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Grey screen/tears/artifacts on new MSI 7950

You can do what you like, but the fact of the matter is.

The GTX 660 Ti is a great card. I will continue to recommend it because it works, its energy efficient, it plays all modern games at decent settings.

If anyone wishes to buy a HD 7950, it's their choice but I will continue to recommend the GTX 660Ti as the nVidia option.

If OP had posted 'loving my HD 7950' I would not have mentioned my issues.
 
OP, nVidia and ATi drivers really don't work well together.
You have said that you have a fresh W7 install, but you have also said that you have tried your nVidia card.

Have you tried a fresh install just with the ATi drivers?

It does sound like you may have a faulty card though.
 
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Lostinear said:
When it loads on dvi i get this
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Same sort of thing if I try the beta 12.9 drivers. If I clean out the drivers and restart it doesnt get this mess.
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do you get that mess on the HDMI?
 
I think you need to speak with 5UB on Monday, post in the customer support section.

A new quality PSU is never a bad purchase anyway, so I wouldn't feel too bad about that one.
 
I don't know why everybody's arguing instead of helping you here.:confused:

You have a Duff video card there !, they have not tested it properly, that's 100%.

Get hold of someone sensible in the support forum,

Hope you get all your expenses refunded also !
 
SkodaMart said:
You can do what you like, but the fact of the matter is.

The GTX 660 Ti is a great card. I will continue to recommend it because it works, its energy efficient, it plays all modern games at decent settings.

If anyone wishes to buy a HD 7950, it's their choice but I will continue to recommend the GTX 660Ti as the nVidia option.

If OP had posted 'loving my HD 7950' I would not have mentioned my issues.
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But the 660Ti isn't the Nvidia option. The 670 is. The 660Ti is comparable to the 7870.

So at best you're misguided and at worst giving absolutely terrible advice.

The 7950 has a faster bus, a better GPU, more VRAM and a VRAM amount matching its bus. Stop advising people to get an all round worse card based on your own faulty card.
 
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But the 660Ti isn't the Nvidia option. The 670 is. The 660Ti is comparable to the 7870.

So at best you're misguided and at worst giving absolutely terrible advice.

The 7950 has a faster bus, a better GPU, more VRAM and a VRAM amount matching its bus. Stop advising people to get an all round worse card based on your own faulty card.
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Solid advice +1
 
Lostinear said:
Im not getting a 660ti so lets stop the flaming please :). if i had the cash i would get a 670 but i don't so null argument.
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It's not flaming mate: he's been telling everyone recently to buy a 660Ti over a. 7950.

Which as above is ridiculous.

With regards to your card I can't think of anything else other than it being faulty. It's odd that it works in safe mode so something in the drivers is bringing out the fault.

Have you tried other drivers? Both power cables plugged in? Any adapters on the power cables off? Monitor cable changed? Nothing touching the card when it's in socket? Motherboard bios up to date ? Latest chipset drivers installed?
 
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Ok, just read the whole thread and you've already sent the card back and got a new PSU but never saw any mention of monitoring the GPU clocks.

There was some reports of AMD having been a bit too keen with downclocking with all GNC cards and people have had reports of flickers when they switch from the low 2D clocks to the 3D clocks. But one of the overclocking utitlities (I think it's Asus's GPUTweak but it may be Sapphire's Trixx - both of them work with all vendors card BTW), has the option to set the 2D mode. So what I would try is setting the 2D mode to full speed (800Mhz core, 1250Mhz memory) and see if that solves your problem since that would stop the switching.

Obviously if it does you have to see about creating a 2D profile which is faster than the default 300MHz/150Mhz but slower than full 3D since you don't want to waste power.

Also, multiple monitor settings have different clocks to normal 2D (don't remember the clocks but higher than 300/150) so you can try plugging in an other monitor if you have one.
 
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