NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX Lockup Issue Resolved
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 04/11/2006 05:14 PM [ Print | 2 comment(s) ] · 3574 views
NVIDIA had an issue on their hands with their flagship 7900 GTX retail cards consistently freezing and locking -- we finally have the answer and NVIDIA's response.
If you happened to have purchased one of the first 7900 GTX video cards that came overclocked out of the box, or if you have simply seen the many threads in different forums such as this one in our forum, you might have heard about some random freezing and lockup issues.
By our own testing, and with the help of many different users who contributed additional information, the freeze up issue was confirmed by me and many others. Basically, a game or benchmark would ?freeze? for a time between 10 and 60 seconds, then ?unfreeze? and return to normal playing conditions. It was an odd issue that I hadn?t really seen before and we spent time with new drivers, new power supplies and new motherboards to try and fix it.
PC Perspective
If you happened to have purchased one of the first 7900 GTX video cards that came overclocked out of the box, or if you have simply seen the many threads in different forums such as this one in our forum, you might have heard about some random freezing and lockup issues.
By our own testing, and with the help of many different users who contributed additional information, the freeze up issue was confirmed by me and many others. Basically, a game or benchmark would ?freeze? for a time between 10 and 60 seconds, then ?unfreeze? and return to normal playing conditions. It was an odd issue that I hadn?t really seen before and we spent time with new drivers, new power supplies and new motherboards to try and fix it.
PC Perspective
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The_GURU Unregistered |
#64389 Posted on: 04/11/2006 07:56 PM
I certainly hope no one blames Nvidia for this as it is obviously not their fault. They made a chip that runs at their advertised speeds. If someone wants to bin them and clock them accordingly, that's great, but test the damn thing. The vendors should be ashamed of selling something untested as much as those GTXs and I think it has ruined their reputations with those specific people that had trouble. I guess it'll be a lesson for them (we'll still have to see if they f*** up again, b/c we all know corp. ppl aren't too bright all around) |
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BetrayerX Unregistered |
#64392 Posted on: 04/11/2006 11:56 PM
They are to blame, stop the damage control crap. When people buys a card or a CPU and finds out they have some extra speed left out that they can overclock it, it is because the manufacturers test the hardware to check what is the best possible speed in which the hardware can perform with 100% stability in any worst case scenario that you might like to think. When a company overclocks it's hardware just to say "hey, we are the fastest", you can rest assured this kind of problems can and will occur. To be fair to NVidia, this is not new. I remember 3dfx cards, specially the banshee, which had the same problems, Cyryx and AMDs of old were not able to cope with heat for long periods of time. More recently, if you look at the x1800s they came out with theXL version instead of the XT (which came a month or 2 later) and the reason for that is because their bins were not good enough for such (XT) speeds. It's simply not easy to push the envelope everytime you brng out a new product to the market. Sometimes a simple solution as to install an aftermarket cooler fix this situation, sadly this voids warranty leaving the customer with no option but to RMA. |
