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Have you swapped your MSI 7950?

cjph said:
I have a TF3 which I purchased a week ago and I believe is one of the new batch, but with an idle temp of 54'C and what I think is excessive noise under load I am sending it back (it is hotter and louder than the previous reference card it replaced). Problem is its the only 7950 I have found which will fit in my case so HIS and Windforce are not optiond. I'll see if/what MSI come back with as I would really like to use the card.

And am getting the usual high standard of service from OCUK, thanks to 5UB.

cj
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What abouth 660ti than?
 
4737Joker said:
It would be nice to know if it was only a portion of the batch that is faulty, and if the others that seem ok at the moment(mine for example) will develop this problem.
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Don't think it will develop it at a later date - the ones that are faulty are so out of the box and related to a combination of poorly applied TIM/faulty cooler by the looks of it.
 
I play games over 3 screens and all the reviews on the titles I mainly use show the 7950 with slightly better performance than the 660Ti (a wider data bus helps, and I get the impression the larger memory assists caching with some titles). The Gigabyte is a few cm longer and so unlikely to fit my case.

I am also not experienced with the Nvidia Surround offering, and have a Xfire ready motherboard.

cj
 
cjph said:
I play games over 3 screens and all the reviews on the titles I mainly use show the 7950 with slightly better performance than the 660Ti (a wider data bus helps, and I get the impression the larger memory assists caching with some titles). The Gigabyte is a few cm longer and so unlikely to fit my case.

I am also not experienced with the Nvidia Surround offering, and have a Xfire ready motherboard.

cj
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Over 3 screens I doubt 660Ti could handle anything.

The 7950 is way faster than a 680 over 3 screens :).
 
I must have gotten very lucky, ordered back in August and with 55% fan speed, core oc'd to 1000mhz, the temps never go above 62c, idles at about 27-29c.

It's a great card if you got a non faulty one.
 
I don`t know if i should give MSI another chance now.
Since so many people say that bought this old/new batch has lots o failures.
I think I will just go for gigabyte 7950...
 
I've had my Card RMA'd but because the fans run up to 100% and there is no POST when I boot. Tested in multiple computers, it's bricked. Mildly ironic that with all the dodgy cards floating around, I get one that is actually DOA :/
I also got done byt he post office. £13.80 to send via ParcelForce =/
 
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