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Asus HD 7970 Matrix Platinum Flicker problems? Faulty

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Hi I purchased a Asus HD 7970 Matrix Platinum last week. Once installed I noticed that the screen flickered a lot while using windows, using internet and watching movies. Also I was getting texture problems in games where certain textures would appear like a chess board.

I have tried a fresh install of windows and have updated all bios and drivers for my computer. I had GPU tweak installed but I have not overclocked the GPU at all, from previous advice I tied to remove this but still I got the same problems.

I have tried beta drivers and rolling back the drivers to previous versions, no joy from doing this either.

As soon as I put my old R6950 back in all works fine.

Unsure as to what to try next? Maybe accept defeat and send it back?

video of problem in windows.



Main System components
Gigabyte DH3 Z77 motherboard
Intel I5 3570k
8 gig corsair memory
Coolermaster Silent Pro 700W PSU
OCZ vertez 4 128GB SSD
Sound Blaster Fatality
 
Hi,

I just had to RMA mine back to Overclockers. Similar problem to yours, but only happened in games. It stopped if I under-clocked the card, but at stock speeds it would artefact all the time. It was actually the second one I've had, the first broke too :(. Hopefully I'll get a refund this time as I don't really want to try another!
 
Yes I have read your thread also. Sometimes the screen will just lock up blue and I have to reboot

Just had a quick go on battlefield 3 to test and got artifacts as well. When playing earlier some textures were like a flashing chess board.

Going to try in a friends machine tomorrow and if the results are the same it has to go back.

 
I've noticed a single flicker yesterday and another just now while on desktop. I might try overclocking it at the weekend to see if there's any change.
 
Guess I wasn't the only one that got a bad card, my one didn't want to OC at all since any kind of bump would result to artefacts, even after I putted it back to stock speeds, after a while it started to produce artefacts and tearing as well, had it RMA'd for a refund.
 
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