Intressant läsning för er som har 7900-kort eller tänker köpa. Speciellt de som är fabriksöverklockade. Det har varit mycket diskussioner om överklockningspotentialen för 7900-serien på forumet. Den här artikeln visar på problem hos ett flertal tillverkare redan vid relativt måttlig överklockning.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTA2OSwxLCxoZW...
Bl a BFG har detta att säga:
"We spoke with Scott Herkelman over at BFGTech, who just happens to be a gamer himself as well as part owner of the company. Asking if they had seen RMAs on the rise on the 7900 series he explained that the return rate had moved up somewhere between 3% to 5% on those cards. Obviously after that statement we wanted to know what they saw as the problem. The first thing he mentioned was that BFGTech is seeing some "bugginess in the drivers" that he thought was impacting the returns. He also went on to say that, “almost all the cards we get back work.” Scott thought that cooling was an issue in that many folks were putting these cards into cases that were not cooled properly for such a large heat load to be dumped inside."
XFX:
"At XFX we spoke primarily with Ryan Dumas, XFX Technical Marketing Manager.
Asking if XFX had seen any unusual returns on the cards, they did think that there had been a wave in the last two weeks or so, but only contributed for a 0.5% rise in overall RMAs. They were sure that they had seen an influx of 7900 series problems and were “working very closely with NVIDIA” to make sure the problems got solved. They did explain that they too, like BFGTech had not changed testing or qualifying procedures for overclocked video cards."
Slutligen konstaterar artikelförfattaren:
"Lastly, I would not let this scare me away from buying an overclocked GeForce 7900 series video card as all the players are very aware something is going on with the cards and trying their best to make sure the problem is solved. Then again, there does seem to be certain level of risk with buying an overclocked card so a non-overclocked 7900 from a reputable builder might be a smart option."
Mycket mer finns som sagt att läsa via länken ovan.
