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Have I made the wrong choice?

Would i have the option to return it and pay a bit extra for a different card?

What would people recommend? I could stretch to maybe putting another £120 on towards to different card.

I will run it through more tests tonight and try get some better videos with software etc.
 
These cards seem strangely temperamental in some systems. I've had mine for just over a month now and it is brilliant for the money I paid. Straight up to 1200 clock without any fuss and I've not experienced a crash in any game I play. The silicon lottery I guess.
 
dandubi said:
Would i have the option to return it and pay a bit extra for a different card?
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I would just DSR it for a refund and then re-order, if you just return it as faulty they might do insufficient testing and then send it back.

dandubi said:
I will run it through more tests tonight and try get some better videos with software etc.
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Try underclocking the core to reference speed (925mhz) and see if that fixes it, if not then try memory. I suspect the factory overclock is not stable either way.
 
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I had serious problems with my 7970 ASUS MP. Try your best to resolve the issues but consider RMA'ing (if over 14 days from purchase) or DSR'ing them (within 14 days)

1. Lower memory clock
2. Add more Core voltage
3. If this fails, send them back

This is not OCUK's issue but rather ASUS. I strongly feel they are throwing these out with zero/limited QA. There have been too many problems to be random electrical hardware issues

IMO anyway!
 
My order date was: 25 Oct, 13, 3:53 pm and received it Monday 28th :(

Would adjusting the clock / voltage create any issues of me sending this back?

Just seems a bit silly having to mess / lower / increase with settings on a supposedly out of the box OC and paying a bit extra for the convenience..
 
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If you have to lower the clock speeds to get it to work why would you want it?

If it doesn't do what it says on the tin it is no good. Send it back and pay the extra for something else if thats what you want to do, im sure OCUK will be happy to let you.
 
4737Joker said:
If you have to lower the clock speeds to get it to work why would you want it?
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You wouldn't, but it helps to know that that is actually the problem to rule out other possible causes.

dandubi said:
Just seems a bit silly having to mess / lower / increase with settings on a supposedly out of the box OC and paying a bit extra for the convenience..
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You don't know that the factory overclock is the problem yet, hence lowering clocks to test it.
 
dandubi said:
My order date was: 25 Oct, 13, 3:53 pm and received it Monday 28th :(

Would adjusting the clock / voltage create any issues of me sending this back?

Just seems a bit silly having to mess / lower / increase with settings on a supposedly out of the box OC and paying a bit extra for the convenience..
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As of today you are still within the OcUK 14 Day Satisfaction Guarantee.....get on the phone?
 
If they try to wriggle out you can always RMA it if it's faulty but you might want to lower the clocks first and make sure it is actually the cause.
 
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