HUGE eVGA announcement for 7900 series owners!

[Brahmzy]

http://www.evga.com/community/messag...TOPIC_ID=17364

Woohoo!

[Call me Ugly]

Submitted my RMA minutes after that thread was posted, I've been waiting for a real fix.

Notice no SC cards on the list? Makes me worry that these new cards may fail after OC'd. And lest we get too excited, we must remember that these retards had cards they claimed to have looped in 3dMark06 and FEAR for RMA's, and had those RMAs subsequently fail in said applications.

Fingers crossed,
Ugly

[qdemn7]

Well my brand new EVGA 7900 GT KO (564 series) I got via Step-Up went tits up after only 4 days. Got it Thursday the 6th, today Sunday the 9th it locks up, BSOD or the screen has confetti when trying to game or run any 3D Mark app. I've put in for my RMA and am SUPPOSED to get of the new 584 series as I posted above.

I spoke to an EVGA Tech and he said they new cards are straight from Nvidia and supposed to be one where the problems are fixed. Seems like Nvidia is fixing things but does't want anyone to really know. The vendors are left holding the bag.

BTW, these new cards ARE showing up at Newegg.

[qdemn7]

Got my brand new 256-P2-N584-BR 7900GT KO via RMA, and it runs great. I ran 4 hours of continuous Deep Freeze loops from 3D Mark 06 and it still runs fine. So it would be safe to say the problem is solved. So I would say if you want a 7900 get one of the new series of cards.

Thanks EVGA for top quality service.

[Reinvented]

eh, they are just RoHS compliant...with infineon chips...nothing more really.

I find that these ones clock like crap now. that's still okay though, still score pretty high in 3d benchies.

[Vric]

gotta love eVGA. They are the only maker that admitted the problem and worked to solve it.

BFG ignored it
XFX closed their forum because it was bad for their image.

Nice to see a fix for 7900 owner.

[afireinside]

eh, they are just RoHS compliant...with infineon chips...nothing more really.

I find that these ones clock like crap now. that's still okay though, still score pretty high in 3d benchies.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=322814

So these new ones suck?

[Reinvented]

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=322814

So these new ones suck?

I tested them both individually with Coolbits AND Rivatuner, and I couldn't bring it past 520/780 without artifacting. My first 4 sets, they did fantastic, before they died of course. They were doing 620/810 easily on stock voltages. Maybe I just got unlucky..? Who knows. They use infineon chips, and if memory serves me right, they sucked massively. I was so unhappy with my set. I wouldn't expect them to do any better on video cards either...

I am however, pleased to announce that these cards to do work. ALL RMA's get the new SKU batches of cards that are RoHS compliant, and have infineon chips, etc. Then retailers will get them, etc, etc.

There's also said to be people getting a KO clocked card (500/750) even though you turn your card in that's higher such as KO SC, CO, CO SC, GTX KO, GTX CO SC, etc. Just make sure you check!

[Call me Ugly]

I tested them both individually with Coolbits AND Rivatuner, and I couldn't bring it past 520/780 without artifacting.

Me too, only 530\785 on my N584 and my old card did 560\870 easy before it started acting up. I've heard only similar crappy results... from folks I deem trustworthy anyway, not the noobsauce* on EVGA forums.

I can forgive if the ram is slower but stable, but I'm really dissapointed in the gpu.

Ugly


*I plagiarized that word from ZX7891

[Reinvented]

Me too, only 530\785 on my N584 and my old card did 560\870 easy before it started acting up. I've heard only similar crappy results... from folks I deem trustworthy anyway, not the noobsauce* on EVGA forums.

Oh for sure. My SS cards gave out on me too, and i just gave up on them. Offed it to someone else so they could play the RMA game. And damn, it's been fun and all, but after 8 RMA's (16 cards), i'm so done. The NEW ones I got, didn't clock any higher than stock which is 600/1600 i believe.

I think it's a bios thing that's limiting us mostly, which is sad. Not necessarily the GPU or memory itself.

Yes, they are noobs on eVGA forums...thinking a OCZ GameXStream puts out 72a...lol

I swear, each moment i spent there, i lost a sperm and a brain cell. All for the sake of figuring out what to do with my cards next.

[likewhoa]

have any of you guys thought about just raising your pcie frequency to 220? this fixed all my artifact/bsod/blinking screen/omg wtfux0r this video card sucks problems,.. now all 3dmark's pass with flying colors..
try it.. raise it to 220 and you'll see.. sucks evga would not suggest this..

below are my screenshots for varies 3dmark benchmarks to prove my point.

3dmark01@default settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark03@default settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark03@1600x1200-max settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark05@default settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark05@1600x1200-max settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark06@default settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark06@1600x1200-max settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/qdig...-1600x1200.PNG

[qdemn7]

I swear, each moment I spent there, I lost a sperm and a brain cell.

Anyone who would dress their poor dog up like Yoda is already short a few million brain cells to start with.

You had better be careful, you can't afford to loose many more.

[xenolith]

have any of you guys thought about just raising your pcie frequency to 220? this fixed all my artifact/bsod/blinking screen/omg wtfux0r this video card sucks problems,.. now all 3dmark's pass with flying colors..
try it.. raise it to 220 and you'll see.. sucks evga would not suggest this..

below are my screenshots for varies 3dmark benchmarks to prove my point.

3dmark01@default settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark03@default settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark03@1600x1200-max settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark05@default settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark05@1600x1200-max settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark06@default settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/?Qwd...v=thumbs&Qis=M

3dmark06@1600x1200-max settings
http://weboperative.com/gallery/qdig...-1600x1200.PNG

220mhz pcie bus? Spec is only 100mhz.

[likewhoa]

220mhz pcie bus? Spec is only 100mhz.

oops that's a typo, it's at 120Mhz

[likewhoa]

xenolith do you have issues with your xfx card in DeepFreeze?
if so, raise your pcie frequency by 20Mhz and retry

[BigDisk]

So does the +20 MHz on PCI-E work or not?

[Nistomax]

Good to see them fixing the problem. Was it happening on all brands of 7900 or just evga's cards?

[Drunner611]

Just EVGA, cuz they were getting clocked so high.

[Reinvented]

So does the +20 MHz on PCI-E work or not?

For some people it works...but be forewarned, that if you raise the pci-e frequency, your hard drives will becoming corrupt. So, technically, it's not worth it imho.

[Brahmzy]

Just EVGA, cuz they were getting clocked so high.

Wrong. It's happened on ALL brands. eVGA's the only one fixinf the problem though.

I love my new "AR" 7900GT KO. 1.5VMod and NO problems.