57xx and 58xx locking problems with stripes

[HeXploiT]

I don't think it has to do with AMD's ownership. My former HD4870 was also produced under AMD's ownership and that card was absolutely rockstable and always worked flawless.

It's just the drivers for these cards that plain suck. i kinda regret gettin 2x 5770 instead of another 4870 but it's a done deal now. Let's hope ATI will come up with a driver that will solve all this so we can start enjoying our cards.

That's your hypothesis. My card(5870) won't run stressful 3d titles at it's advertised clocks. However if I clock both the memory and core down 7% it plays everything flawlessly. Is this a driver issue? Unlikely.
More like hardware that does not live up to the hype.

[Darxide]

That's your hypothesis. My card(5870) won't run stressful 3d titles at it's advertised clocks. However if I clock both the memory and core down 7% it plays everything flawlessly. Is this a driver issue? Unlikely.
More like hardware that does not live up to the hype.

See, thats whats bugging me. Nobody really knows, and the problem is different for everybody. Thats whats so frustrating.
I've tried underclocking my card, core and RAM. It made no difference to me.
(Although I'd be pissed if thats what I had to do, because it's not as advertised).
Maybe this has to do with the low yield issue at TSMC. Maybe they shipped GPU's that they knew where not up to scratch just to meet demand. That would explain why some work, some don't, some work if underclocked, really bad ones still won't work even underclocked.
Im starting to think you may be right HeXploiT, If that turns out to be the case, then ATi's rep is trashed in my eyes.
OK, it's just another theory, but until ATi say something, thats all we have.

[kiwi]

Well, you can still rma the cards. Sure it is pain in the ass but there is not much you can do about it.

A week or so passed and I can say that my 5870 works absolutely flawless I guess I should be lucky this time

[HeXploiT]

See, thats whats bugging me. Nobody really knows, and the problem is different for everybody. Thats whats so frustrating.
I've tried underclocking my card, core and RAM. It made no difference to me.
(Although I'd be pissed if thats what I had to do, because it's not as advertised).
Maybe this has to do with the low yield issue at TSMC. Maybe they shipped GPU's that they knew where not up to scratch just to meet demand. That would explain why some work, some don't, some work if underclocked, really bad ones still won't work even underclocked.
Im starting to think you may be right HeXploiT, If that turns out to be the case, then ATi's rep is trashed in my eyes.
OK, it's just another theory, but until ATi say something, thats all we have.

Understand. It's sort of wishful thinking at this point since refund is out of the question and RMA is all we have. I, as you, will continue to hope that drivers fix the problem.

[NanoBullet]

See, thats whats bugging me. Nobody really knows, and the problem is different for everybody. Thats whats so frustrating.
I've tried underclocking my card, core and RAM. It made no difference to me.
(Although I'd be pissed if thats what I had to do, because it's not as advertised).
Maybe this has to do with the low yield issue at TSMC. Maybe they shipped GPU's that they knew where not up to scratch just to meet demand. That would explain why some work, some don't, some work if underclocked, really bad ones still won't work even underclocked.
Im starting to think you may be right HeXploiT, If that turns out to be the case, then ATi's rep is trashed in my eyes.
OK, it's just another theory, but until ATi say something, thats all we have.

Mine was with the stripes, from one day to the other after doing a clean install, this time what i did diferent just like a said a few days ago was changing from IDE to AHCI, installed a new soundcard and turned off onboard card. A now it's just wow, no problems at all. nothing zip. I'm running 9.11 + latest ati bios!

I would say more that's an update to windows, which one i don't know! But from everything we've seen so far, it's the most common thing that would fit the most to all users