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Oh no. Gigabyte 7970 lockups in wow. I'll be returning this for a 680 methinks.

Serial45

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Well guys.

I was overjoyed with my 7970. Until the main game I play - world of warcraft started locking my system up.

I've tested multiple other much more graphically intensive games (skyrim, Batman arkham city, Bf3) and they are all fine.

I've done some research around and it seems there is a whole load of AMD users with the same problems :( with wow / diablo 3.

I thought i'd switch over to AMD as great price on the card but now i'm sorry I changed it seems AMD has driver issues still to this day :(.

Hoping i'll be able to RMA this to overclockers and pay the extra for a 680. Just received it last thursday.
 
Still under the 14 day DSR period OcUK offer :)

Not considered a 670 over a 680? performance gap is minimal, especially with something like the GB windforce 670 :)
 
Actually looking at all the games you listed (which all scale better with Nvidia card), I don't even know why you didn't go Nvidia no offense :p The GTX670 would most likely had been a better choice for you.
 
Agreed.

I would return it under DSR (as there's nothing technically wrong with the card an RMA is likely to be rejected as it's probably driver issues) and buy a Gigabyte Windforce 670. I have the 680 version and it is a superb clocker although of course you think this comes down to luck it seems a fair amount of Windforce owners get good clockers.
 
I'll return it. I've returned things to overclockers in the past and had them returned back to me under DSR. Apprently box damage etc.

Can they do this?

I'm going to ensure I send it special delivery and photograph the packaging etc.
 
Serial45 said:
I'll return it. I've returned things to overclockers in the past and had them returned back to me under DSR. Apprently box damage etc.

Can they do this?

I'm going to ensure I send it special delivery and photograph the packaging etc.
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DSR with OcUK within 14 days is fine even if you have tested/used the card as far as I know, but you would have to pay the return delivery cost out of your own pocket.
 
Feyy said:
What drivers are you using? Try rolling back to 12.4 and see if you experience the same issue in WoW.
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using 12.6.
Frankly i've been a nvidia user for 5+ years and not had a single driver issue. Switch to AMD and get driver issues on the main game I play. It sucks. How can they bring out a product that has issues on a 7 year old game?
Left me with a bitter taste in my mouth :(.
 
WoW doesn't deserve a 7970 anyway. Wish they would make a better looking version of that game. Nothing I've played since has compared to it, but it's a hideous game in this day and age.
 
The other game works fine. But wow is the biggest MMO to date, still has over 12 million subscribers world wide. You would think a company like AMD would get its priorities straight. Had I not had this problem I wouldn't have switched back to nvidia, spent an extra £90 and it wouldn't have been a lost sale for AMD. Seems a lot of players are also having issues with diablo 3.

My point is been with nvidia for 5 years, never a single driver issue. Before that had an ATI with driver issues. 5 years on expect the driver issues to be well resolved. But jesus no. The more I read the more problems people have with AMD 7900 series in particular, having to swop out all different driver versions to get games working. I mean come on, I expected this crap back in late 1990's but in 2012?
 
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opethdisciple said:
If you get lockups, the first thing to do, is look at your own system.

Test your OC as I bet thats the source of your issues.
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I tried moving back to stock settings and swopping my 570 back in. All great. Then I looked into the AMD 7970 problems and found countless others with the same problem.
Even OCUK mentioned to me on the phone AMD have many driver issues compared to NVIDIA.

So problem solved. Should never have wasted my time buying this 7970. Never ever again.
 
Well I've played pretty much every game u can with my 7970 and never had one problem! Driver issues is 90% user error and mostly down to the persons PC configuration and not actually the game itself! I've always been AMD since the old GTS cards and just prefer the image quality over nvidia with 0 driver issues!

And matt its all an advantage my friend especially now I'm playing competitivly! :)
 
opethdisciple said:
If you get lockups, the first thing to do, is look at your own system.

Test your OC as I bet thats the source of your issues.
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Serial45 said:
I tried moving back to stock settings and swopping my 570 back in. All great.
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Nothing to do with your OC then?

Serial45 said:
Then I looked into the AMD 7970 problems and found countless others with the same problem.
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Of course you did, the more you read into any gpu's problems, the more you will find, that usually happens, it goes for them all though, not just the 79's.

Out of the 12 million Wow users, do you think everybody with 79's can't play?

All the rest of your titles worked but your pointing out D3 as a problem title why?

Serial45 said:
Even OCUK mentioned to me on the phone AMD have many driver issues compared to NVIDIA.
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Never mentioned anything about that to me on the phone before, you would think they would inform everyone to go green and just not stock the reds.

Serial45 said:
So problem solved. Should never have wasted my time buying this 7970. Never ever again.
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Better use of time on a rant about dodgy drivers, well done. :p

:)
 
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