Brawler
27th May 2006, 01:04 AM
It seems that the demon art of vendor overclocking is pushing many GeForce 7900 video cards beyond their abilities and into an early grave.
What seems to be happening the most are problems associated with playing F.E.A.R., Oblivion, or using the 3DMark06 testing suite, but issues are certainly not limited to this. 7900 cards have been artifacting and/or locking up while playing games. This sometimes happens when the card is installed the first day, or it might happen a month later.
NVIDIA have specifically pointed a finger to the cause of the issues being associated with the overclocking settings that BFGTech, EVGA, and XFX use
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA2OSwzLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1458110#post1458110
It seems quite a few 7900gt's and 7900gtx's giving these problems even some stock ones
What seems to be happening the most are problems associated with playing F.E.A.R., Oblivion, or using the 3DMark06 testing suite, but issues are certainly not limited to this. 7900 cards have been artifacting and/or locking up while playing games. This sometimes happens when the card is installed the first day, or it might happen a month later.
NVIDIA have specifically pointed a finger to the cause of the issues being associated with the overclocking settings that BFGTech, EVGA, and XFX use
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA2OSwzLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1458110#post1458110
It seems quite a few 7900gt's and 7900gtx's giving these problems even some stock ones