Possible problem with 7900GT

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Gatticus

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I bought an eVGA 7900GT KO a few days ago and I've ran the ATI Tool artifact tester on it and ran a few games with no problems. Even ran Serious Sam demo for quite some time with no problems. I then ran 3DMark06 and Deep Freeze shows some artifacting at the very end but the test completes without crashing and I get a final scopre. Also, if I go to the Change Overclocking Configuration in the Nvidia control panel and run the Find Optimal overclocking it always shuts off my monitor. Should I return it to eVGA?
 
Any artifacting at all is a bad thing.

Open up your case and run the deep freeze test over and over for about 8 hours, check back on it to see if there is any artifacting every once in a while. If there isn't any then it's a heat issue and not the graphics card.

However, this problem with artifacting/freezing up in deep freeze is a common malady that I've seen on the forums. I think there is a bios fix or a driver fix but I'm really not sure.

~Adam
 
I think the 7600GT's from evga suffer the same problems. I'm hoping mine doesn't come screwed up (i ordered one). From what I"ve heard, if your screen freezes up for about 15-20 seconds before you run a 3d app or if you start artifacting, you might wnat to RMA. I'd say, for you, change drivers first. if it still happens, i say send to evga, it's not worth the work
 
OK, thx. I'll do some more testing and see how it goes. I can run 3DMark05 with no issues at all, it's just deep freeze in 06 that is doing this.
 
Gatticus said:
OK, thx. I'll do some more testing and see how it goes. I can run 3DMark05 with no issues at all, it's just deep freeze in 06 that is doing this.
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Sometimes that happens to me, sometimes. And its only that test.
 
I just ran some more tests. I installed NGO 84.25 drivers and ran 3DMark06 and it couldn't even complete Deep Freeze. I down clocked the card to stock 7900GT speed and it completed Deep Freeze with no problems. The card goes back. Damn, that's what I get for switching from ATI back to Nvidia. :(
 
yea. 7 series has had some problems. (hope my switch from red to green won't end up like this, lol)
 
One of the problems with rushing a card line to the market like NV did. Problems like this.
 
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