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cadaveca

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With secondary monitor plugged in, yes, perfectly normal.

to test if card is faulty, do not use OC tools or increase voltage, simply set the GPU clock to 850 MHz, and try there. IF it still fails, then try 800 MHz.


If it does not fail @ 850 MHz, to 800 MHz, then the card is for sure faulty, and needs RMA. IF it crashes, I'd still RMA.


There is NO reason to use voltage adjustments to get stability. My cards work perfectly fine, so should yours.
 

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no i dont have second monitor, first card I complained. and this is the same but the new and begin to manifest the same problem with artifacts
 

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no i dont have second monitor, first card I complained. and this is the same but the new and begin to manifest the same problem with artifacts

try with lowered clocks, say 850 MHz.

I RMA'd one card, would crash on 3d after some time, but was fine with 850 MHz. 7950 stock GPU is 800 MHz; Windforce cards have factory OC, so perhaps a card or two slipped through binning.

very odd that you get 1.1V on load, BTW. I have had no less than 6 of these cards in my possession, all were 0.95V 3D! I installed the other 4 into systems I sold...hopefully this isn't something with the series itself!
 

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850 no help
 

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Can you try to install the VGA to a different slot?


Kind of odd you'd get more than one card with same issues.

make sure no system OC(memory and CPU can affect this), try other slots, try other board, try other PSU, try lower clocks, try in other system. Those are your options. :p


if board has newer BIOS, might want to update that, but I haven't had any issues like that. Still possible I guess though.
 

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yes i try install in to second slot and the same problem
always three artifacts in the image when I turn on the strees kombustor. always 1 sec artifact,2 sec artifact, 3 sec artifact. After these three artifacts are already no more artifacts
 

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could be a problem with Kombuster? It doesn't really present realistic GPU load, as far as I know..

How about other apps?
 

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when i play games same problem artifacts
 
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What kind of artifacts? All 7000 series cards have intermittent "black artifacts" that appear for less than a second afaik. Get them all the time on my 7950 in games like Tribes: Ascend.
 

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What artifacts? Various white, black, purple previous same gpu started to whistle in the finals, when I complained.
 

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so already gpu in 3d applications started to whistle a component on gpu
 

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Sure loud whistling, flickering shadows, artifacts is normal. thank you
 

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but why are they doing coil and whistles with the artifacts
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
Articfacts and coil whine usually have nothing do to with each other. I have coil whine now, with no artifacts in a GPU or two.
 
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Try another card. If you have same problem with another card, PSU may be faulty.

If another card is ok, RMA again
 

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Ok thank you.
Something else. when I take out the gpu and using gpu in the CPU so I have no problem throughout the month.
problems have risen with the connection new hd7950 after 2 days.
 
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Benchmark Scores Faster than yours... I'd bet on it. :)
onboard video doesnt take any power... so that doesnt help us if its the PSU.

What pSU do you have? Can you create your system specs in USER CP?
 

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I created a user cp
 

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there is something?PSU to try something without being destroyed?
 
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