Radeon HD 5970 problem

gamer_Niall

I've noticed a really large drop in fps when I'm playing games, I have no idea what is happening. The only thing I can think of is that I took the card out to clean dust out of it with an air compressor but that wouldn't have caused damage?

I have deleted and reinstalled drivers, still hasn't changed.

In the AMD Catalyst Control Center in the AMD Overdrive tab the specs are as followed:

GPU Clock: 157MHz
Memory Clock: 300MHz
Temp: 50c

Is this normal?

Overheal

Thats the active clock? What about the clock setting (on the sliders)

my 5770 is 400Mhz Core and 1200Mhz memory running dualscreen and netflix and posting this. 44C. I don't think my second card is registering properly in catalyst everything is zeroed out except 20% fan speed.

gamer_Niall

Yes that's my active clock, I turned my computer on this morning and the clock showed the 725Mhz and the 1000Mhz but after 5mins they dropped back down to the 157 and 300

It's normal for video cards to slow down their core and RAM clocks when not under load to save power. But if it stays that way then something's not right.

gamer_Niall

Any suggestions on what to do?

Can this be moved to the Graphics thread?