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Anyone else had loads of hardware issues with AMD current gen?

LtMatt said:
What happened to your msi 7970 oc pg?
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The first one I had (while LTG was on RMA) I had to return for DSR as I didn't calculate my finances very well :( Have since sold the replacement Lightning and now on two MSI OC's :D

kitkat9933 said:
just don't run monitoring software it's what I have to do lol.
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I need to keep an eye on temps and clocks especially once I get the cards under water after xmas :)
 
pgi947 said:
The first one I had (while LTG was on RMA) I had to return for DSR as I didn't calculate my finances very well :( Have since sold the replacement Lightning and now on two MSI OC's :D



I need to keep an eye on temps and clocks especially once I get the cards under water after xmas :)
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Don't know if it helps, but the monitoring Software I got with my ASUS RIVE motherboard seems to work fine with them.

Or you could try disabling a card at a time on your motherboard and testing the temps on each card on its own to give you a rough idea.
 
I'll sort it, my windows install is a complete mess atm from various mods and junk programs I've only needed the once, fairly sure that isn't helping matters, not to mention its still full of drivers from my gigabyte install :p
 
dont know if its been mentioned but DCII 7950's have desing flaws hence i spoke to asus to try get a recall for a VII DCII 7950 (revised cooler and pcb)
they said no
i told them how many trading standards they are breaching and threatend to take legal action
They said theyl find me a suitable 7950 DCII v2 card
now say they have a shortage of V2 cards
so im bugging them to get me a 7970DCII as they say that if a card is faulty or defective (not fit for purpose by trading standards) the user is entitled to a replacement or better product dependent on avalability.
but yeah
ASUs is to blame on the DCII 7950's
 
I was rocking a HIS 7870 but noticed artifacting when in 2d mode across all driver sets i tried, yet 3d mode was spot on; no trouble at all. Rang Overclockers yesterday and they issued an RMA and said to return the card because it is faulty. Now i'm lost without it. Got my 5850 back in and the issues are gone but it's not the same. Loved the 7870 and don't know what to do now; assuming they don't send the card back and say it's alright of course.

Actually, i hope they do send it back because i don't want there to be anything wrong with it!
 
I won't be buying an Asus gpu again, poorly designed, seemingly "for" overclockers while putting so many blocks in the way of overclockers, while charging through the teeth.

I had a 7950 from them, the cooler was embarrassingly slim with a huge shroud and tiny fans, complete waste, horrible voltage control(as in barely worked) and dodgy software making it difficult to overclock and due to the undersized heatsink pretending to be a much bigger heatsink it was also loud the second it went over 1.1v so was near useless.

Crap software, crap cards, crap coolers(started off ok, getting worse, no where near worth the money). I've gone off their mobo's also.
 
drunkenmaster said:
I won't be buying an Asus gpu again, poorly designed, seemingly "for" overclockers while putting so many blocks in the way of overclockers, while charging through the teeth.

I had a 7950 from them, the cooler was embarrassingly slim with a huge shroud and tiny fans, complete waste, horrible voltage control(as in barely worked) and dodgy software making it difficult to overclock and due to the undersized heatsink pretending to be a much bigger heatsink it was also loud the second it went over 1.1v so was near useless.

Crap software, crap cards, crap coolers(started off ok, getting worse, no where near worth the money). I've gone off their mobo's also.
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I had an Asus motherboard that caught fire running at stock. :eek: :p

psychodil said:
What model 7950 was that drunken master, a directCU?
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Sounds like it
 
Anyone come across a fix for the extremely long shutdown times i (and some others on the net) get? Sometimes it just sits there shutting down for like 30 minutes, which i then smack the reset button.
 
Rossi~ said:
Anyone come across a fix for the extremely long shutdown times i (and some others on the net) get? Sometimes it just sits there shutting down for like 30 minutes, which i then smack the reset button.
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I actually had this problem earlier this year, I thought at first my SSD was about to pack in, I since installed a streamlined/optimised version of windows 7 and thats cured it. Didn't realise it was GPU related?
 
pgi947 said:
I actually had this problem earlier this year, I thought at first my SSD was about to pack in, I since installed a streamlined/optimised version of windows 7 and thats cured it. Didn't realise it was GPU related?
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Never had the problem with the GTX580, only had it since installing the 7970. It's rather annoying.
 
I don't get long shut down times either. They were longer than what they were with my 680s installed but not massively so. Few seconds max.
 
psychodil said:
What model 7950 was that drunken master, a directCU?
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yeah, direct cu, newish to when it was available so first of any revisions.

It was just a joke how it was a triple slot cooler yet had one of the thinnest actual heatsinks I've seen on a 3rd party card, with a massive shroud and tiny thin fans. There is SOME advantage to having a gap between fan/heatsink, but not to the point you have thin fans and thin heatsink, over stock voltage the thing was instantly loud, it overclocked well but was just too noisey, at stock it was a dream in terms of noise.

The whole point of a third party "designed for overclockers" card is to have one designed to overclock further or be quieter when overclocked, or both, it was a heatsink/fan combo perfect for stock, terrible for overclocked. It went back though, managed to get it for a steal from a place that takes stuff back easily so it went back and I got an even better deal on a 7970(it cost more but had far more off, I forget the price but it didn't cost much more in the end). So worked out pretty good but, I'm just less than impressed. I also had a Asus 6950, or 5850, forget which at the moment. either way that card had a thicker heatsink and just worked WAY better overall, quieter, overclocked further while still relatively quiet, though not brilliant to be honest.
 
Rossi~ said:
Anyone come across a fix for the extremely long shutdown times i (and some others on the net) get? Sometimes it just sits there shutting down for like 30 minutes, which i then smack the reset button.
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Yeah, get an SSD drive :D

No seriously i have never had a problem like that. :)
 
nope went from gtx280 sli, removed drivers took out gpu plugged in new 7970 "bought the first one when it was released" I press the power button on the case and windows does all the shutdown max 10 secs also just recently bought the gigabyte one running crossfire and shutdown has not changed, did not reinstall windows 7 when I changed from nvidia.
I have an 6gb ssd 128gb connected to an pci express card.

Kenneth
 
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