All 7900 owners please check something..!

**ahmad** · 05-21-2006, 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by SMa

heatsinks did the trick here
no artifacts or reboots anymore

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/7069/dscn14449ax.jpg
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8320/dscn14464op.jpg

the capacitators don't seem to make any noise
but maybe that's because 11 fans make a lot of noise...

Looks good man

I think thats probably the most reasonable solution.

**valkyr** · 05-22-2006, 08:17 AM

I tried that:

No luck

Hearing a quiet noise, too. Broken or still fixable by BIOS or other stuff?

**NightCrawler™** · 05-22-2006, 08:30 AM

So the heatsinks didn't work for you....?

**valkyr** · 05-22-2006, 08:46 AM

Nope they didn't. 3DMark06 Deep Freeze keeps artifacting.

So far only tried the heatsink job and the underclocking of both GPU and Memory (to 450/660), obviously no success.

Also weird that RivaTuner detects 518,40 as CPU (shader, rop, geo) and 747MHz Memory.

**NightCrawler™** · 05-22-2006, 08:54 AM

Maybe the heat damage already took an effect on those chips... It's a shame you get piss poor response from the manufacturers... they know something is going on but leave their buyers in the miss..

**valkyr** · 05-22-2006, 09:00 AM

Yep indeed. Sent a mail to XFX yesterday and they have been shutting up until now.

In good ol' America this is a reason to sue XFX and Nvidia for what it's worth.

**Ket** · 05-22-2006, 09:57 AM

well.....look at the bright side, when your hungry at least you can cook eggs and bacon on it

**Ket** · 05-22-2006, 10:09 AM

yeah i know the feeling, ive thought ive killed some expensive stuff before an its felt like my stomach has been blown out by a mortar.

**NickS** · 05-22-2006, 10:14 AM

From eVGA Forums:

You need to sink both of those.

Thread: http://www.evga.com/community/messag...TOPIC_ID=14558

Nick

**Ket** · 05-22-2006, 10:16 AM

Originally Posted by Willis

a mortar eh....

lol thats awesome

**Ket** · 05-22-2006, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by NickS

From eVGA Forums:

You need to sink both of those.

Thread: http://www.evga.com/community/messag...TOPIC_ID=14558

Nick

old on, if we need to sink thoughs and their so obviously geting dangerously hot, why havent manufacturers taken it on themselves to put 2 decent copper sinks on them? I smell a rat on the manufacturers part.

**Hystrix^** · 05-22-2006, 10:23 AM

@ Willis, that sucks

**lross78550** · 05-22-2006, 10:25 AM

sell it to purchase a new one or planning to sell it AS a new one

either way what do i care
Lee

Originally Posted by Willis

My card died today, UNMODDED!!!

yesterday I desolderd every mod since i was planning to sell it for a new one..
It work fine after that. This morning it was also working fine, untill i came back after my work... OMG the components near by the memory ic's( at the right of it) , just burned, the card was actually flaming

Every single component get's hot it seems :/

**Hystrix^** · 05-22-2006, 10:37 AM

lol

www.whatdidyousay.be

**ahmad** · 05-22-2006, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by valkyr

I tried that:

[IMG ]http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5623/pic0011jh.jpg[ /IMG]

No luck

Hearing a quiet noise, too. Broken or still fixable by BIOS or other stuff?

If you let it overheat and then put the heatsinks, the damage has already been done. You need to install the heatsinks before it goes above the critical temp.

**valkyr** · 05-23-2006, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by ahmad

If you let it overheat and then put the heatsinks, the damage has already been done. You need to install the heatsinks before it goes above the critical temp.

Nope, prolly not. Someone put 2 120mm fans on it plus numouruous kickass OCZ heatsinks with artic silver 5 BEFORE even running the card.

It broke after the usual 3 days.

**NightCrawler™** · 05-23-2006, 02:56 AM

So much for that idea....
When are we going to hear some response from the manufacturers.. and why haven't major "news" sites made an article about it...? Hell... even the Inq doesn't mention one word about it...

**valkyr** · 05-23-2006, 03:16 AM

Only eVGA reported to know about this thing. XFX shuts up and so does Nvidia.

**Ubermann** · 05-23-2006, 03:23 AM

The noise on 7800 can be killed by filling the "coil" "house" with a bit of hot glue.

**NickS** · 05-23-2006, 10:41 AM

My dad put some Microcool Mosfet heatsinks on the chips on the back of his card.

Picture: (Click thumbs to enlarge)

Nick

**krullet** · 05-23-2006, 10:53 AM

i have 2xfx 7900gtx cards and i havent noticed any of the problems that u describe, i have done vmodds on them, and on stock cooling/stock volt i have run 3dmark with 760/940, artifact free, i dont hear the noice u are talking about either..

i dont have my hardware in any case or so,
my computer is just laying on a table...

im really satisfied with my cards,

**SMa** · 05-23-2006, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by valkyr

Only eVGA reported to know about this thing. XFX shuts up and so does Nvidia.

Someone, here in Belgium, went to the XFX factory in the Netherlands. There they said they know about the problem and that they are working on it.
For now, cards that are returned for RMA won't be replaced till all the problems are fixed.

**valkyr** · 05-23-2006, 11:34 AM

I installed the 90 Series ForceWare Drivers and one run with Deep Freeze turned out to be the most succesful I had until now. Only started to artifact a little bit on the end.

**The_NamelessOne** · 06-12-2006, 04:25 AM

i had an evga 7900Gt that broke down after a couple of weeks....it started to have strange behaviours like sudden freezes in some games, strange artifacts when working in 2D...i've rma it...but my new one ( evga sent me a 7900Gt CO ) makes the strange noise yow were talking about...it seems to increase when overclocking, when working @ 450/ 1350 the sound disappears completely....any ways to fix it ? i'm going to sell this card and go for a x1800xt...

**BigDov** · 06-12-2006, 06:42 AM

I guess I must be lucky or something then..... I've got an XFX 7900gt that I've had since it was about 2 weeks old. I'm running it at the clocks in my sig, no voltmods, no artifacting in Deep Freeze, none of these problems that anyone else is having

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