Radeon Evergreen Islands Club (HD 5xxx/6xxx/7xxx/8xxx)

[Peter1986C]

I felt the urge to start the Radeon Archipelago Club with my HD 6670 DDR3, being the first Northern Islands card in the club. Still looking for the first person with a (few) Southern Islands card(s) in possesion to join. And we have found M1dg3t as the first HD 7xxx owning member.

All HD 5xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx series cards are welcome, as well as Sea Islands cards (including review samples of those 8xxx's ). Multimedia cards (e.g. HD 6450) included, as long as they are dedicated because APUs belong to a CPU club IMHO.

Pictures and benchmarks of my HD 6670 will come soon, albeit nothing that impressive can be expected of the benchies (being at 1280x1024 helps though ).

Note: Posting 3DMark Vantage benchies is of course appreciated, but because we haven't yet standardised and "scientificised" () the benchmarks this is not having much of a point. I shall post info about this later (we especially have to see to deal with the difference in resolutions and the fact that the basic version of 3DMark (except edition 11) don't allow for resolution changes makes it tricky for me to do this in 5 mins so I will come back to you later). See below the list of members to see details about the benchmarking.

List of Members*

HD 5xxx owners, in order of entry | WCG GPU cruncher? | Card(s) | Special names, comments etc.
gdallsk | | HD 5770
gdallsk | | HD 5870
repman24 | | HD 5870
m1dg3t | | 5870 | V2 @ 900/1275 (Asus)
Rahmat Sofyan | | 2x HD 5870 | (Asus & Sapphire)
MT Alex | | 2x 5870 | in CrossFireX, watercooled
Guitarrassdeamor | | HD 5850
Sasqui | | HD 5870 | XXX (XFX)
Novulux | | HD 5770 | (Asus)
theoneandonlymrk | | HD 5870 | @ HD 5850 clocks, watercooled and in CFX
JP | | HD 5770 | (Sapphire, SKU# 11163-02), OC @ 900/1250 (Redid TIM)
Radical_Edward | | HD 5850 | (Asus)
qu4k3r | | HD HD5670 | IceQ 1GB GDDR5 (HIS)
qu4k3r | | 2x HD5830 | Xtreme 1GB GDDR5 (Sapphire) (CFX?)
agent00skid | Y | HD 5650 | Mobility
dude12564 | | HD 5450
TacoTown | | HD 5770
Gamerguy | | HD5770 | VX (Sapphire)
FreedomEclipse | | 2x HD 5850 | (Sapphire)
FreedomEclipse | | HD 5850 | (Asus DirectCU II)
Grnfinger | | HD 5970X2
Grnfinger | | HD 5770
Octopuss | | HD 5850 |
Fatal | | 2x HD 5770 | (XFX) |
mudkip | | HD 5870 | Vapor-X (Sapphire)
Athlonite | | 2x HD 5770 | (HIS) in CFX

HD 6xxx owners, in order of entry | WCG GPU cruncher? | Card(s) | Special names, comments etc.
Chevalr1c | Y | HD 6670 | GDDR3 (Sapphire)
AlienIsGod | | HD 6870 | sold to someone
Aquinus | | 2x HD 6870 | in CrosFireX
TRWOV | | HD 6950
PopcornMachine | | HD 6950
Capitan Harlock | | HD 6950
Darkleoco | | 2x HD 6950 | in CrossFireX
Brandonwh64 | | 2x HD 6950 | in CrosFireX, both unlocked.
patrico | | HD 6950
javaking | | HD 6870
ThE_MaD_ShOt | Y | 2x HD 6850 | in CrosFireX (XFX Double D & Visiontek)
Sasqui | | HD 6850 | (MSI)
Novulux | | HD 6450
Novulux | | HD 6670 | GDDR3
Novulux | | 2x HD 6770 | in CFX
Durvell27 | | HD 6950 | 2GB
jmcslob | | HD 6950 | unlocked
AthlonXP | | HD 6970
H82LUZ73 | | HD 6970 | in CFX
qu4k3r | | HD6790 | 1GB GDDR5 x2 (Powercolor, CFX)
Random_Murderer | | 2x HD 6850 | reference HIS model & 1 Visiontek with a revised power section, both with a customised BIOS
Bow | | 2x HD 6950 | in CFX (Sapphire)
Super XP | | HD 6970 | (Sapphire)
Corduroy_Jr | | HD 6850 | Direct CU II (Asus)
TacoTown | | HD 6870
GreiverBlade | | HD 6950 | CoolStream Edition (Club3D)
GreiverBlade | | HD 6850 | Black Edition (XFX)
GamerGuy | | HD 6990 | (Sapphire)
GamerGuy | | HD 6970 | Lightning (MSI, in CFX with the HD 6990)
FreedomEclipse | | 2x HD 6970
Itsakjt | | HD 6770 || 1 GB DDR5 (Sapphire, overclocked to 960 MHz core, 1295 MHz memory)
Grnfinger | | 2x HD 6870
SirKeldon | | HD 6850 | (Asus EAH) overclocked at 790/1100 (watercooled)
TotalChaos | | 2x HD 6950 | in CFX (Sapphire)
Norton | Y | HD 6870 | Hawk (MSI)
Fatal | | 2x HD 6950 | (XFX)
N0tiert | | HD 6990 | (Sapphire)
shovenose | |HD 6570 | 2GB (Sapphire) with passive cooler from a random old HD5450

HD 7xxx owners, in order of entry | WCG GPU cruncher? | Card(s) | Special names, comments etc.
M1dg3t | | HD 7950 | TwinFrozr III
mediasorcerer | | HD 7950
UbErN00b | | HD 7950 | OC (Sapphire)
BarabaricSoul | | HD 7970 | Core Edition (XFX)
crazyeyesreaper | | HD 7970 | DirectCu II TOP (Asus)
adulaamin | | HD 7970
Widjaja | | HD 7870 | Directcu II Ghz Edition (Asus)
Jack1n | | HD 7950
Guitarrassdeamor | | HD 7970 | (Gigabyte)
the54thvoid | | 2x HD 7970 | LCS (Powercolor) & OC (MSI), both watercooled and in CrossFireX.
Novulux | | HD 7870 | OC (Sapphire)
da_vid | | 2x HD 7770 | in CFX
3870x2 | | HD 7950
thE_MaD_ShOt | Y | 2x HD 7850 OC Edition | (Visiontek)
tHE_maD_ShOt | | 2 x HD 7770 | (Visiontek)
JNUKZ | | HD 7770
manofthem | Y | 2x HD 7970 | (Asus & Sapphire), watercooled and in CFX
Radical_Edward | | HD 7970 | (MSI)
exodusprime1337 | | HD 7970's | @ 1200/1675, in CFX
Jetster | | HD 7950 | | (HIS)
Random_Murderer | | 3x 7970 | reference models (1 Asus and 2 Visiontek), both flashed with XFX Black Edition firmware
erocker | | HD 7970
The Von Matrices | | HD 7970
Joellim | | HD 7970 | | flashed to Ghz edition
camoxiong | | HD 7770 | | GHz Edition
Rcoon | | HD 7950 | DD (XFX) in CFX
Kaynar | | HD 7970 | BE DD (XFX, old bios with unlocked voltage)
James888 | Y | HD 7970 | Watercooled, OC to 1250/1600 (Sapphire)
SonDa5 | | HD7950 | 950mhz edition (Sapphire), watercooled
[Ion] | Y | 3 x HD7770 | GHz Edition (MSI, not in CFX)
[Ion] | Y | HD 7950 | 3 GB (Sapphire)
[Ion] | Y | HD 7930 | 2 GB (Powercolor)
[Ion] | Y | HD 7850 | 2 GB TwinFrozr (MSI)
TB13 | | HD 7970 | (XFX)
AlienIsGod | Y | HD 7870 | 2GB OC (Sapphire)
AlienIsGod | Y | HD 7770 |
Gamerguy | | 3x HD7970 | 1 Powercolor with non-reference cooler & 2 reference models (Saphire & Club 3D), in CFX
Norton | Y | 3x HD 7770 |
Norton | Y | 2x HD 7870 |
Grnfinger | | 2x HD 7870
Okidna | | HIS HD 7850 | iCooler
...Pacman... | | HD 7850 | OC 2GB (Sapphire)
HammerOn | Y | 3x HD 7970 | (VisionTek, crunching/gaming rig)
HammerOn | Y | 3x HD 7770 | (VisionTek)
TommyT | | HD 7950 OC | 950 core and 1300 ram (Sapphire)
Sasqui | | HD 7870| PCS+ (Powercolor)
D1nky | | HD 7770 | 2gb OC (CFX)
Techtard | | HD 7970 | Dual-X @ 1200/1500 (Sapphire)
ST.Viper | | HD 7870 | Ghz Edition (Sapphire)
Greiverblade | | HD 7950 | DD 2 GB(XFX)
GreiverBlade | | HD 7870 | Royal Queen 2gb (Club3D)
James888 | | 2x HD 7870 XT (Powercolor)
de.das.dude | | HD 7790 (Sapphire)
Athlonite | | 2x HD 7850 CrossFireX
shovenose | | 2x Radeon HD 7770 | 1GB (VisionTek) in CrossFireX
shovenose | | HD 7930 (HD 7870XT) | 2GB (PowerColor)

HD 8xxx owners, in order of entry | WCG GPU cruncher? | Card(s) | Special names, comments etc.

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The EIC Massmark

Okay, the "massmark" will not include any game benchmarks because I don't want to lock out people who don't own certain games and keeping stuff blank is useless. It includes Furnark (only 6 mins in bench mode, so your card will be safe), Heaven 3.0 and 3Dmark 11, using the settings as specified in the document in the first link below. I will throw the matter in SPSS or PSPP to analyse the data after we are done filling in the spreadsheet. I hope and assume you will be honest about this, so no screenshots are needed.

Documentation with guidelines and information on the test settings

You should know enough now, to be able to fill in your stuff in the spreadsheet (link below).

Spreadsheet to fill in your data - Fixed the issue with the forgotten column!

Closing time will be december 1st, assuming that those who did not participate yet at that moment did not want to.


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* All cards seeming to be of reference design won't get the brands specified, because it wouldn't make sense to do so. If your card is non-reference, please specify the brand. Else giving the model nummer (HD xxxx) is sufficient.
Exceptions to this are multicard setup in order to have better clarity.
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[AlienIsGOD]

me and my trusty Sapphire 6870 are in

 

[m1dg3t]

7950 owner here

 

[Peter1986C]

Welcome AlienIsGod and your 6850.

And we got our first SI entry in this topic. Good. Welcome to you too M1dg3t.

 

[Nordic]

Currently using my older, but not old, 6950. Want to get my 7970 going again though.

 

[Aquinus]

You know, I got two lovely 6870s that do great. One of them is a reference card that I ordered the day they were released. I was upgrading from a Radeon HD 4850.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

Pic of my model, not an actual pic as my case is untidy and has been deemed so by the "Your PC atm" thread

 

[TRWOV]

Can my 6950 ghetto edition join?

 

[AlienIsGOD]

I was upgrading from a Radeon HD 4850.

I came from crossfired Sapphire 4850s (512MB) to the 6870

 

[Nordic]

Can my 6950 ghetto edition join?

http://imageshack.us/a/img515/166/img0188fb.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img696/733/img0194bk.jpg

I got a second 6950 like that one. I don't use it because it is a problem child gpu. One day it works, the other it decides not to.

 

[Peter1986C]

Can my 6950 ghetto edition join?

http://imageshack.us/a/img515/166/img0188fb.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img696/733/img0194bk.jpg

Nice cooler. Did you simply change the stock fans or did you do more to it?

 

[m1dg3t]

I am tempted to do the same mod to my 7950 TRWOV!! Still waiting for the retrofit kit for my WB and I'm kinda wanting to slap it all together on air for a lil test it all out

 

[PopcornMachine]

Me and my 6950 are on the islands man.

 

[TRWOV]

Nice cooler. Did you simply change the stock fans or did you do more to it?

It's a Sapphire HD6950 2GB with broken fans that I got used for $120 (+$32 shipping from the US ) I removed the fan assembly and wedged two standard 80mm fans on it:

I thought I'd have to use zip ties to hold the fans but pressure was enough.

 

[Peter1986C]

Indeed pressure seems to be enough, judging from the pictures.

 

[mediasorcerer]

Can i join this or what? With my 7950 etc???

 

[eidairaman1]

Can i join this or what? With my 7950 etc???

read the title dude

it states HD 6K, 7K, 8K

so youre eligible to join

 

[mediasorcerer]

I had one of those sapphire 6950,s in my last rigg, quite an ok card . Dont like the look of the plastic shroud much but, so long as it works.

 

[Capitan Harlock]

im in too with my xfx hd6950 1gb XD

 

[Peter1986C]

As promised, here are pics and overclock results. I used Akasa thermally conductive adhesive tape to ad heatsinks to the back of the VRAM chips at the back of the card.

The cooler does not look surprisingly beautiful, but does its work well (very quiet and cool, around 30C GPU temp even when slightly overclocked)

GPU-Z validation of the OC: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ghkf/


I managed to OC until 860/782 from 800/667, not bad. Metro 2033 went from 28.67 fps average (min 5.37, max 63.52) to 32 fps average (minimum 5.66, maximum 78.55). Mind you, in the middle section of each loop there is a massive frame drop that represents the usual game performance badly.
Here are the links to .zip archives with the HTML reports:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0au7c6310mwwdm9 (stock, i.e. 800/667)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ajibv4q5sbktxi9 (860/782)


Heaven 3.0 showed some improvements as well, although the settings I have used were a bit weird (medium shader quality, high tex quality, no AA, 4x bilineair AF but with Ambient Oclusion etc.).

BTW, it plays all my games just fine at stock settings, so probably I will keep it at stock to guarantee its durability.

 

[eidairaman1]

As promised, here are pics and overclock results. I used Akasa thermally conductive adhesive tape to ad heatsinks to the back of the VRAM chips at the back of the card.


http://img.techpowerup.org/121008/Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 VRAM HS mod.jpg


The cooler does not look surprisingly beautiful, but does its work well (very quiet and cool, around 30C GPU temp even when slightly overclocked)


http://us.sapphiretech.com/mc/image...50506103709638_634462423434419753_600_600.jpg


GPU-Z validation of the OC: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ghkf/


I managed to OC until 860/782 from 800/667, not bad. Metro 2033 went from 28.67 fps average (min 5.37, max 63.52) to 32 fps average (minimum 5.66, maximum 78.55). Mind you, in the middle section of each loop there is a massive frame drop that represents the usual game performance badly.
Here are the links to .zip archives with the HTML reports:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0au7c6310mwwdm9 (stock, i.e. 800/667)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ajibv4q5sbktxi9 (860/782)


Heaven 3.0 showed some improvements as well, although the settings I have used were a bit weird (medium shader quality, high tex quality, no AA, 4x bilineair AF but with Ambient Oclusion etc.).
http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums...3-0results_stockversus800-782_zps04755ec9.jpg

BTW, it plays all my games just fine at stock settings, so probably I will keep it at stock to guarantee its durability.

So Akasa Has thermal adhesive tape? I thought they only had a TIM which were applied to heatsinks. I used AS Epoxy mixed with AS5 compound for heatsinks on my laptop video cards ram.

 

[Peter1986C]

I dislike epoxy because it is permanent. That "tape" (although it comes in shape of a square) isn't so the HS can be removed if necessary, without damaging the components. http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?...s&type_sub=Thermal Interface&model=AK-TT12-80

 

[UbErN00b]

Count me in Sapphire HD 7950 OC

 

[R00kie]

do the 5000 series count in?

 

[Darkleoco]

Can my crossfire 6950's get in? I can run some benchmarks and such after Friday when I am home for fall break