werty316
06-02-2006, 06:00 AM
In regards to your most recent article on the 7900GT.
It should be noted that it does not take a week to get a RMA replacement from EVGA. They have instituted a special 7900GT RMA procedure that is complete with Next Day Air Cross Shipping.
In other words, from the day you submit the request, in as little as one or two days you could have a brand new card at your doorstep, and then you send the old card back. It's a seamless as it could be. Unfortunately the other board partners do not offer such a service free of charge.
I don't think the GPU itself is to be blamed. We can blame this on both Nvidia and the EOMs.
NVidia's reference cooler for the 7900GT does not provide proper cooling at very high clock speed. The 7900GTX has the same GPU which does not have this problem since it has a much better cooler.
On the other side, the OEMs are also to blame since they keep selling these crazy overclocked cards with the same reference cooler design. A very bad combination!
From what I've gathered from reading about the issue on the net, it was the inadequate 'reference' cooling solution, that doesn't cool the ram chips, shipping in an overclocked condition, that caused the problem. So you can pin at least some of the blame on the vendors.
Source (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32113)
Sounds like eVGA has the best service with the 7900GT problem.
It should be noted that it does not take a week to get a RMA replacement from EVGA. They have instituted a special 7900GT RMA procedure that is complete with Next Day Air Cross Shipping.
In other words, from the day you submit the request, in as little as one or two days you could have a brand new card at your doorstep, and then you send the old card back. It's a seamless as it could be. Unfortunately the other board partners do not offer such a service free of charge.
I don't think the GPU itself is to be blamed. We can blame this on both Nvidia and the EOMs.
NVidia's reference cooler for the 7900GT does not provide proper cooling at very high clock speed. The 7900GTX has the same GPU which does not have this problem since it has a much better cooler.
On the other side, the OEMs are also to blame since they keep selling these crazy overclocked cards with the same reference cooler design. A very bad combination!
From what I've gathered from reading about the issue on the net, it was the inadequate 'reference' cooling solution, that doesn't cool the ram chips, shipping in an overclocked condition, that caused the problem. So you can pin at least some of the blame on the vendors.
Source (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32113)
Sounds like eVGA has the best service with the 7900GT problem.