Can't say I've had any problems. Had my Sapphire 7850 since August, overclocked to 1050MHz core and runs perfectly for hours when gaming.
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Gigabyte Radeon HD7850 OC 2Gb - Black screen/Sound loop
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Can't say I've had any problems. Had my Sapphire 7850 since August, overclocked to 1050MHz core and runs perfectly for hours when gaming.
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Or maybe you were one of the unlucky ones?
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Google 'GTX problem' 
Hardware can have issues, no matter who makes it. Sometimes it's a batch thing as evidenced by the last MSI issue, sometimes it's just bad luck.
Getting all dramatic and going on about never buying AMD again is just silly to put it mildly.
Issues are often overblown on the net, as more often than not, it's complaints that are posted rather than positive experiences.
What do you think the ratio of happy to unhappy AMD owners is?
Hardware can have issues, no matter who makes it. Sometimes it's a batch thing as evidenced by the last MSI issue, sometimes it's just bad luck.
Getting all dramatic and going on about never buying AMD again is just silly to put it mildly.
Issues are often overblown on the net, as more often than not, it's complaints that are posted rather than positive experiences.
What do you think the ratio of happy to unhappy AMD owners is?
Why does your sig say 7950 RIP+ then ?
I dont think its silly and I am not generalising its personal preference and if I want to say I am never going to buy AMD again thats my prerogative.
I have had ATI 4870 (which worked ok) then a 460 (fed up with ATI drivers being so bad), 560 TI, 570, 580, AMD 7850, 560 TI 44. The one in bold yellow crashed on the day I bought it not had any issues with the other ones so if I wanna go all alien on AMD then I do have a right. Looking at all the issues reported with the 7850 if I had gone for a 7950 and could afford it I probably would not have posted here.
Searching on GTX problem brings up in general issues with 6xx cards more than any other which I never intended to purchase as I believe they are overpriced so you could say I was just unlucky with the AMD purchase. If you think thats silly I respect your opinion just dont agree with you over it.
I dont think its silly and I am not generalising its personal preference and if I want to say I am never going to buy AMD again thats my prerogative.
I have had ATI 4870 (which worked ok) then a 460 (fed up with ATI drivers being so bad), 560 TI, 570, 580, AMD 7850, 560 TI 44. The one in bold yellow crashed on the day I bought it not had any issues with the other ones so if I wanna go all alien on AMD then I do have a right. Looking at all the issues reported with the 7850 if I had gone for a 7950 and could afford it I probably would not have posted here.
Searching on GTX problem brings up in general issues with 6xx cards more than any other which I never intended to purchase as I believe they are overpriced so you could say I was just unlucky with the AMD purchase. If you think thats silly I respect your opinion just dont agree with you over it.
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Why does your sig say 7950 RIP+ then ?
Because the card died. If you want to assume it's because it's AMD, then that's down to you.
Using that as some kind of evidence to prove your point is circumstantial at best....
My next card will be another 7950 more likely than not because I can accept that **** happens
If you can't understand why saying 'I'm never buying AMD again' is silly, then I'll leave you to it.
Fantastic,
I had an x1800 which went faulty. I then bought a nvidia 6600 which wouldnt work. Found out the DFI motherboard didnt like any nvidia cards. So used a x300 which worked. Then I think I went to the 4870.
I just prefer nvidia as with ATI/AMD had card or driver problems. Its like with Gigabyte boards, they are my favourite but everytime I saw a review for say a MSI or ASUS board that was good so decided to stray away I either got boot loop of death with MSI or faulty ASUS board so went back to Gigabyte again.
Dramatic or not lesson learnt stick to what you know. In my case.
As for Uncle Petey I wasnt trying to prove my point against what you said, just being cheeky.
I was showing why I would never buy AMD again, or ASUS MB, or MSI MB.... The GTX 560 is MSI......
Its only like if you buy a Vauxhall Astra, have loads of problems with it, costs you time/money. Are you really going to buy another one or say "I'm never going to buy another Vauxhall" and go with Ford again as you never have problems/receive good customer service with them.
I had an x1800 which went faulty. I then bought a nvidia 6600 which wouldnt work. Found out the DFI motherboard didnt like any nvidia cards. So used a x300 which worked. Then I think I went to the 4870.
I just prefer nvidia as with ATI/AMD had card or driver problems. Its like with Gigabyte boards, they are my favourite but everytime I saw a review for say a MSI or ASUS board that was good so decided to stray away I either got boot loop of death with MSI or faulty ASUS board so went back to Gigabyte again.
Dramatic or not lesson learnt stick to what you know. In my case.
As for Uncle Petey I wasnt trying to prove my point against what you said, just being
cheeky.I was showing why I would never buy AMD again, or ASUS MB, or MSI MB.... The GTX 560 is MSI......
Its only like if you buy a Vauxhall Astra, have loads of problems with it, costs you time/money. Are you really going to buy another one or say "I'm never going to buy another Vauxhall" and go with Ford again as you never have problems/receive good customer service with them.
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All cool mate 
It's just that there are many more happy owners than unhappy ones.
I get that you and a few others may not have had the best of experiences, but it doesn't represent the majority.
It's kind of like a thread where a guy here was adamant that big aircoolers bend or break motherboards because of an experience he or a friend of his once had.
The sheer number of people using them without any such issues didn't factor into his argument at all.
Sure, in your case, you've found other users with similar issues, but again I'd say to look at all the happy owners and ask whether it's fair to write off 7850's full stop as you have done in several posts.
The same goes for Asus and MSI mobo's. Mine certainly hasn't been an issue and you can find reports of problems with virtually any product on the market if you look for them.
It's just that there are many more happy owners than unhappy ones.
I get that you and a few others may not have had the best of experiences, but it doesn't represent the majority.
It's kind of like a thread where a guy here was adamant that big aircoolers bend or break motherboards because of an experience he or a friend of his once had.
The sheer number of people using them without any such issues didn't factor into his argument at all.
Sure, in your case, you've found other users with similar issues, but again I'd say to look at all the happy owners and ask whether it's fair to write off 7850's full stop as you have done in several posts.
The same goes for Asus and MSI mobo's. Mine certainly hasn't been an issue and you can find reports of problems with virtually any product on the market if you look for them.
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I also had similar problems with my MSI 7850 OC twin frz 3 model and spent days trying to find a fix and in the end as wazza suggested here, setting the power slider to 20% seemed to fix it for me:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18476678&highlight=username_nexus18
Shame that didn't work for you.
There does seem to be an awful lot of threads where people appear to be having problems with the 7850
, must be a driver/software issue. It has sort of put me of AMD a bit and I was very close to just returning my 7850 and putting the extra towards a 660TI but am glad that I persisted as I love the card, everything about it is great for me so far, for my next upgrade I will do a lot more research though 
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18476678&highlight=username_nexus18
Shame that didn't work for you.
There does seem to be an awful lot of threads where people appear to be having problems with the 7850
, must be a driver/software issue. It has sort of put me of AMD a bit and I was very close to just returning my 7850 and putting the extra towards a 660TI but am glad that I persisted as I love the card, everything about it is great for me so far, for my next upgrade I will do a lot more research though I also had similar problems with my MSI 7850 OC twin frz 3 model and spent days trying to find a fix and in the end as wazza suggested here, setting the power slider to 20% seemed to fix it for me:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18476678&highlight=username_nexus18
Shame that didn't work for you.
There does seem to be an awful lot of threads where people appear to be having problems with the 7850
Yeah the slider thing didnt work for me
would you take a screenshot of your CCC overdrive settings for me so i can make sure my clock speeds etc are the same?? Tis worth a try
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Well I bought this card just under 2 weeks ago and have had nothing but trouble.
Nothing will play for more than 10mins, I even tried the simcity beta last weekend, hardly a demanding game and that crashed. I tried running Heaven direct x benchmark, that crashed, tried far cry 3 on the lowest settings, yep that crashed!
So tonight I put my old Radeon HD 4870 into my tower and everything ran amazingly well. I don't understand the problem with this card and after googling it there seems to be a great deal of people out there with problems.
I have contacted overclockers to see about this going back and me ideally swapping plus a little cash if needed it for a nvidea equivalent or a slightly better ATI.
Nothing will play for more than 10mins, I even tried the simcity beta last weekend, hardly a demanding game and that crashed. I tried running Heaven direct x benchmark, that crashed, tried far cry 3 on the lowest settings, yep that crashed!
So tonight I put my old Radeon HD 4870 into my tower and everything ran amazingly well. I don't understand the problem with this card and after googling it there seems to be a great deal of people out there with problems.
I have contacted overclockers to see about this going back and me ideally swapping plus a little cash if needed it for a nvidea equivalent or a slightly better ATI.
Here you go
I have no idea about the voltage as MSI afterburner etc. don't show it for some stupid reason
Shouldn't your voltage still be stock?
The way i understood it is that +20% slider in CCC doesn't actually alter the voltage but unlocks it so that it can be altered with a 2nd program such as afterburner.
I could be wrong though.
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Gotta admit, it doesn't look good...
Here you go
Cheers mate, altered slightly to match these settings, see if that does anything
Have tried just turning overdrive off completely as well see if that works first, going to go through EVERYTHING again as i dont think they are overly happy RMAing another card
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no the slider allows the card to work at a higher tdp than the standard limits before it throttles the frequency down.
It doesnt affect voltage/current draw until the max tdp limit is hit, it should be put to 20%.
Also you shouldnt have overdrive enabled and then also use 3rd party overclocking software, it will cause conflict. Just use trixx or afterburner with ccc disabled. (Although theres a workaround needed for overclocking 2 cards in cf tomb will provide help there.)
Depending on the driver used can affect stabiiity.
cat 12.11 beta 11 used to reduce the stability of my housemates sapphire 7850by 100mhz but the driver worked the card harder.
There does seem to be a problem with the gigabyte 7850 oc, they either dont have enough voltage for their overclock and so need a little bump of v-core, or theres some fault with their power regs, although other manufacturers have suffered this fault it does seem Gigabyte have more issues.
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Have tried upping the power to +20%
I have tried running games and Heaven Direct X benchmark with minimal settings on and anti-aliasing etc turned off yet it still seems to struggle.
I know it isn't my rig and I did try a different card with no issues.
As I am within 14 days of buying this card how does the RMA work? I have asked to be refunded so I can buy a new card but is this only if the card is found to have a fault or have I got that right automatically as it is within 14 days?
I have tried running games and Heaven Direct X benchmark with minimal settings on and anti-aliasing etc turned off yet it still seems to struggle.
I know it isn't my rig and I did try a different card with no issues.
As I am within 14 days of buying this card how does the RMA work? I have asked to be refunded so I can buy a new card but is this only if the card is found to have a fault or have I got that right automatically as it is within 14 days?