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Had to reformat/reinstall the other weekend... RAID 1 array degraded (classic sucky nForce 4 RAID controller scenario basically) and I ended up setting them back up as two seperate SATA drives. Since then, my boot from POST to welcome screen has increased from around 30 seconds to closer to...

Short answer - absolutely. Longer answer - RMA the card, brook no BS about the card not being faulty, eventually you will get a later revision version that works. But it may take two or three goes.

Best money I ever spent on a GPU was £18 + VAT on the nvidia 6200 LE that has seen me through multiple 7900 GTX RMAs over the past three months :)

Not for real-world gaming: http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTEwOCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA== FX62 and top of the line Conroe deliver basically identical performance...

Stock GTX will show 800 for the memory (1600 effective due to DDR2), this is a quirk of how 7900 series frequencies are displayed.

There is an argument that PEG link mode (an ASUS 'feature') could cause problems, but mine was disabled from the outset... and my A8N-E hardly qualifies as the 'latest' :) This is a hardware fault alright - with the graphics card.

An expert speaks... lol I have had two borked 7900GTXs in the space of two months. Different brands, different BIOSes. Identical symptoms: borked. One vanilla, one factory overclocked. Admittedly the BFG OC was borked straight away, the other took a couple of weeks to go bad. I've gone...

I was told X3: Reunion rolling demo was used as it would expose any problems. It didn't on my faulty card.

I believe it is standard three years. HOWEVER, Gainward will only address warranty issues if you purchased the card direct from their online store. If it was purchased from a retailer, their new warranty terms stipulate that it is the retailer's responsibility to make good on any problems...

Got a video camera... you should try and film the problem. Without wishing to sound like Mary Whitehouse, have you tried writing a polite but firm letter to the man at the top?

I'm going to need it - by the time I get a working card, we'll be on DirectX 11. I'm sorry you've yet to get your card sorted - are they still saying it isn't faulty?

An update - just loaded up Quake 4, first game I've tried with my new BFG 7900GTX OC. *Immediate* result: tearing, artifacts, weird flickering. Quitting the game prompted the classic 'screen flicking on and off' scenario, coupled with desktop corruption and degraded system responsiveness...

Don't you need a SLI mobo for these to work, even though they are a single slot design? Something to do with the mobos ability to split the PCI-E bus... 7800GTX is an underwhelming step up from a 6800, especially in games with HDR... 7900GTX much better, but there are many dodgy ones around.

I would like to think resellers in general have come to recognise this is not a 'normal' problem that can be exposed by tried and trusted methods, and so are now testing the cards more rigorously. Have faith, RMA it (you don't have any other choice), and if not satisfied pursue your complaint...

Yes, but something of a saga... RMA'd the card, was tested and sent back as not faulty. This was after i had done *thorough* testing to ensure it was faulty. I was not happy with speed with which card was turned round (in and out in a matter of hours, if that) but when I called I was assured the...

Got a 7900 series card? Could well be that.

13A fuse in the plug on my new Tagan Easycon 580W...

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Get the Viewsonic now, you won't be sorry. Then SLI the GT, that will do you for gaming in native resolution for 99% of games. Oblivion etc might be harder to run maxed out, but then most uber rigs struggle with it.

Just got one of these, came out of the box with the 12V rail(s) set to Combined, so left it like that. I understand this is likely to give me more headroom when system is under heavy load (not going to overload one rail). Conversely, it is argued splitting the rails would ensure greater...