7970 causing me issues

[dave_beast]

Why would I want to troll anyone?, that happens to be my feelings and opinion on the situation, which I am entitled to, you are also entitled to an opinion of your own, and if it happens to differ from mine or anyone elses, does that automatically make me or someone else a "troll" ?, I think you have some maturity and/or common sense issues.

I refer you to my earlier post

OP post a pic of your card with your username on a piece of paper and post in this thread...

 

[Kynd]

I refer you to my earlier post

Will do around thrusday, untill then I am busy tomorrow and wednesday, but on thuresday I am going to DSR the card, and when I take it out of the system then will be the perfect time to take a pic.

 

[KHAN]

I had a bad first day with the drivers too, the 11.12's were the only ones that worked, the 12's just would not work with a 7970 and win 7.

 

[MAK360]

Will do around thrusday, untill then I am busy tomorrow and wednesday, but on thuresday I am going to DSR the card, and when I take it out of the system then will be the perfect time to take a pic.

just from your attitude towards amd (drivers in this case) says you are a troll as others have said. you don`t want to say exactly what the problems are or what your system spec is.. your not asking for help but bashing. you making excuses of being busy in front of your system and cant take a photo of your SYSTEM with the card inside says it all for me. as Dave_beast said post name with pic of card or shut ur pie..

i had my £1300 laptop (acer with nvidia = GPU fried & the motherboard with it) just clonked out on me last week and i hardly used it.. you don`t see me bashing nvidia... eh eh eh

 

[kitch9]

wow... thats made my choice of avoiding ATI in future even more sure!

Why, because somebodies overclocked system failed to boot, which corrupted its OS somehow?

You can't be for real, this almost looks like counter marketing to me man, how's about you post pictures of the "glitches" you are seeing, and pictures of your rig so we can be confident this is not FUD and use it to properly make a purchasing decision.

Anything else and GTFO.

I had a bad first day with the drivers too, the 11.12's were the only ones that worked, the 12's just would not work with a 7970 and win 7.

Why didn't you just use the drivers for your card?

 

[Kynd]

just from your attitude towards amd (drivers in this case) says you are a troll as others have said. you don`t want to say exactly what the problems are or what your system spec is.. your not asking for help but bashing. you making excuses of being busy in front of your system and cant take a photo of your SYSTEM with the card inside says it all for me. as Dave_beast said post name with pic of card or shut ur pie..

i had my £1300 laptop (acer with nvidia = GPU fried & the motherboard with it) just clonked out on me last week and i hardly used it.. you don`t see me bashing nvidia... eh eh eh

First, let me give you 3 little pieces of advice, #1 get some manners. #2 learn to spell and use proper punctuation (or you might look like that 13 year old uneducated kid that has come here and quickly made an account to come here and start flaming people, 4 total posts made...), and lastly #3 dont quote people, you obviously fail to understand what quote means, because dave_ beast was not rude in his post, and did not tell me to "shut my pie hole", that seems to be something you added on your own initiative. lastly, I have a thead showing the goods I purchased on the day they arrived in a very big box, and how excited I was, I shall link that thread here to prove to the kids like you, that I am not just a basher, but a person, a customer, who after spending almost a grand, has a right to an opinion, did you (MAK360) earn that £1300 for that laptop? or did mommy and daddy pay for it, I think I know the answer to that one .

 

[tommybhoy]

The same position as yourself but the other way round, it doesn't just happen with AMD:

My concern is that the system has been consistently less stable than my old Radeon graphics based one. Reasonably frequent driver re-starts, strange corruption on the screen and apps like Lightroom locking up for no apparent reason. Even MSN will sometimes go visually screwy.

I really don't think the card itself is duff in any way - I just have a nasty feeling that the Nvidia drivers are not as stable and reliable as AMD's. This is an issue I remember from years ago and am starting to have a sense of deja-vu.

Can I really expect it to be this flaky in comparison? Are RADEON cards and their drivers inherently more stable?

Yes, I have run extensive tests on the core system - memory and CPU fine. Not over clocked (yet) and everything runs very cool.

 

[Kynd]

I refer you to my earlier post

Here is the thread I made a few days ago when my big box arrived with my new monitor and the XFX 7970. I also had another thread which I CBA to find in the monitor section about returning that also, as it had a dead pixel, yes, a single dead pixel near the middle of the screen on a £500 pound purchase = no freaking way, straight back it goes, along with this buggy, possibly faulty 7970.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18368535

 

[dave_beast]

Here is the thread I made a few days ago when my big box arrived with my new monitor and the XFX 7970. I also had another thread which I CBA to find in the monitor section about returning that also, as it had a dead pixel, yes, a single dead pixel near the middle of the screen on a £500 pound purchase = no freaking way, straight back it goes, along with this buggy, possibly faulty 7970.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18368535

Fair enough, good luck with getting it all sorted

 

[Narj]

I must admit that I'm not really bothered by manufacturer, but I've had far less messing about to do with drivers since switching to Nvidia. My last 2 cards were ATI and while they were good, I did tend to have to mess around with driver versions quite a lot to avoid in-game glitches and other desktop issues.

 

[Wucked]

Obvious troll is obvious

Obvious stupidity is obvious. OMG his card doesn't behave exactly the same as mine does, therefore, um, he must be trolling!!1

Don't take a picture for him OP, at best he's trying to reverse troll you. And why should you care whether a couple of forum noobs believe you have a faulty card, or not?

The minimum I would do is to do a fresh windows install if you have gone from Nvidia to AMD.

And lol wut?

So if re-installing windows is your recommended minimum, what's your fully recommended course of action? A new mouse and keyboard maybe? How about a gender change operation while your at it?

Switching graphics cards does not include a minimum requirement of re-installing windows. Perhaps switching from an old nforce motherboard to an AM3+, then yes, but even then its still not compulsory.

 

[LtMatt]

Don't feed him.

 

[hominid]

And lol wut?

So if re-installing windows is your recommended minimum, what's your fully recommended course of action? A new mouse and keyboard maybe? How about a gender change operation while your at it?

While I don't normally reply to obvious trolls, here goes.

I recommend a complete reinstall, I missed the OP had already tried that though, not mainly because of the graphics drivers but because of all the other stuff that gets installed with Nvidia drivers - like PhysX and Cuda. Both of these things in an AMD graphics card machine can make things inherently unstable as apps/games that was installed with the Nvidia card look for these and all of a sudden they can not be initialised.

And for you I recommend the aforementioned sex change!

 

[ALXAndy]

Why would I want to troll anyone?, that happens to be my feelings and opinion on the situation, which I am entitled to, you are also entitled to an opinion of your own, and if it happens to differ from mine or anyone elses, does that automatically make me or someone else a "troll" ?, I think you have some maturity and/or common sense issues.

You must have missed the Zotac 560ti going up in a poof of smoke yesterday.

That was a doozy.

 

[Wucked]

While I don't normally reply to obvious trolls, here goes.

I recommend a complete reinstall, I missed the OP had already tried that though, not mainly because of the graphics drivers but because of all the other stuff that gets installed with Nvidia drivers - like PhysX and Cuda. Both of these things in an AMD graphics card machine can make things inherently unstable as apps/games that was installed with the Nvidia card look for these and all of a sudden they can not be initialised.

And for you I recommend the aforementioned sex change!

Honestly this is not a troll, at least its not an intentional troll. Although yes, looking at it now it certainly does read like one. Apologies for that at least.

Anyway, I disagree. You might well need to clean your registry and / or reconfigure a few applications. But installing and configuring windows and all your various applications from scratch? For the average user its completely unnecessary. There are a number of issues that are pretty much ONLY recoverable from with a complete re-install, but changing graphics cards, unless its a really bad case, just isn't one of them.

But if you're one of those compulsive types, that absolutely has to install everything from scratch every time a problem occurs, then at least make it easy on yourself and keep a base image with which to start out from.

 

[Kynd]

Honestly this is not a troll, at least its not an intentional troll. Although yes, looking at it now it certainly does read like one. Apologies for that at least.

Anyway, I disagree. You might well need to clean your registry and / or reconfigure a few applications. But installing and configuring windows and all your various applications from scratch? For the average user its completely unnecessary. There are a number of issues that are pretty much ONLY recoverable from with a complete re-install, but changing graphics cards, unless its a really bad case, just isn't one of them.

But if you're one of those compulsive types, that absolutely has to install everything from scratch every time a problem occurs, then at least make it easy on yourself and keep a base image with which to start out from.

Well, for me, I have all my games and apps on my crucial raid 0 ssd, and backup info my a samsung 1tb, which makes life very easy when it comes to doing reinstalls.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Ya those are the ones I am using. Everthing with ATI just seems to problematic compared to Nvidia...

Woop! Woop! Woop!

My Nvidia fanboy troll alarm just went of big style.

He probably hasn't even got a 7970