01-05-2014, 10:06 AM
the patch has nothing to do with it.
overvolting and overclocking do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. overvolting is only necessary in the case of aggressive overclocking. a 130 Mhz overclock is not aggressive. a 7970 can be overclocked by 275 Mhz or more before overvolting is required to sustain higher clocks.
the reason you did not get an asic hang is because wpa is not entirely alu-bound, so you were not stressing the card in a way that pushed the voltage limits. this is why you need to test with a purely alu-bound algorithm like md4 or md5.
overvolting and overclocking do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. overvolting is only necessary in the case of aggressive overclocking. a 130 Mhz overclock is not aggressive. a 7970 can be overclocked by 275 Mhz or more before overvolting is required to sustain higher clocks.
the reason you did not get an asic hang is because wpa is not entirely alu-bound, so you were not stressing the card in a way that pushed the voltage limits. this is why you need to test with a purely alu-bound algorithm like md4 or md5.