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7900GTO, Another P.R. Fiasco?

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The good news is that all your suspicions were correct, the 7900GTO is indeed a re-badged 7900GTX which means you're getting amazing bang for your buck on these cards with the rates they're selling at! :)

The bad news is that it's not just a re-badged 7900GTX, it's a re-badged 7900GTX from the older batches with faulty memory and/or voltage regulators and has had the memory down-clocked to cope! :rolleyes:

Reports are coming in that these cards are failing rapidly, especially when the memory is overclocked, and that some people have even noticed that their cards can only be refurbished and not new.

Here are links to the thread on the official EVGA message board and the original thread at XS.
 
bite me :D all those infos above are speculation, there is no official sources to confirm it other than some posts at XS and where you do get the "Reports are coming in that these cards are failing rapidly, especially when the memory is overclocked, and that some people have even noticed that their cards can only be refurbished and not new." from? so far I have only seen 1 card messed up ?

Ive been using my MSI 7900GTO for like a week, running daily at 700/800 and got no problesm whatsoever
 
ken1307 said:
bite me :D
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No need for that, some of you are so sensitive and some of you just plain need to grow up.

ken1307 said:
all those infos above are speculation, there is no official sources to confirm it other than some posts at XS and where you do get the "Reports are coming in that these cards are failing rapidly, especially when the memory is overclocked, and that some people have even noticed that their cards can only be refurbished and not new." from? so far I have only seen 1 card messed up ?
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EVGA forums, XS forums, AT forums, etc. I don't know what your problem is.

I'm glad your card works fine, but this is becoming a problem and I am simply spreading news that would have been spread by someone else sooner or later. People need to be aware.
 
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Ulfhedjinn said:
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EVGA forums, XS forums, AT forums, etc. etc. etc.
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it seems to me that they all start from HeavyH20's post over XS ;) with no backup other than 1 dead card + some GTX boxes are re-used to ship the GTO cards
 
Hi there

We've sold nearly 400 of these 7900 GTO's now. Yet I don't think we've actually had any back yet, if we have we must be talking just 1-2 units for me not to see them.

Plus there are many many end-users on these forums who have overclocked these cards by miles and are running fine.

This thread comes across more to me as somebody trying to course a rumour. We were the first in the UK to get these cards and as such have sold large quantities of them and have only heard good things about them. :)

When we maybe start to see above normal failure rates then we can look into but as it stands at the moment the failure rate on these cards is very low, in fact its lower than whats normally expected. :)
 
ken1307 said:
it seems to me that they all start from HeavyH20's post over XS ;) with no backup other than 1 dead card + some GTX boxes are re-used to ship the GTO cards
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Did you read the thread? Afireinside is having problems with heat, Supertim0r's was D.O.A., Bail_w's failed with no display, and a bunch of them have GTX boxes with stickers over the "GTX" part.

More reports of failures are coming in from other forums and the reboxing thing has already been proven with pics. :rolleyes:

Gibbo said:
When we maybe start to see above normal failure rates then we can look into but as it stands at the moment the failure rate on these cards is very low, in fact its lower than whats normally expected. :)
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That's good news, but I recall the 7900GT starting off this way.
 
i have been wondering, it can;t be that the 7900 series of card can have such a high failure rate, it can only mean sabotage since i can;t think of why a company would let so many dodgey cards slip from quality control.
something fishy is going on here, and i would love to find out what.
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
Did you read the thread? Afireinside is having problems with heat, Supertim0r's was D.O.A., Bail_w's failed with no display, and a bunch of them have GTX boxes with stickers over the "GTX" part.

More reports of failures are coming in from other forums and the reboxing thing has already been proven with pics. :rolleyes:
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yes I did and in fact, Ive just read it again :) now to on your point:

Supertim0r's was D.O.A. : umm..its DOA so it means its a re-baged faulty GTX?

Afireinside is having problems with heat: I dont have the new GTX with Hynix memory but dont they get hot too?

Bail_w's failed with no display : this is the one I refered as "1 dead card" before

I dont know why you going on about the GTX boxes as I did say they re-use those boxes for the GTO in my previous post? whats wrong with re-using the spare boxes they have in stock?

also, all the new cards come with warranty so if they fail, you just need to RMA it :)
 
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ken1307 said:
yes I did and in fact, Ive just read it again :) now to on your point:

Supertim0r's was D.O.A. : umm..its DOA so it means its a re-baged GTX?

Afireinside is having problems with heat: I dont have the new GTX with Hynix memory but dont they get hot too?

Bail_w's failed with no display : this is the one I refered as "1 dead card" before

I dont know why you going on about the GTX boxes I did say they re-use those boxes for the GTO in my previous post?
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I don't know why you're getting so defensive about this, it must be brand loyalty. Read the threads I linked to and read some other forums, then tell me something isn't odd (and keep a straight face.)
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
I don't know why you're getting so defensive about this, it must be brand loyalty. Read the threads I linked to and read some other forums, then tell me something isn't odd (and keep a straight face.)
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lol, im not defensive here. All im trying to say is theres no proof (as yet) about this and I dont think its a good idea to spread the rumour without any backups ;)

I have both nVidia and ATi, Intel and AMD so
what kind of "brand loyalty" you are talking about?

Obviously the GTO is GTX rebaged but why they are rebaged is questionable ;) wherther its a faulty GTX or the company just wanna clear their old stock before G80 is released :)
 
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I have got one and I am happy with it and it is cheaper and faster than a 7950GT

The memory overclocks to only 1600 but the timmings looks tighter than samsung specifications:

trc: 31 (35) trcdrd: 10 (12)
Trfc: 39 (45) trcdwr: 6 (8)
tras:22 (25) trrd: 10 (8)
trp: 9 (10)

Time will tell if they will break after overclocking the memory but my one runs below 55C gaming for hours and its hard to believe Nvidia and his partners are going to jeopardize its reputation marketing faulty GTXs just to make some quick money ;)

BTW I am sure they tested the cards at 1600mhz because we all know the user is going to overclock the card and they do not want more returns after the overclocked 7900GTs fiasco

funny: while I was writting this 5 more post :p Hot Thread
 
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all i can say is, if i was given the choice of the 7900gto or a x1900xt and was given a guarantee that none of the cards would ever fail, i would go for the 7900gto.

7900gto has lower power consumption, less heat, less driver issues, less noise, and more memory, but even if it was just 256mb version of the gto i would still go for it.

but the main thing that is missing is the guarantee of the card not failing. 7900series is just ranked up there with ballistix 2gig ddr kits and qtec power supplies. just don;t bother with them.

remember, my x1900xt purchase was not out of choice, but out of necessity. i need a reliable gfx card and nvidia basically told me to F off. found it pointless to go back to the 7600gt so went the ati route.
 
Raikiri said:
Erm... Xbox 360?

Loads of them failed and MS are a bigger company than Nvidia.
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bigger company it is, but with less experience making hardware and anyway they/us are used to see them fixing problems after releasing products :p

BTW microsoft is a monopoly (is it?), they can afford failures ;)
 
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Well, no problems here at home... no problems reported on the OcUK message boards (always a good sign) ... overclocked mine to GTX speeds.

Fingers crossed. I hope your wrong :) If not, well, you win some you loose some. RMA time, no biggy.
 
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