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    P370EM Question about 7970m crossfire(cant overclock and low usage) yes ive read sticky ;)

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by tzimisce74, Oct 4, 2013.

  1. tzimisce74

    tzimisce74 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I cant seem to find the right driver.. or is it something else wrong?

    Im playing final fantasy xiv and getting very low GPU 2 usage.. like 40%. Ive tried the lates beta drivers shown in this forum and no luck...

    I cant seem to be able to overclock with any of the softwares... this is kind of weird...

    anyway if you can give me any help ill be gratefull


    thanks

    wes
     
    tzimisce74, Oct 4, 2013
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Define any software, show pictures of your CPU and GPU usage, what applications it's in.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 5, 2013
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    I am having the same issue, overclocked to 950/1400 and am getting some better performance, but the game is only using 40-50% of each GPU. I did disable ULPS as any game/video converter i was going into was maxing my secondary GPU for no reason and no performance boost. I am running the latest 13.10 beta driver with the 13.5 CAP1. One thing that seemed to help a bit was to change the crossfire profile to either fear or crysis and i was able to boost to around 60% usage, but still not maxing out.
     
    jcruiser89, Oct 6, 2013
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Again post images of what is going on in monitoring programs and also what the cpu is doing (usage and frequency graphs) otherwise you are asking us to diagnose blind.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 7, 2013
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    I've read of quite a few having issues with SLI and this game. Supposedly the game does not support DX11 and does not utilize multiple GPU configurations very well.
     
    Prostar Computer, Oct 7, 2013
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    in-game action.jpg in-game idle.jpg title Screen.jpg

    from right to left, title screen, in-game idle, in-game action, might post another later when i actually start playing.
     
    jcruiser89, Oct 7, 2013
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    Ok and what sort of FPS are you getting?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 8, 2013
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    tzimisce74 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I can't overclock at all, I installed drivers 13.10...

    Also something weird happened... when I deleeted my video drivers in the system setup to get the "standard VGA video card" I got blue screen after when installing fresh drivers
     
    tzimisce74, Oct 8, 2013
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    look in the top left corner.
     
    jcruiser89, Oct 9, 2013
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    I installed MSI after burner first and unlocked the card then installed the AMD Overdrive
     
    jcruiser89, Oct 9, 2013
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    In one screenshot you do have a single core highly loaded, but not so much in the others, the clocks and usage look normal so I would have to say software issue.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 9, 2013
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    tzimisce74 Notebook Enthusiast

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    If i get 11.2k in 3dmark 11 (underwater) this mean its not a hardware issue?
     
    tzimisce74, Oct 11, 2013
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    Probably, always best to link a compare to check.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 11, 2013
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