GeForce 7900 Inferno – Burn Baby Burn

[Brian]

GeForce 7900 Inferno – Burn Baby Burn (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/10124/GeForce+7900+Inferno+Burn+Baby+Burn/)

"Let it be known that all parties involved, know that there is "an issue" with overclocked GeForce 7900 video cards and they are very concerned with it. None of the companies involved are trying to side step the problem although sometimes reaction time may be seen as slow by the community.

NVIDIA have specifically pointed a finger to the cause of the issues being associated with the overclocking settings that BFGTech, EVGA, and XFX use. NVIDIA firmly stands behind their stock core and memory clock specifications for the 7900 series and tell us that they are not seeing any unusual problems with 7900 series video cards that are not overclocked. A little over a month ago, PCPer.com discussed the issue as being the vertex shader unit being clocked too high and NVIDIA stood behind that site on its conclusions."

Read full story here (http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA2OSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==)

[Kurtis]

Interesting... I didn't realize people were having problems with the cards. Although, I can't say I am terribly surprised since these companies are just overclocking these things with the stock coolers - if they're doing any overclocking they should really be putting better coolers on these cards.

[Kalo]

Wonder if this is the blame game or if Nvidia isn't actually the culprit in this case. Irregardless they'll get a bad mark for it, being the manufacturer. It's sad really if that's the case. :(

[Kurtis]

It clearly isn't NVIDIA's fault. These problems aren't arriving with cards at reference clock speeds - it's happening with the manufacturer overclocked cards from the likes of BFG, EVGA, and XFX. Apparently it's happening more with EVGA and XFX because their OC version is clocked a little higher than BFG's.

The point I was trying to make is that the manufacturers would be smarter to overclock the cards AND install a better cooling solution for the sake of stability. One thing that was brought up in the article is that many people who buy these cards are buying them in SLI, thus compounding the problem of heat dissipation on these powerful cards. Plus, if someone has poor cooling in their case, that just make the problem much worse.

One solution is... if you really want high-end stuff and you're a hardcore enthusiast you could get the reference speed cards, clean up your case and make sure it's thermally efficient, route your cables nicely, etc... then you can overclock yourself to whatever you find to be stable.

[Kalo]

One solution is... if you really want high-end stuff and you're a hardcore enthusiast you could get the reference speed cards, clean up your case and make sure it's thermally efficient, route your cables nicely, etc... then you can overclock yourself to whatever you find to be stable.
Self OCing for the win! Definitely solves the problem. I see what you mean now, bad XFX, BFG, & eVGA! :evil: :-p