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

6950 Xfire!!!

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do the 5000 series count in?

Not for the "List of Members", but because it is a Radeon (and because you made the bold move to ask nicely ;)) I decided to put you in the "List of Honourably Mentioned".

Nope, HD5xxx are Evergreen so we don't need a clubhouse :D
I see what you did there... XD

By the way, I think that if we want to do benches together we should standardise them perhaps.
 
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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.

Great stuff buddy, this is what i really like to see, innovation and using what you have to get the most, im always thinking of ways to improve things,
been thinking of doing something similar with some heatsinks i pulled out of a broken xbox ,
i got a tube of thermal/grease compound thats for transistors and heatsinks on amps as its non permanent etc, see if it works anyways, good job, thanx for posting.
 
ya 5 and 6 series were of the same brood. 4 was a precursor to 5
 
I have a 6670 GDRR5
 

i had that sapphire card[6950], did the job good. i redid the thermal paste and resurfaced the copper heatsink face and polished it to a high gloss with emery just for the hell of it, brought the temps down by 3-5 c in the end,
although im really impressed by the 7 series i got now, my single card gets about that in heaven .i think anyways, if i remember, il run it again to see. ta for posting.
 
my sapphire 6950 2 gig is in :)
 
guess I'm qualified
 
Welcome new members. :)

ya 5 and 6 series were of the same brood. 4 was a precursor to 5

Yeah, that is true. I did not think of that initially, being distracted by the "Islands" thing. Perhaps we should rename the club thread title into "Radeon Evergreen Islands (HD 5xxx/6xxx/7xxx/8xxx)"? I could ask an admin to do that. :)
 
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Nice, I shall edit the OP accordingly.
 
ASUS Radeon HD 7970 DirectCu II TOP
 
Added. Welcome!

Edit: Adjusted the OP to the new situation, now the HD 5xxx series are 100% included!
 
Added. Welcome!

Edit: Adjusted the OP to the new situation, now the HD 5xxx series are 100% included!

Well now, since you did that, add my 5870 on the list pl0x :D Asus v2 @ 900/1275

Oh and my 7950 is a MSi TwinFrozr3 @ stock for now, if that info helps anyone?
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I'll post some benchmarks when my new mobo arrive
 
I'm in :), I have no benchmark just playing for games :)

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Asus HD 5870 & Sapphire HD 5870
 
May I join?

PowerColor 7970

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Added adulamin to the list.
@ eidaraman1: he is just being polite. ;)
 
man hard to believe how long ive been using AMD gpus. really need to pick up an NVIDIA card but the 8970 will launch first...

4870x2 upgraded to 2x 5850s upgraded to 2x 6970s side graded to 2x 6950s side graded to 7970 lol
 
What happened to all those GPUs? You went thruough them like their chocolates, lol.

No offense intended of course ;)
 
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