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7990 Replacement

would suck a little, but least i can get away from Gigabyte then use them again. so many issues with them over the years..
 
Shame, pretty much every 7990 I know of (including mine) had to be RMAed as they fried themselves.

I used the refund money to get another 780 for tri-SLI. Very happy with it.
 
alex_123_fra said:
Shame, pretty much every 7990 I know of (including mine) had to be RMAed as they fried themselves.

I used the refund money to get another 780 for tri-SLI. Very happy with it.
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My one got returned before the faulty PSU was detected however one of the cores ran 10c hotter than the other so I think in lifespan terms was not destined to last in the long term.

As I got a new MSI 290x and a Seasonic G (replacing the XFX brand) I was more than happy for the £399 price tag back in November. The PSU alone is nearly a ton! :D
 
Mal X said:
are you sure about that, because i'd say the 7990 is a flipping good card !
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If you happen to get one that ran the way they did in the reviews, ie: 75-80c load which was very quiet. most of them though seemed to run into the 90's and over which kicked the fan up to really annoying levels. My own card gpu1 used to routinely hit over 103c. From what I've read online it just seems to be incredibly rare for a retail card to match what reviewers experienced.
 
Gerard said:
If you happen to get one that ran the way they did in the reviews, ie: 75-80c load which was very quiet. most of them though seemed to run into the 90's and over which kicked the fan up to really annoying levels. My own card gpu1 used to routinely hit over 103c. From what I've read online it just seems to be incredibly rare for a retail card to match what reviewers experienced.
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yes it will run hot if you dont back off the volts to about 1.12, interestingly enough the FPS are the same as when you OC the card.....which makes no sense to me.

considering this, you're better off running it at 1.12v with all other settings at stock, the 7990 is nothing like the 7970, because that would OC quite easily.
 
Mal X said:
yes it will run hot if you dont back off the volts to about 1.12, interestingly enough the FPS are the same as when you OC the card.....which makes no sense to me.

considering this, you're better off running it at 1.12v with all other settings at stock, the 7990 is nothing like the 7970, because that would OC quite easily.
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Mine ran hot no matter what I did, even had fans pulling air onto it and it made no difference. Shouldn't have to mess around with voltages to get a card to perform the way just about every review claimed it did. Just seemed that the review cards used binned cores with lower voltages and a lot of the retail cards went out the door with any 7970 core that was available just to shift inventory as that was pretty much the last hurrah for that chip.

Evidenced more by the fact that if you rma one of these usually you get a refund as there's no stock of them virtually anywhere besides used ones off ebay.

At the time it really bugged me that no review site made a big deal of this, it literally was like 2 totally different cards the way the reviews talked about it being incredibly quiet and maxing out at 75-80c, retail cards for the most part it seems were loud and routinely got into the mid 90's if not more :( Loved the look of the card but it was simply a night and day difference from what they claimed it was, hot, loud and annoying.
 
yes, i bet it's the same as the 4770, badly applied thermal paste under the cooler, it might be worth redoing it soon

at 1.2v in Heaven the fans suddenly spin up and slow down, this keeps happening, it's very twitchy.... it makes one hell of a noise, this stops as soon as you undervolt it
 
Mal X said:
yes, i bet it's the same as the 4770, badly applied thermal paste under the cooler, it might be worth redoing it soon

at 1.2v in Heaven the fans suddenly spin up and slow down, this keeps happening, it's very twitchy.... it makes one hell of a noise, this stops as soon as you undervolt it
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Be careful if you do take it apart, one of the fan headers (the one at the fan furthest from the pci bracket) is literally under the edge of a heatpipe, makes taking It off very tricky. The wires in it are also very fragile, one wire went wonky on me and had to order a replacement fan from ebay. Redoing the TIM made no difference to temps anyway =/
 
Gerard said:
Be careful if you do take it apart, one of the fan headers (the one at the fan furthest from the pci bracket) is literally under the edge of a heatpipe, makes taking It off very tricky. The wires in it are also very fragile, one wire went wonky on me and had to order a replacement fan from ebay. Redoing the TIM made no difference to temps anyway =/
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ok thanks
 
MeatLoaf said:
Might not be so good news if they only give you a partial refund taking into account how long you've had it :(
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really? why is this? my card is 10months old, so how much do they knock off?
so if they cant repair my card or replace it with something as powerful, they give you back some of your money, not all of it?

sorry but that seems wrong, i paid £470 for that card 10months ago and it failed, so i either want ALL my money back or my card repaired
 
ALXAndy said:
The new consoles have 8gb overall system ram with 6gb of that going to the GPU. That means ports will use pretty much the same.
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That's actually not correct Andy.

PS4's operating system uses 3Gb of RAM and Xbones operating system uses 3.5Gb of RAM.

That would leave developers with 5Gb usable memory on PS4 and 4.5Gb on Xbone.

You then have to factor in storage for general engine code, audio and such and realistically you're looking at anything between 3-4Gb for VRAM on either machine depending on how much space is needed for audio, game engine code...etc...etc..
 
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beasty6 said:
really? why is this? my card is 10months old, so how much do they knock off?
so if they cant repair my card or replace it with something as powerful, they give you back some of your money, not all of it?

sorry but that seems wrong, i paid £470 for that card 10months ago and it failed, so i either want ALL my money back or my card repaired
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They can offer you a 'suitable' replacement which you can argue but would have to accept. It's common practice.
 
whats that that likely to be? im assuming they wont give two cards to make up for 7990 would they?

tbh i want a refund, as im using a MSI r9 290 that a friend has lent to me, and i dont really notice the difference in games compared to the 7990.
 
if gigabyte try to give me a 290 i might have to reconsider

my first thought would be

1. sell it to OCUK before it was sent to me (cost price)

2. keep it and 1-2 more, but no nvidia features for witcher 3 :(


i was actually looking at my GPU history & reliability (not to say this how all cards are just my history)

6600GGT - died XFX to blame on that one reached 100c+
7600GT - never died sold it on after 14 months
3870 - died due to PSU blew up
8800GT - never died sold on after 18 months
2x 280GTX - still working sold @ work
2x 570 2.5GB - actually using these now still working!
Gigabyte 7970 - lasted 6 months- fan failing
Gigabyte 7970 - Lasted 7 months - fan failing
Gigabyte 7970Ghz Lasted 8 months - fan Failing
Gigabyte 7990 - artfacting at 80c

now you know why i dont like gigabyte :p
 
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proberly luck of the draw as all the gigabyte cards ive owned have been great, but if i had your track record with them then i think i would be looking elsewhere
 
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