,Alienware

 

Well well.
Soon ready for 11 K total.

Above 15K for GPU.
My CPU slows me down.

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-940 Processor,Alienware

Clocks for this test 975 / 1375 stock voltage and Clevo VBIOS. Temp ending up in 60 flat on both GPU's
CPU had to have very high OC for these numbers. 27X, 75mV BIOS and 5% BIOS.
Need to get another CPU.

1000 / 1400 was shut down directely first test, need more than stock voltage probably or my PSU had enough with 110W CPU.

 

When you say stock voltage, are you talking about the stock 1050V CLEVO vBIOS? If so, that's pretty awesome temps man

Try another run but disable the 5% OC and +85mV. Set multi's to 25x across all cores with a 90/82 TDP/TDC in ThrottleStop. Sometimes my XM gives me better physics scores when I don't push it too hard.

 

yep.

compare with mine....with slight oc/under v

next week i may go for the record...

Result

 

If i dont push it i go below 6k. Ive tried many times. 25x stock bios and low tdp tdc gives me 5742. During t-tstop bench tests the clocks are dead stable. At high rates. Its not like the other kids.
Perhaps ice storm etc can give me better comparison but donno what others get.
Odd that my gpu mem shows 3 gig.

 

any of you guys running battlefield 4? i just found out that my 920xm is bottlenecking my 7970m. any of you guys with crossfire 7970m running to this problem?

 

How did you noticed it is bottlenecking 7970m ?

I have BF4 running on ultra and everything is fine with Cross Fire ON

 

i wrote my findings on the battlefield 4 thread in the gaming section.

TL;DR i tried changing the graphics preset from low to ultra with small fps difference. octiceps told me that if that were the case then its pretty much the cpu bottlenecking my gpu. i tried running my cpu @3.5ghz and my gpu usage went up to 80%. still 40-50fps on ultra.

 

I have heard that running in windowed mode will cause the Cross Fire to work only off 1 card ?

 

Yup when running games in windowed mode and not full screen crossfire is not in play.

Cheers.

 

im only running one card. i read somewhere in the forums that someone had a 7970m crossfire and is running bf4 on a constant 60 fps. i want to find out how fast their cpu is going as well as gpu utilization.

 

That was me

I'll check that for you later when I finish my work...

For the bits that I remember. CPU 25@4 cores 85/80 TDP/TDC

Both GPUs at 0.975V 890/1250

Also. You want to install DirectX library's from the games directory.


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The fact that ive now got good VBIOS i shall test same speed as you Flingin.

If its lagging on me, its either the lower CPU speed or memory handling.

But if you Pinoy have 4 gigs of ram total, i think that a trip down memory lane and an upgrade of 4 gigs is quite obvious.

You use win7 flingin?

 

Yep. Win 7 all the way

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i dont think the extra ram space is gonna increase my fps drastically, but i plan on getting more ram as soon as i get a new ssd.

 

True that...

 

But its probably not CPU bottlenecking you.
Now i mostly get 55-60 fps, and my CPU is slower than yours. Mine is not as it should be.

Try doing the switch to Clevo VBIOS?

I have had to swap to Clevo to make xfire work perfect, going from the dell one. Might be other issues that you cant see or memory spikes that you dont see.
SSD should help a bit too.

 

Has anyone tested firestrike witht the R2? With or without extreme.

25X cpu and stock GPU and TDP/TDC to 100 / 90

Just want to see my CPU against other CPU's in another program than mark11.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1608170

This without extreme.

 

Will do that for you in 1 or 2 Hrs (Working Now)

 

Thx.
Just wanna see if I need to use the extra cash for a new CPU.
If you have chance can you check icestorm and cloudsgate too? Same settings.

EDIT:

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1608122 Icestorm

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1608144 Cloudgate

 

Done

AMD Radeon HD 7970M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-950 Processor,Alienware 014M8C

 

My CPU doesnt seem much slower for those tests, one test even faster.

Did you stop all your background programs?

 

Yes. And Hwinfo also off

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