MSI 7950 Gitching

[upinsmoke2k7]

I'm in the process of deciding what gfx card to get so reading about these faults with this card is certainly off putting. I understand there rare-ish and i'm still tempted to get one for the price and the games that come with it (can't knock it in that aspect) but its a bit worrying, especially when your kinda new to pc gaming and you don't know the ins and outs.

 

[krooton]

It happens like once a week for a millisecond, so not really an issue

Same, and only on desktop. Perhaps when it switches between 2D/3D clocks?

 

[Marine-RX179]

Powerplay has been buggy since 12.8 driver and wouldn't downclock properly...and I got the same problem as you on my 5850 (didn't have this problem before 12.8) which I believe it's caused by the Powerplay problem looking at the GPU activities history, with the clock speed going up and down within splitseconds like crazy.

If I were you, I'd may be try an older driver to see if it fix it....(you could try the latest beta driver, but I heard that still not fixed the powerplay problem).

 

[jack.mitchell]

Here it is going at it on Kombustor.

Will get in touch with OcUK today!

 

[Marine-RX179]

Here it is going at it on Kombustor.

Will get in touch with OcUK today!

On your MSI Afterburner, have a look at the graph on the clock speeds to see if the core clock and memory clock are at constant max speed, or it goes up and down when those glitches happens.

 

[jack.mitchell]

No, the graph stays the same, but upon further inspection it seems that it flakes at higher temperatures.

I had the heating on last night and the office door closed so the temps were higher than usual, which explains everything!

Seems to be that 57 degrees is the breaking point, must just be a picky ASIC! Hopefully the next one will be more stable.

 

[psychodil]

No, the graph stays the same, but upon further inspection it seems that it flakes at higher temperatures.

I had the heating on last night and the office door closed so the temps were higher than usual, which explains everything!

Seems to be that 57 degrees is the breaking point, must just be a picky ASIC! Hopefully the next one will be more stable.

Try a bit more voltage then, see if it helps or makes it worse.

 

[jack.mitchell]

It makes it worse as it bumps the temperature!

 

[SkodaMart]

Try a bit more voltage then, see if it helps or makes it worse.

I tried increasing the voltage and reducing the clocks, I actually 'underclocked' my card and it made no difference in my case.

 

[jack.mitchell]

Card has been replaced under RMA, so it was faulty. Looking forward to recieving my new, new toy!

 

[Penfold99]

I have the MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 and I have just started to get this has well RMA?

 

[Rusty0611]

It doesn't stop Rusty0611 from recommending them constantly though, despite having never tried one and despite the fact he has a nice nVidia GTX 670 SLi rig.

680 and be quiet about the rest.

As has been explained to you constantly you don't need to have used a graphics card to comment on it.

They're not cars no matter how much you like the analogy.

 

[jack.mitchell]

I have the MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III OC V2 3072MB GDDR5 and I have just started to get this has well RMA?

Does it have issues with higher temperatures (higher than 57 degrees set mine off glitching) and extra voltage doesn't help?

If so, then RMA may be the way forward.

 

[Penfold99]

Does it have issues with higher temperatures (higher than 57 degrees set mine off glitching) and extra voltage doesn't help?

If so, then RMA may be the way forward.

max it goes on full load is 72 this is with an overclock, Also happens on default settings to now.