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So I emailed EVGA...

ALXAndy

ALXAndy

ALXAndy

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Had an idea this morning.

Given that my Radeon crashes if I let my PC go to sleep and then wake it (hitting space or pressing the power button) I came up with an idea.

If EVGA EU send me a GTX 590 I will take the 7970 out of my computer (filming as I go) then take it down to the garden before cutting it in half with a jigsaw fitted with a HSS blade and then smash it into pieces using a very large hammer.

We shall see if they reply :D
 
lrlcr said:
I suspect they'll say no...
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Me too, but hell yeah I'm ready !

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Meaker said:
Don't put your system to sleep and switch it off?

Also what are you going to do when SLI gives you issues?
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The problem with that is I run a RAID bios on my motherboard. Unlike other motherboards you can not disable it and run the board in IDE mode. Thus, start up is slow, as it is reading the drives and checking/building the arrays.

So even though I use a very good SSD start up is still slow.

I am a smoker and I do not smoke inside my house. Going down, rolling up a cig and then going outside and smoking it takes me about 15 minutes. I smoke about ten a day, that's a couple of hours I would rather not be paying for electricity or doing slow boots.

I've put three drivers on the card now and all of them are the same. When my PC wakes it either garbles the display, or, the bottom half of my desktop becomes a black hole. If I move anything down there it disappears.

So, I resorted to changing the resolution, then changing it back, then refreshing the screen. That seemed to work, but after a while got on my nerves so I just disabled sleep and put on a screen saver (fat lot of good that does).

I'm less than pleased with AMD's drivers, let's put it that way.
 
andybird123 said:
erm, so you want a company to send you an end of life card they don't make anymore as a freebie because you gave lots of money to another company (a competitor)

yeah I can see them going for that...
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That's one way of looking at it.

Then there is the other way.

The card itself is an XFX. The same one that starred in the video they made.

It would create a lot of publicity, both for EVGA and OCUK of course.

And it's hardly a freebie when I take a set of power tools to a card I spent £440 on is it?


Meaker said:
You smoke yet complain about the price to run your system for a few minutes? Why not stop smoking?
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Because I can't. It's really as simple as that.
 
Tried all of the above. It's drivers, for certain. Infact it's a wake issue that I would imagine rests with AMD's "Zero core". When stepping down it can't come back on without issues.

As for growing up? it's a bit of fun. Just because I have many grey hairs doesn't mean I have lost my sense of humour !


xsistor said:
Hahahahhahaha! They'll say no I tihnk. But you should Youtube it if it happens.
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That is exactly where I intend to take it. Hell, I might even get myself one of those stupid outfits they used in the XFX video. A really tight green one. Mind you, that would risk me looking like Mr Methane, and I've seen the sparks that come from cutting with a HSS :D

haha I burnt a hole through a set of Dickie's once when I underestimated the sparks coming from the sub floor of my car :D
 
Indeed.

Nice part is I just ordered a new workbench and some of those fancy squeezy clamps. So it would make the perfect operating table....
 
Sadly it shall not come to pass that numerous AMD cards take part in a slaughter fest.

Good old health and safety :(

Ah well, ever onward and upwards !
 
Or auction them off for charity !

I did a lot of charity work a few years back. Always like to give money to children's charities. Had a bit of a crappy childhood myself so hate seeing kids robbed of something they should be entitled to.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Have the new drivers released yesterday helped??
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The ones that scared me half to death just by reading what was said about them?

No idea. The first set I used made the screen roll like I was video taping a CRT (Alan Wake and Left 4 Dead did it). So after putting on another set and them working quite well (apart from the sleep issue) I don't fancy chancing my luck.

Usually I will only update a driver if I have a serious issue, or if a game refuses to run because it wants a new one. Learned my lesson the hard way from fixing what wasn't broken a couple of years ago.

Ended up putting on an Nvidia driver that stopped my fan spinning up and losing a perfectly good XFX 280 XXX. Not a cheap card, not a card I was in any position to replace, ended up getting a 5770 as a replacement.

I was, let's say, less than happy.
 
straxusii said:
That Nvidia driver was legendary, did you not get a FOC replacement?
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Nah. When it died Nvidia had stopped making replacements, and XFX gave them the rough end of a pineapple.

So they didn't have anything Nvidia to replace it with.

So I got shafted :(
 
Yeah I know. But I was dealing with a retailer who obviously had other ideas.

Probably because he got screwed also, but I will never know the answer to that. Either way I wrote a lovely review of that company and never bought another item from them again.
 
TheMorningStar said:
I miss my industrial filter mask, late night walks in the park just aren't the same without it.
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I miss having every tool you could ever dream of, loads of space and a "chop shop" that I could go and modify my track car til my heart's content lol.

You just don't get that kind of space in England :(
 
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