Picked up an XFX HD-6970 (stock), and currently running it exclusively for Moo! (and warming up my living room this winter).

Anyone else here have an HD-6970 and if so, what kind of results are you getting for Moo! and other apps.

P.S. I want to get another 69xx series, but might opt for a 58xx series if the price is low enough and the results are good enough.

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I run 2 HD58xx cards, and the HD5850 gives me an RAC of 250K, with WUs taking an average 2200 seconds.

Looking at your WU times show they seem to complete in 1,700 seconds.

So, on a prorata basis your RAC should settle down aroung 350K in amonth of so.

I have a stock XFX HD-6970, it only runs about 12 hours per day.

Times are from about 1500 secs to 2300 secs per work unit.

Happy with the card but its very loud.

GPU @ 99% + Fan speed at 65% = Temperature @ about 88 degrees C.

Fan speed at 100% is stupidly loud, sounds like a jet engine.

I have a GTX 590 running Seti and DistrRTgen, can't even hear it.

I have an HIS Radeon HD 6970 IceQ Turbo 2 GB. I rotate it between Moo!, Collatz and Milkyway.

Prior to the xmas credit increase I believe I was getting about 300k/day.

I get about 200k/day at Collatz and Milkyway.

My card is loud as well, but I don't notice it much as I rarely go in that room.

Not sure how much power it uses, but the pc (i7 920) running all 8 threads of WCG and Moo! pulls 400Watts total as measured by my killawatt device.

Thinking of selling it and getting the new HD 7970 at some point.

Yes the GPU fan is CRAZY STUPID LOUD @ 100%! @60% = 4000 rpm Max 6000 rpm, per GPU-Z. Some HDDs fried in two rigs, so I got an RADEON HD6970. Upgraded a rig (AMD PIIx2 that had the HD4670) with new drive and W7 x64 bit and an HD5870 frm the I7 now with the 6970. The I7 has a larger case (corsair carbide series 400R. Old case was an antec 300) that dropped the temps 20 deg F. And now has all its RAM, had to borrow one a while back (the AMD above) another reason too upgrade.

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I had a Sapphire HD6950 OCd to 840 MHz that gave me +- 300k / day running 24/7 Using Sapphire's TRIXXS

* before the bad fragmented WUs that started early in Dec,

Running @ 840 I used build in utility to regulate the temp. to be below 70 deg
Fan speed @ between 55 to 65% with 98% GPU usage

Then V1.03 started


I upp'ed the GPU performance with the app-info running 2x WUs to get better run times & recover my RAC because I was getting only the "normal" 192 WUs

With the same fan settings the GPU temp jumped to 78deg +
Fan speed @ 80% +

R.I.P

The one cooling fan ( this card got 2 fans) said "bye for now" after only 4 months!

Supplier said I abused it and don't want to replace it :(

$$$$ down the drain

That's why I prefer XFX over Sapphire. XFX has a lifetime warranty and even adds another lifetime warranty for a potential additional owner. Sapphire is only 2 years and does not allow warranty transfers.

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Just wanted to update on my issues with my 6970 from some other threads--and thought I would post them here.

Everything is running ok. Not sure exactly why, however. But I changed BOINC to "Run As Administrator". I also uninstalled Catalyst and use MSI Afterburner. Might try to install catalyst again, but don't see a point at the moment.

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I've had my stock XFX 6970, must be at least a year or so now...runs OC'd and power setting to Max, also runs any game I throw at it. Noisy but my AC powered Orion fans are even noisier over the 6970. Heard about some problems with the 7900 cards so just might pick up another 6970 for X-fire. I could and have previously run Quad fire with two 4870 X2's but the 6970 shaves off about two minutes from Mily Way WU's, down to 58 seconds. They were around 3 minutes on the X2's. Haven't done a 24 hour round on a project yet to get the RAC, but sounds like a strategy.