GeForce 7900 Inferno – Burn Baby Burn

Brawler · 27th May 2006

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/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA==

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...10#post1458110

It seems quite a few 7900gt's and 7900gtx's giving these problems even some stock ones

**Megnut3025** · 27th May 2006

Interesting... thanks for that Brawler!!

Alluvium · 27th May 2006

lolies yeah i dont like them overclocks dumbass companies stick on em
my geforce 4 , (ti ) cant rember number, was high end tho...

from chainteck .... the fan on the main heat sink cept getting so hot it would fry and stop working, then , one day i heard a THUNK , then a THUNK ...

i thought that one of my hdds had fallen off the mounts... No the 2 secondary heatsinks.... FELL OFF ... the glue melted away ,,,

anyway a mate is know useing it in his pc, he strapped 2 HUGE (those case side fans) on to it, although it still has issues

**rainy** · 27th May 2006

Usually the vendors of this kind of hardware uissue a warranty for their overclockings. Are these cases covered?

Brawler · 28th May 2006

Yeah they are.

{lostmarble} · 24th June 2006

I just ordered one of these cards, ASUS en7900GT .
Hopefully it does not turn into a expensive chunk of plastic and sillicone...

**Ruslan74** · 24th June 2006

I think ASUS are a more reliant company than the one's listed above.

but its worrying that such cards pass stress tests at the factory grounds and then are bound for sale... tsk tsk