Duff 7900 or duff drivers?

[marinecommando]

Hey all,

got a new rig as described in sig, and i seem to have a problem with my BFG 7900 OC (670mhz) with texture and geometry corruption.

Please see BF2 and CSS screenys:

BF2 at 800x600 medium settings, filtering disabled.

CSS at 1600x1200 6AA, 16AA max settings.

http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0004vq.jpg
http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screen0019di.jpg






I have tried the 83.20 drivers that came with it, the 84.20s, the 84.21s and the tweaked ones from guru3d.

Is this likly to be a drivers problem or is it looking like being a duff board?

It dosent appear to be overheating as when i checked straight after the corruption appears the card was showing as 43 degrees c.

Any help much appriciated.

Thanks

MC

 

[Cyber-Mav]

looks like artifacting, hardware problem.

 

[marinecommando]

Damn

Second opinion anyone?

 

[Goksly]

if the effects look the same with all drivers uve tried.... RMA it.

 

[mmj_uk]

dodgy memory imo and that's far worse than what mine was, if you've had it less than 7 days you can return it for full refund which is what i did.

 

[Duff-Man]

Going to have to go with faulty hardware as well.

 

[Dup]

On another forum there was a thread about this. It typically shows up in BF2 only so people jump on the EA/Dice bashing wagon or nVidia drivers wagon. The problem was with XFX cards only though.

I however have an XFX card which is factory overclocked and I've pushed it to silly speeds and I get no issues with BF2 on the latest patch and the 84.20 drivers.

It is definitely a dodgy batch of chips on some boards, as people have RMA'd their cards and their new cards have run fine without a reinstall etc.

Try downclocking the RAM and GPU on the card and see if it clears up. If you half the values and still get bad artefacts you definitely have a dodgy card.

 

[marinecommando]

I've recived an identical BFG 7900 GTX Oc this morning and have been running 3DMark2003 and 2006 pretty much constantly all morning and over lunch and there hasnt been a single issue with corrupting graphics

Looks liek it was a dodgy card!! will be send ing back tomorrow for a refund.

Cheers Chaps!