BF2S Forums To anyone who owns a geforce 7900 GTX

Janus67 wrote:

agwood wrote:

Sapphire is the company that makes all OEM ATI cards.

no, they make good ones, but powercolor and others handle other OEM cards I do believe.

as others have said, I would RMA the card and get a replacement.

OK.. let me clarify...no flames intended..  Sapphire is owned by a company called PC Partner.. I KNOW that ATI uses PC Partner for the bulk of their OEM and Retail Video cards.. Not saying that Powercolor does not make a few for ATI, the MAIN manufacturer is PC Partner.....err... Sapphire.

a little insight into the video card industry...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30386

ok since uve underclocked the card. its a defect. should RMA ASAP, i agree w/ getting x1900xt if u get refund.

EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:

cyborg_ninja-117 wrote:

ok since uve underclocked the card. its a defect. should RMA ASAP, i agree w/ getting x1900xt if u get refund.

XT? XT?!

Outrageous! 


XTX I thank you very much, buying this machine to last a decent while.

get the XT since its 50 bucks cheaper... get a good quiet cooler like the vf900cu from zalman, it would overclockt he xt to beyond xt speeds.

My main reason for a new heatsink for ur vga card is that the stock one on the xtx are really noisy. doesnt really take that long to remove and add a new one (20 min for new user) ive did it b4 w/ out instructions if a 15 yr old like me can do it, so can u

agwood wrote:

Janus67 wrote:

agwood wrote:

Sapphire is the company that makes all OEM ATI cards.

no, they make good ones, but powercolor and others handle other OEM cards I do believe.

as others have said, I would RMA the card and get a replacement.

OK.. let me clarify...no flames intended..  Sapphire is owned by a company called PC Partner.. I KNOW that ATI uses PC Partner for the bulk of their OEM and Retail Video cards.. Not saying that Powercolor does not make a few for ATI, the MAIN manufacturer is PC Partner.....err... Sapphire.

a little insight into the video card industry...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30386

thanks for fixing my post.  I will read that when I get back, although I am a little leary of reading inquirer posts.

Just talked with an ebuyer guy on the phone who submitted an RMA for me, he seemed to be ok with a refund.

Now needing to wait for it to be accepted, then i'll add a note to the RMA to point to the images.

I've ordered the Sapphire X1900XTX, set it to next day delivery.

Got my X1900XTX sitting next to me, once I get home i'll plug it in etc. 

The 7900 has now been sent back to ebuyer, pity I couldn't get another 7900GTX but ebuyer had none in stock.

I have 2 eVGA 7900GTXs in SLI and I've never had those problems. At stock I've never even seen them come close to red line temps either. Try some new drivers (DNA maybe) and if that doesn't work then RMA them suckers.

[CSG*] Bane_The_Destroyer wrote:

Lol-I just read the rest.

It's gotta be your motherboard homie. Did you rough up your PCI-E slots early on? Are your IRQs(?) or whatever set up correctly? What board are you currently using?

EDIT: LOL... wait a tick.. did you just plug the ATI into your nvidia mobo?!

ATI cards work fine in nforce motherboards, my previous system was an nforce2 chipset and a Radeon 9800 Pro.
Worked flawlessly.

This slight flickering occurs even with the default windows display driver. (the crappy slow one)
Although the weird corrupt display that appears on bootup doesn't display.

EvilMonkeySlayer wrote:

ATI cards work fine in nforce motherboards, my previous system was an nforce2 chipset and a Radeon 9800 Pro.
Worked flawlessly.

Rgr on the working part-it's just amusing to me-lol. I can only imagine it would run cleaner on a board made more so for it. That crazy boot screen could just be the ATI and the nvidia trying to understand what's going on. I doubt it's anything to worry about. Just make sure to keep an eye on that fan-they've been known to go dead at random.

i got a Powercolor x1900xt 512mb off of newegg...but they dont ship to GB. i love my x1900...it runs hot, but doenst overheat, and the cooling fan is a fucking beast! i get maxed out FPS (100.0/10) in BF2 with everything set on ultra-high (4 rather than 3 in video.con file). I love it! if you are someone that upgrades every 6 months, get this card. it will last you 1-1.5 years. i say this because NONE of the cards on the market support Direct X 10, which will be released in the 1st service pack to windows vista, and will be included in games directly after that release (developers allready have copies of DX10).

EDIT: im running mine with Catalyst 6.4..overclocked to 637 core and 744 mem...runs like a pro.

W_O

Last edited by [TUF]Whiskey_Oktober (2006-05-03 13:25:22)

Here's a new update.

I've decided to.. dun dun duuuuun..

RMA the X1900XTX, getting a refund.

I've seperately ordered a Powercolor  X1900XTX, hopefully these flickering display problems don't happen with this card.

If they do then i'll RMA that too.

How many people can say they've RMA'd three of the best graphics cards on the market?

1. BFG 512MB GeForce 7900GTX (artifacts ingame, faulty)
2. Sapphire 512MB X1900XTX (annoying flickering using the 6.3 and 6.4 Catalyst drivers)
3. Powercolor 512MB X1900XTX (not received this yet, set it to next day delivery.. if the same issue happens i'll probably go back to a 7900GTX)

Souljah wrote:

it also be your psu. in my old system i had a 6600gtoc in with a antec 430 watt psu and i use to get those artifacts in bf2. the same as you have with all those lines and stuff. bought a new case for my new system ive built and it came with a orion 400 watt psu. swapped psu and all the artifacts went away. dunno if thats your problem but if you have an extra psu try swapping it out and see what happens. good luck on getting those flickerings to stop.

The flickering only occurs if I use the 6.3 or 6.4 drivers. If I use the 6.2 drivers there is no flickering.
My PSU is an Antec TruePower II 550W.

I phoned up ebuyer a short bit ago and had a chat, they seemed okay about me rma'ing this for a refund.


There is one thing i've always found that nvidia has over ATI, they absolutely bitch slap ATI when it comes to drivers. Had driver problems on my old 9800 too.

Apart from the artifacts ingame (which was a hardware issue) the drivers for the 7900 were flawless. Plus I don't particularly like Catalyst Control Center.