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@AMD_Vik Also do we think AMD is going to release that untapped potential from 7900 cards? Bit like how they did a driver unlock on the 5700 series to match the 2070super etc?
This was the reply by AMD_Vik the other day about the issue in the 7900XTX owners thread:
@AMD_Vik is the (lovely) AMD guy round these parts.
Did you used to be the AMD guy or have I got you completely mixed up with someone else?
I believe Matt works (worked?) for AMD but on these forums he's not an official rep liek AMD Vik is.
Yes I was the OcuK AMD forum rep back in 2015.
Excellent news. @uscool finally! Enough to tempt for a good price?
I was going to wait for the 4080 price to drop down in the $800 range before considering it for backup rig but the XTX is getting there now. If it can compete with the 4080 in VR the way it does in pancake gaming, I may go that route
This happened to me until I changed my 850w psu over to another 750w and RMAed the original one. Corsair found it faulty and sent a new 850w.
I have wondered if the PSU might not to be up to the job... but it should be? I have an 850w Seasonic supply and I'd have to go and find the box or open up my PC but I recall it being Platinum standard. It's never had to supply this much before I admit but I used a PSU calculator (https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator) for my system and it tells me I need "728W PSU" so my 850W should give me some margin to spare. I think the PSU is around... five or six years old, iirc.
That’s what I thought too. Mine was rm850x and was only 1 year old- turned out it was not coping with 400w spikes from the 7900xt
Hmmmm. You know what? Given the circumstances that I have an upcoming build I'll need it for anyway, I'll get a new PSU before I take any drastic actions. Maybe put it in this weekend if I can find the time.
It's Windows so obviously there was the occasional crash.
But to answer properly, pretty much. I had frequent crashes whenever booting up a game initially but then someone informed me that
Exactly what mine did. On load it crashed. In certain scenes on games eg TLOU etcIt's Windows so obviously there was the occasional crash.I was a doofusthat you're not supposed to run the GPU off a single cable even if that cable has two headers (so why does it have two?). I fed it off two cables and it was much better thereafter but still sporadic crashes whereas before the 7900XT system was very solid. The past couple of weeks I've been having more frequent crashes. It can run fine all day but if I start firing up some GPU-intensive ML tasks, it has a high likelihood of crashing, sometimes several times in a row until I give up on my current task. The specific type of crash is screen will go black, keyboard remains functional for a very short time after as determined by being able to put numlock light on and off but then will freeze. Oddly enough I can sometimes still talk to my computer over the network and it'll respond, e.g. network shares.
It also has started doing something slightly worrysome which is that the screen will freeze, go black, then come on again after a second.
It's Windows so obviously there was the occasional crash.I was a doofusthat you're not supposed to run the GPU off a single cable even if that cable has two headers (so why does it have two?). I fed it off two cables and it was much better thereafter but still sporadic crashes whereas before the 7900XT system was very solid. The past couple of weeks I've been having more frequent crashes. It can run fine all day but if I start firing up some GPU-intensive ML tasks, it has a high likelihood of crashing, sometimes several times in a row until I give up on my current task. The specific type of crash is screen will go black, keyboard remains functional for a very short time after as determined by being able to put numlock light on and off but then will freeze. Oddly enough I can sometimes still talk to my computer over the network and it'll respond, e.g. network shares.
It also has started doing something slightly worrysome which is that the screen will freeze, go black, then come on again after a second.
