Please advise on this graphics card problem

[ttreaders]

Hi, I bought a 7850 from ocuk just over a month ago and encountered what seems to be a common problem - grey screen of death with firefox and generally crashing when using 2d. Ocuk granted me an RMA but I reverted back to older drivers to 'fix' the problem and all seemed well so kept the card and hoped that future drivers would address the problem. A week or so back though the card starting giving me BSOD's whilst playing games and also the driver randomly crashed whilst playing also. I updated to the latest drivers and the crashes seem to have stopped but I still occasionally get websites freezing as if the computer has crashed when using flash.

I contacted ocuk who have kindly extended the rma to allow me to change the card.. the problem is this problem seems fairly common with 7850's so I don't want another and the only other option from nvidia seems to much more expensive (the 670).

What would you do in my position?

Thanks

 

[Tonester0011]

Get a 660. First i've heard about your problems, not really been paying attention to anything from the 7850s however so that could be why.

660 is priced similar to the 7870 and offers the same performance, overclocking potential is unknown to me however. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-038-KF

 

[Naitachal]

What's your budget?

 

[ttreaders]

£300 is the max I could go to really. Annoying thing is, guild wars 2 plays fine on the 7850 so don't really 'need' anything better.. but i'm wondering if I should rma the card whilst I can.

 

[Rusty0611]

£300 is the max I could go to really. Annoying thing is, guild wars 2 plays fine on the 7850 so don't really 'need' anything better.. but i'm wondering if I should rma the card whilst I can.

You can RMA it at any point. The 28 days on the RMA is just before it automatically closes. You can open a new one.

 

[Naitachal]

Do the RMA, don't loose faith - there's a solid 7850 out there for you, fingers crossed!

 

[CyberCrow]

Remove old installation of AMD/ATI,
Search and delete every AMD an ATI folders in your main drive directory,
Run CCleaner, http://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER,
Check for errors an clean registry,
Install latest AMD driver (CCC)
In Firefox/tools/advanced/ UNTICK allow hard ware acceleration.
That will solve the problem of the clocks dropping between 2d-3d volt change.

Down load MSI after burner or Sapphire Trixx an unlock voltage control.
That will sort out any of the problems you listed, mine did the same when i first brought my 7850 until i did the above.
Hope this helps
Its not the hard ware thats the problem its the software

 

[ttreaders]

Remove old installation of AMD/ATI,
Search and delete every AMD an ATI folders in your main drive directory,
Run CCleaner, http://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER,
Check for errors an clean registry,
Install latest AMD driver (CCC)
In Firefox/tools/advanced/ UNTICK allow hard ware acceleration.
That will solve the problem of the clocks dropping between 2d-3d volt change.

Down load MSI after burner or Sapphire Trixx an unlock voltage control.
That will sort out any of the problems you listed, mine did the same when i first brought my 7850 until i did the above.
Hope this helps
Its not the hard ware thats the problem its the software

Thankyou CyberCrow. When you say to unlock voltage control, what do I adjust the voltage to?

 

[CyberCrow]

There's an option in MSI ab in settings to unlock the volt so it dont keep dropping to much.
Or in Trixx tick "disable ULPS".
You only need to adjust your voltage if your Oc the card, but only when you start to get problems.
Like if you adjust the core so far an start to get errors then adjust the volt, but theres plenty of Oc threads for that.