Question about Gigabyte 7950s

[N1CKH0LAS]

Hey,

Heard the Gigabyte 7950s are voltage locked. However, i'd prefer them because of the better cooling compared to other 7950s.
The question is: Will Gigabyte 7950s perfeorm well at LTC mining ? I know tweaking is an important part when trying to achieve a high efficiency and from what  I understand, there ain't much tweaking that can be done to a voltage locked GPU...

Would be great if you could share your experience, especially if you mined with a voltage locked 7950 Gigabyte. Thanks in advance

[1714753083]

1714753083

[crazyates]

From what I've heard, those 7950s use a reference 7970 board design, which will yield the best results for LTC mining. Voltage locked means you can't lower the power consumption any, which means they will run a little hotter or with higher fans. It doesn't have much to do with performance unless you're overclocking the balls of them, which LTC mining doesn't necessarily need.

[sokol815]

while that is true, you can flash a gigabyte HD 7950 back to the F43 bios which will bring the voltage down from 1.25 to 1.09... lots of people are reporting much cooler running after doing this.

[N1CKH0LAS]

Thanks for answers, guys

[Stoneysilence]

Not sure if this is the card your talking about since you didn't specify which one:
http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-Mini-Displayport-PCI-Express-Graphic-GV-R795WF3-3GD/dp/B007581QHG/ref=sr_1_1?m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1367623459&sr=1-1&keywords=7950

But Techspot overclocked it a bit...
http://www.techspot.com/review/496-amd-radeon-7950/page10.html