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HIS is a miserable pile of pig shit as far as video card companies go. They're either giving you the run around out of willful negligence and intentional red-tape or sheer incompetence; either way, the sooner we all stop buying from them, the better off we'll be. Too bad their name is so hard...

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Ah, HIS. My mortal enemy. I tried that IceQx2 cooler back when I was in a mess of buying then RMAing 7970s for coil whine. I gotta say, it was the worst of them, with not only a whine under the typical scenarios (hundreds of fps, folding), but a lower-pitched, MUCH more annoying buzzing...

I might be being presumptuous, but I'd bet money on it. The "rattle" seems to come from the loosely-attached-fins-so-they-can-contract-and-expand-from-heat oscillating with changes in fan speed. Across the 3 models I've heard it on, they all had different fan speed percentages where it was most...

Is it the fan rattling specifically, or the aluminum heatsink fins at the end of the card? Try putting pressure on the edges of the fins to see if it stops. I say this because I had 3 different Galaxy 660Tis that had a similar problem, and somebody here had it on their 780 HOF ("GALAXY GTX 780...

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I'd like to believe $550 as well, but why would Raja smile if the card they were releasing was going to disappoint people hoping for a lower price? I'd shake my head if I had to think about all those rumor websites that are constantly setting the bar lower for price estimates and making people...

If everything AMD is promising turns out to be up to snuff, then they might finally win me back over... Their drivers chased me away the first time; let's hope that's a thing of the past. Yay for progress! :D

Then you wouldn't have to buy their new cards. :D

Cook once or twice instead of going out to eat. Problem solved! At least that's what I tell myself I'll do to justify a premium on a video card :D

2D clocks issue with 79x0 cards, particularly noticeable with flash and video file playback. Still an issue a year and a half after release. I got tired of waiting and ended up selling my cards and went back to nVidia.

It could be that you have the same rattle I had/have with 3 Galaxy 660 Tis (including my current one). In my case at least, the noise comes from the loose metal heatsink fin edges vibrating/rattling with changes in the wind from the fans. I eventually decided to live with it considering all the...

I say get the 760 because it's a good price for the amount of performance, opening up a SLI possibility in the near future but also (and, more likely) being less costly to replace when the next die shrink and/or architecture comes out since we're currently on the "tock," so to speak. Plus, if...

I like any of the manufacturers that have a transferable warranty (EVGA, Galaxy, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte) because of the idea that when I sell 1-2 years down the line, the new owner won't hassle me if something happens.

Ah, coil whine. The bane of my existence. If anything, it's because they're high-end cards that coil whine becomes more noticeable an issue. More components under a higher proportion of stress while consuming more power just increases the likelihood that the interplay between components will...

Hear, hear.

It's an inherent issue with the 79x0 cards. See my post here, as well as a user claiming that there is a driver fix in the works... The flicker occurs when they switch out of idle clocks. and is most apparent when in 2D apps like browser flash and video playback. The only solution I've been...

I'd totally buy a Titan [H]arder.

If you're trying to argue for reasonable doubt, then the onus is still on the company to prove that the customer did in fact, without a doubt, cause the damage themselves. If it was the other way, and the customer had to exhaustively prove the reverse, then we are justified in treating them as...

Literally same as directly above post. Could not take the added heat and noise, and frames weren't all that much better than the 600 series cards I tried after. It was an easy decision for me, even if the cards looked pretty cool.

They might tell me I broke it if I RMA it, so no soup for me.

Not true. One time my GPU was possessed by Satan and started talking to me in the middle of the night. In all seriousness, I'm glad an ASUS rep was brave enough to walk into the shitstorm here. Maybe something will happen now...

Good on you pliskin, I posted on the thread you made over at the ASUS support forums. Though I wonder how long they'll let it stay open...

Have you directed them to this thread OP? And to the fact that everyone who's read it is now being turned off their products? FFS, it's making me want to burn my (fully functional) ASUS motherboard.

Then fuck ASUS. They've lost me as a customer, as well as my customers as customers, for life.

I think I remember seeing your thread dude. I stopped posting on their forums long ago for a similar reason and experience. I'd stop short of calling their members shills, but only that short. Gigabyte usually makes the best all-around cooler and is aces in my book. Quieter than Twin Frozr, and...

bump for rare Canadian seller. I'd jump on the 680 but I can't go blower anymore :(

It'll come standard with 2GB; 4GB is the expanded memory version for an extra charge, just like how they have 4GB 670/680 and 3GB 660/660Ti. First, it won't be a huge benefit; that's what everyone here is more or less telling you when they say you'll run out of GPU power sooner than VRAM. That...

Although I agree with the general principle, I think the timing window is an issue. Certainly, they're selling 2GB cards now because we don't really need more at this very moment, and, in the odd cases that we might have needed more, specific driver instructions probably account for those...

Unfortunately, you're not getting much more than a sidegrade if $190 is your budget. Personally, I would make an even trade or take a $20 loss for a 7850 over a 480 just to not hear that loud abomination of a card. If you can wait for 660tis to drop in price, it would be like making a 480 to...

ASUS needs to get their shit together. I've been using them for a lot of things a long time because of trust in their quality, but reports of how their video cards have been shoddy this gen, plus a P67 motherboard I had to RMA in the past year are seriously making me reconsider their standing...

Damn straight. Out of spite, most of the time these days I actually avoid the product that has a mail-in rebate offered on it. It's a reprehensible practice and I won't support it.

Posting drunk is pretty fun sometimes

Some information on your computer setup will be necessary before people can give you any meaningful advice (what graphics card, which programs/games, etc.) For starters, I'd venture a guess that sjince you refer to a "graphics card," singular, what you have is not microstutter (which refers to...

This. Right now retailers and selling owners are in a rush to get as much as they can for their 670s before 760 officially comes out at $299. If one can wait the few weeks, one ought to.

You got 3 1440p monitors and seemingly no room or desire to compromise. Sorry, but you're in an expensive corner no matter when you upgrade.

I noticed this as well, but I didn't get to test for when or why this happens as I only briefly had the SLI setup. I think you had to outright disable SLI mode in the nVidia Control Panel to fully get the cards to work independently of the other. Sorry if that's not helpful.

Nothing new or demanding is coming out for PC in the next year anyway. Isn't that how often a lot of us upgrade?

Windforce is Gigabyte...

I've had something similar happen to me when I had SLI. Switching to, and between, AFR settings in the nVidia Control Panel resolved the issues for me. Also, if you're using Afterburner/PrecisionX, and "Synchronize settings for similar graphics processors" is checked, try turning it off. That...