Man of Honour
I've been putting up with this for a couple of months now, hoping for a fix. I've finally got some time off work and I'm hoping to get it sorted out.
I bought the above card from OcUK on the 24th of December. It works fine, but the fan speed is set at 100% all of the time. 7 different drivers - no change. Clean installation of WinXP on a spare HDD - no change. Rivatuner and a couple of similar programs - no change.
I have come to think that this particular model does not have fan speed control at all. The fan and the LEDs are powered from the same power header on the card, over the same wires. The LEDs require a constant 12V. So how could the fan speed be varied?
I should have bought a non-LED version, but (a) OcUK didn't stock a non-LED Extreme version when I bought mine and (b) I didn't know there was a problem then.
I phoned OcUK support today and OcUK will replace the card, no problem. However, they'll only replace it with another XFX 7800GT Extreme LED Edition.
So...two questions:
i) Are all XFX 7800GT Extreme LED Editions the UDER or UDE7 models? Or is there a UDF7 model of this card? UDF7 cards seems to work as specified, with a few exceptions.
ii) Is there such a thing as an XFX 7800GT Extreme LED Edition with fan speed control? In other words, might I get lucky if I do an RMA through OcUK?
I bought the above card from OcUK on the 24th of December. It works fine, but the fan speed is set at 100% all of the time. 7 different drivers - no change. Clean installation of WinXP on a spare HDD - no change. Rivatuner and a couple of similar programs - no change.
I have come to think that this particular model does not have fan speed control at all. The fan and the LEDs are powered from the same power header on the card, over the same wires. The LEDs require a constant 12V. So how could the fan speed be varied?
I should have bought a non-LED version, but (a) OcUK didn't stock a non-LED Extreme version when I bought mine and (b) I didn't know there was a problem then.
I phoned OcUK support today and OcUK will replace the card, no problem. However, they'll only replace it with another XFX 7800GT Extreme LED Edition.
So...two questions:
i) Are all XFX 7800GT Extreme LED Editions the UDER or UDE7 models? Or is there a UDF7 model of this card? UDF7 cards seems to work as specified, with a few exceptions.
ii) Is there such a thing as an XFX 7800GT Extreme LED Edition with fan speed control? In other words, might I get lucky if I do an RMA through OcUK?