I had a junk cooler master PSU that got hot, and had a 5870 sitting in the bottom slot next to it... card was always 10-15c hotter.  Try putting a fan in the front of your case blowing air toward the intake of the 5970 (faces the front)... or if your PSU is getting hot, upgrade

I had a junk cooler master PSU that got hot, and had a 5870 sitting in the bottom slot next to it... card was always 10-15c hotter.  Try putting a fan in the front of your case blowing air toward the intake of the 5970 (faces the front)... or if your PSU is getting hot, upgrade

Is it sitting right next to your PSU?

Is that card at the bottom of your tower or case?

how many 5970s? two?

Which platform are you on?

I'm curious because I can't seem to drop the memory clocks from the default 1375, on Windows with unofficial overclocking enabled Afterburner anyway. Suggestions?

Very nice core clock btw, mine only does 1175 max while mining.

7970 gets about 550 at stock clocks.  6870 gets 260-280 and 5970 gets 640-680mh/s.

5000 series cards do extremely well with SDK 2.1, but since you have a 7970 in the mix you have to use SDK 2.6 which isnt so good.

I get 998mh/s from my setup (mild undervolt too)  430watts right now at the wall.

7970@975mhz
6550@650mhz
5870@885mhz

reboot your system first. sometimes 2.1 detection is wonky
then run something called gpu caps viewer, google it if you dont 100% know you have it
go to opencl tab. the very top dropbox should have 2 options if you have 2 sdks installed. 2.1 is called ATI stream. 2.6 will have a version number of something like 831.4. 2.5 will have like 793 or something, starts with a 7.

If you're asking about my script then it has a loop built in. No need to run every 5 minutes because the script runs non-stop and checks once per minute.