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Unbelievable ! 2 GPU's failing.

Alan McFall

Alan McFall

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7870 and 7950 both artifacting, one went yesterday the other today... coinkidonks or AMD sabotage !?!?!?!

Spent the night stripping them down whilst watchin footy, re-pasted and padded. Gonna strip the drivers and give em a good testing tomorrow.. Unbelievable I tell ya's !
 
Alan McFall said:
7870 and 7950 both artifacting, one went yesterday the other today... coinkidonks or AMD sabotage !?!?!?!

Spent the night stripping them down whilst watchin footy, re-pasted and padded. Gonna strip the drivers and give em a good testing tomorrow.. Unbelievable I tell ya's !
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lol if AMD had planned to obsolete/toast your GPUs they would have done it a long time ago and not at a time where they couldn't get any money from you due to the current shortages :).
But I get the frustration and hope your issues get resolved. Keep us posted :)
 
Phixsator said:
lol if AMD had planned to obsolete/toast your GPUs they would have done it a long time ago and not at a time where they couldn't get any money from you due to the current shortages :).
But I get the frustration and hope your issues get resolved. Keep us posted :)
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There's loads of AMD cards in stock
 
Major774 said:
Time to move to team green?
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I think even team blue could manage against a 10 year old card.

Once thing to note with those ones is they don't play well with modern hardware. Anything with a modern UEFI will likely cause problems, I also got all sorts of artefacts and boot problems when I tried my old 7950 in a newer system.
 
Alan McFall said:
7870 and 7950 both artifacting, one went yesterday the other today... coinkidonks or AMD sabotage !?!?!?!

Spent the night stripping them down whilst watchin footy, re-pasted and padded. Gonna strip the drivers and give em a good testing tomorrow.. Unbelievable I tell ya's !
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What are you using such old GPU's for?
 
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If you artifacts it's a sign that the video memory is on the way out, you could try down clocking the memory speed and see if that helps mitigate the problem.
 
I would laugh, as this is the ultimate sods law that normally only applies to me, but I won't laugh as I also have an AMD card and I don't fancy paying top whack to replace it, so I'll keep the Karma card tucked away in the top pocket.

Hard luck.
 
They may be old but a good 7950 can be flashed with a 7970 bios and do a very good job at 1920x1080. I rebuilt an old system around one for my wife due to the shortages.
 
Anorc said:
They may be old but a good 7950 can be flashed with a 7970 bios and do a very good job at 1920x1080. I rebuilt an old system around one for my wife due to the shortages.
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indeed i was one that did it:D those were the days of free performance upgrades, used to be sweating buckets while it flashed, but i never once bricked a card, erm yet:D
 
dave28 said:
dont know anything about that, all i know if i have had two seasonic psu`s for over 10 years and never had a single PC part fail on me
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I'm on my same Corsair HX850 for 10 years. Using it in my new Ryzen 5800x build thing is solid.

I'm not saying Seasonic are not good by the way.
 
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