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OCUK 6970 TFIII (Lightning) review.
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Yeh ive got the latest drivers, even tried it on the older ones before I got these.
But thanks Andy Ill put it back to stock to play Crysis, I have tried before but I was a bit inpatient and it crashed but didnt really give it a propper test, ill have a go later.
But thanks Andy Ill put it back to stock to play Crysis, I have tried before but I was a bit inpatient and it crashed but didnt really give it a propper test, ill have a go later.
And that, said the mayor, was that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZR2l9xxvTc&feature=youtu.be
Who do I send it back to?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZR2l9xxvTc&feature=youtu.be
Who do I send it back to?
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Is that your card? When did that happenWell that was odd.
Realised I had the overdrive enabled on CCC. Disabled CCC completely (preventing it from booting at all) and tried Kombustor on extreme. This is with the 940 bios back on and CCC disabled completely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZKWtbAyVFM
It even stayed stable when playing Crysis.
Could be nothing more than CCC and AB getting in one anothers' way. Will now test the card in Kombustor for an hour or so.
Realised I had the overdrive enabled on CCC. Disabled CCC completely (preventing it from booting at all) and tried Kombustor on extreme. This is with the 940 bios back on and CCC disabled completely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZKWtbAyVFM
It even stayed stable when playing Crysis.
Could be nothing more than CCC and AB getting in one anothers' way. Will now test the card in Kombustor for an hour or so.
a lot of them are faulty, i think it's pretty poor from OCUK to keep pushing the card on deals when they must have already realised that a large amount are faulty, Maybe the MSI should be taking them all back.
Mine's been fine since i put newpaste on the cooler. will try crysis tomorrow as not feeling great today
Mine's been fine since i put newpaste on the cooler. will try crysis tomorrow as not feeling great today
Well my mate has installed the same drivers as me and his 5870 is locked at 400mhz.
I've now had kombustor running at 940 with CCC completely disabled for 25 minutes.
Edit. I am beginning to become convinced that I'm having driver issues. Not very reassuring when I just spent £439 on a bloody 7970
Edit. And now with CCC completely out of the picture my card is maxing at 63c with the fans at 70% (they used to go straight to 100)
Edit. This porn music is doing my head in. I keep having images of Ron Jeremy and co flash in my head :S
I've now had kombustor running at 940 with CCC completely disabled for 25 minutes.
Edit. I am beginning to become convinced that I'm having driver issues. Not very reassuring when I just spent £439 on a bloody 7970
Edit. And now with CCC completely out of the picture my card is maxing at 63c with the fans at 70% (they used to go straight to 100)
Edit. This porn music is doing my head in. I keep having images of Ron Jeremy and co flash in my head :S
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Gonna have to RMA mine.
Tried Kombustor, reached over 100c in seconds. :/
Tried Kombustor, reached over 100c in seconds. :/
Have you disabled CCC? I mean, totally disabled it?
Open Msconfig (type it in the run bar).
Open startup.
Stop anything AMD running.
Then set things up in Afterburner and try that.
I'm pretty certain now that what I was getting was a conflict between the two.
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I dunno if that's the issue.
Took the card out, tighten the screw holding the cooler in slightly, put it back and fired up Kombustor, 74c max, with fan on auto (stayed at 60% when it reached 74c), seems fine, should the temp be lower?
Gonna try disabling CCC and run Kombustor again.
edit: disabled CCC using msconfig and rebooted, fired up Kombustor, same temp, made no difference whatsoever.
Took the card out, tighten the screw holding the cooler in slightly, put it back and fired up Kombustor, 74c max, with fan on auto (stayed at 60% when it reached 74c), seems fine, should the temp be lower?
Gonna try disabling CCC and run Kombustor again.
edit: disabled CCC using msconfig and rebooted, fired up Kombustor, same temp, made no difference whatsoever.
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Well my mate has installed the same drivers as me and his 5870 is locked at 400mhz.
I've now had kombustor running at 940 with CCC completely disabled for 25 minutes.
Edit. I am beginning to become convinced that I'm having driver issues. Not very reassuring when I just spent £439 on a bloody 7970
Edit. And now with CCC completely out of the picture my card is maxing at 63c with the fans at 70% (they used to go straight to 100)
Edit. This porn music is doing my head in. I keep having images of Ron Jeremy and co flash in my head :S
Like i said earlier i think some people must surely be having some driver issues. Defo seems like some over heating probs with some cards. Mine was doing that and sent it straight back. My replacement was fine. But ive not touched any overclock settings yet - don't want to tempt anything. That plus i think you lose warranty. Still tempting to overclock though lol
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Drivers doesn't seem to be the cause of overheating issues with this card, it's more to do with the cooler not being adjusted properly (or conflicts between CCC and AB), I fixed mine by adjusting the cooler.
It's getting better now, 71c max at 940/1375.
It's getting better now, 71c max at 940/1375.
Not a driver issue. Today it won't run Crysis for toffee.
I requested an RMA with OCUK but I'm not going to agree to the terms. They say if they test it and don't find fault then I get stuffed a whopping fee and shipping each way.
I can see why they do it, but quite frankly to return a card that is intermittently faulty with such terms is financial suicide.
Got caught out by another company last year, ended up £27 out of pocket with a motherboard that was fit for nothing more than being a paperweight, £88 out of pocket over all.
Was my own stupidity really for agreeing to terms like that. This time I want MSI to replace it, and replace it they will.
My temps are absolutely brilliant, and I can run synthetics all night long without a single problem.
Sadly it's when I try and use it for actual gaming that it flops. And I don't expect OCUK to sit down for an hour playing Crysis or Fallout 3 to replicate the problem, hence I don't want to agree to their terms.
Will just make MSI deal with it. They were the ones selling cards that didn't make the grade, so they're the ones who are inevitably responsible for them when they go teets up.
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I tried playing Crysis again and it still doesnt work...... Crashes randomly after 5-10 mins of heavy play, even with lower settings. It only happens when im doing something stressful in game like moving fast or just playing with lots of stuff going on, and it does it randomly, not at a specific moment.
I have the same sort of problem with Serious sam 3 aswell, crashes the same within 5-10 minutes of heavy play. (game freezes, screen goes black with the bottom half fuzzy and goes to desktop with the AMD driver had to restart message)
I just thought it was the games at first but it happened with Mafia 2 today aswell...
Really dissapointed it plays BF3 and other games ok but im pretty sure its the GPU thats at fault because it cant be the games all doing the same thing, plus others have had the problem.
Dont know what to do... I may just end up keeping it as its only these 3 games I have problems with but like I said its defiantly the card thats at fault and I wonder if I just keep it will it get worse or the problem persist?
I have the same sort of problem with Serious sam 3 aswell, crashes the same within 5-10 minutes of heavy play. (game freezes, screen goes black with the bottom half fuzzy and goes to desktop with the AMD driver had to restart message)
I just thought it was the games at first but it happened with Mafia 2 today aswell...
Really dissapointed it plays BF3 and other games ok but im pretty sure its the GPU thats at fault because it cant be the games all doing the same thing, plus others have had the problem.
Dont know what to do... I may just end up keeping it as its only these 3 games I have problems with but like I said its defiantly the card thats at fault and I wonder if I just keep it will it get worse or the problem persist?
Eeyup. Sadly it is random and it is intermittent. And this is why I won't be returning the card to OCUK as I will be agreeing to their T&C and waiving my rights. Not going to happen sadly.
It's not their fault, as I bet they get hours of their time wasted by clueless dippies, but bottom line is they won't spend two hours gaming on my card. Thus, they won't find the fault and thus, I will end up getting screwed. TBH even though I shouldn't have to (got the trading laws laid out in front of me) I wouldn't mind waiving my rights and paying for return shipping. I really wouldn't, as I just want a working card. What makes it even more of a mess is that I had it sold to a mate of mine who has now sold his card. Thing is, it isn't the £11 or whatever I am worried about, more about the £27 or so as it ends up and getting it back the same as when it left.
Today I tried to force the issue. Sadly the card is a royal dick and won't play ball when I want it to. It took me 40 mins and numerous formats of my camera's SD card to make this happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuPCveqNv10&feature=youtu.be
Skip through it there's nothing much to see until it dies. And then this time instead of trying to force the issue I just stopped recording and sat back.. Twelve minutes later I got this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSehG2bKGpY
So yeah. I can't see OCUK spending hours of their time to make that happen, nor do I expect them to. But, I'm not agreeing to basically waste loads of money and time and then get back the same paper weight for a GPU that I had before.
I've sent MSI an email. It took me over two hours and numerous unanswered phone calls to finally just get an email address.
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Thanks for sharing your experience.
That is pretty much the same thing I get (EDIT; not the red/blue screens), it freezes, screen then goes black (but also half the time has the bottom half of the screen with horizontal sort of snow) and crashes to desktop and has that same message pop up in the bottom right corner.
It is very random.... I can play Crysis for quite long (or not) but also if im just strolling around it will be fine, it only happens in combat/stress and only then it is as you say random. I had a few more tries and one time it took 20 minutes the other 5 and the other I cant remeber but everytime I play it I know its goingto happen and sure enough it does, the exact same problem with Serious Sam and Ive tried many times to play it and nobady else has the same problem as me on that game.
Strangely enough ive played many hours in BF3 and it hasent happened once I dont think. I think it will only happen in a stressful but poorly optimized demanding game.
I will try to take a video also a bit later to show the problem
That is pretty much the same thing I get (EDIT; not the red/blue screens), it freezes, screen then goes black (but also half the time has the bottom half of the screen with horizontal sort of snow) and crashes to desktop and has that same message pop up in the bottom right corner.
It is very random.... I can play Crysis for quite long (or not) but also if im just strolling around it will be fine, it only happens in combat/stress and only then it is as you say random. I had a few more tries and one time it took 20 minutes the other 5 and the other I cant remeber but everytime I play it I know its goingto happen and sure enough it does, the exact same problem with Serious Sam and Ive tried many times to play it and nobady else has the same problem as me on that game.
Strangely enough ive played many hours in BF3 and it hasent happened once I dont think. I think it will only happen in a stressful but poorly optimized demanding game.
I will try to take a video also a bit later to show the problem