7900 failures

[ted34]

What was the common symptons when 7900's failed?

 

[gurusan]

What was the common symptons when 7900's failed?

Basically artifacting out of the box with no ocing. I believe they fixed this problem though. I have a eVGA 7900GT KO superclocked ....got it to 701/920 stable but run 650/850 daily. Not too shabby if you ask me.

 

[Zefan]

eVGA use different ram I think hence the lack of typical 7900 failure. The others still have the bug I think.

 

[gurusan]

From what I've heard eVGA had the bug too. Their RMA program is great though. I never RMAd but I used the step-up program.

 

[ACESHIGH]

The problems still appear to be ongoing. for many users. Even with eVGA cards.

Your maybe suffering form NSDS (nVidia Sudden Death Syndrome) if you experience the following during and/or after the 3DMark06 tests.

1. Artifacts, tearing, fine colored dots, black spots with missing graphics.
2. Severe distortion during Deep Freeze test.
3. Complete system hangup during Deep Freeze.
4. Flickering desktop about 1 or 2 second intervals after the test is over. Desktop may have colors missing or black spots in windows, taskbar and start button. You may see this distortion earlier between 3D tests when 2D desktop is exposed.

These seem to be the most common symptoms of a bad card. At this point RMA is inevitable.

Other symptoms may be random rebooting, BSOD, lock-ups while playing games, getting dropped on the desktop, etc.

 

[harris1986]

*touch wood

i have a bfg 7900gt had it for many months now and is a excellent overclocker see my sig, had no problems with it and no artifacting, i do have a zalmann vf900 on it for refference

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yeah they changed the Ram to Infineon as they thought that was the prob, but nope wasn't, so now they are saying its the Voltage Regulators, they aint got a clue, i don't know why they just dont face it, they have released a borked card.

I would'nt get one as you don't know when they will go **** up, they could work fine for months on end then one day you'll switch on and its a goner, and if its after the 28 days then its back to the manufacturer, and you'll not get a replacment for weeks, months, and then when you do get a replacement that one will go titties up to at some point as they are all borked.

 

[Gibbo]

eVGA use different ram I think hence the lack of typical 7900 failure. The others still have the bug I think.

HI there

Gainward no longer have the issue thats for sure plus I don't think they ever did either.
Cannot comment on other brands.

 

[Gibbo]

*touch wood

i have a bfg 7900gt had it for many months now and is a excellent overclocker see my sig, had no problems with it and no artifacting, i do have a zalmann vf900 on it for refference

Hi there

Must comment as though I don't know for sure but we sell more BFG cards than any other brand and we get hardly none back, so again maybe they are not affected.

At the moment BFG and Gainward seem safe bets.

 

[ChrisJSY]

At the moment BFG and Gainward seem safe bets.

Well a month ago me and a friend both recieved faulty gainward ones.
Guessing it was from the same batch.
>_<.

But we got it sorted fine.