HD5850 R.I.P

[iB CoMpL3XiTy]

Right this is a long winded post so grab a cup of hot brown and get comfy

About 3 weeks ago I had to RMA a Gigabyte HD5850, Gigabyte said they had repaired it, the problem with the card was that its 3D clocks were 710/900 instead of the default 725/1000... I put the repaired Gigabye HD5850 graphics card back in my PC and all was well, clocks were fine (I assume they flashed the BIOS or something) and gaming worked as expected.

2 Weeks pass without issue, Until I try and Run 3DMark11, during the run I get a BSOD, I thought it might be caused by my 4 Ghz overclock on my Core i7 920, I ran OCCT CPU stress test and sure enough it BSOD on me after 25 minutes, I then backed the Overclock to 3.8Ghz but this also resulted in a BSOD. Next I tried 3.6Ghz with the same voltage as I had been using for 4Ghz and this seemed stable, I ran OCCT for 7 Hours without issue.

Next day I booted the PC and received a BSOD apon start up, I then tried booting up at 3.4Ghz which also gave me a BSOD. Someone suggested that I reset the CMOS, so I did that and tried using my 3.6Ghz OC and that worked for about a day, after that failed again I decided to just run at stock and set my RAM to its rated values to ensure stability (or so I thought).

Running at stock worked for about 2 days, but today has been a complete nightmare, 6 BSODs in about 1 hour... I decided to check GPU-Z just to make sure my cards (I have 2 x HD5850's) were running correctly, I was shocked at what I was seeing...

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Powercolor HD5850 on left, Gigabye HD5850 on right.

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So there you have it 4 rops and a core running at 2500Mhz aswell as temps upto 315C...

Im really annoyed that I payed £12.50 postage to RMA this graphics card and now I have to RMA it again....Not a happy bunny.

So thanks for reading, and hope you guys have a merry x-mas!

 

[jorzeh]

Sorry bud sucks 6950 are at a nice price i just picked up a 6970 and i'm looking single GPU smoothness after having a 4870x2.

 

[MoRT489]

u should get reimbursed for faulty products, or products sent not as described that u have had to return.

 

[iB CoMpL3XiTy]

Sorry bud sucks 6950 are at a nice price i just picked up a 6970 and i'm looking single GPU smoothness after having a 4870x2.

Yeah I was looking at buying a GTX570 and go back to a single card and maybe SLI the 570 in the future.... I was planning on selling the Gigabyte (and powercolor) card and buying a GTX570 next week but doesnt look like thats gonna happen now

Enjoy your HD6970 man

 

[iB CoMpL3XiTy]

u should get reimbursed for faulty products, or products sent not as described that u have had to return.

That would be excellent, Do you have any proof, perhaps a link? Is it part of the DSR?

 

[jorzeh]

I quite like this 6970, After running some benchmarks there is deffo driver issues though with some games metro 2033 flys and AVP but some other games like RE5 don't really impress much.. early drivers as allways.

 

[kylew]

You should get reimbursed for faulty products, or products sent not as described that You have had to return.

This, anything less is unacceptable.

 

[kylew]

I quite like this 6970, After running some benchmarks there is deffo driver issues though with some games metro 2033 flys and AVP but some other games like RE5 don't really impress much.. early drivers as allways.

I don't know if that's supposed to be driver issues, or just games with badly implemented tessellation.

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

Thats weird. The first screen is showing it to have 0mb memory as well.

 

[Mr. May]

how thats one hell off an oc why dont you try flashing the bios your self ?