My 7970 is defective!

[Arachnotronic]

This sucks

Well...back to usin' the ol' Radeon 5450 as my stand in until Newegg gets me another one...

 

[formulav8]

Whats wrong with it?

 

[djnsmith7]

Care to share the details on what happened?

 

[Joseph F]

10 bucks says that got into an overclocking drag race with Vin Diesel.
"First one to 3GHz wins" xD
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[tweakboy]

Newegg.com does this on purpose.. They ship wrong items or they ship stuff out of date. sometimes you dont even get your stuff. So forget use Chrome or Fox

 

[badb0y]

Newegg.com does this on purpose.. They ship wrong items or they ship stuff out of date. sometimes you dont even get your stuff. So forget use Chrome or Fox

Posting in a tweakboy thread.

What happened to your card?

 

[BD231]

Wow ... another dead 7970 on anandtech, kewl .

Where's that guy that was saying someone was bound to get a defective card?? They're popin up suspiciously fast if you ask me. I didn't see any reviewers getting defective cards though, did anyone else?

 

[blackened23]

Newegg.com does this on purpose.. They ship wrong items or they ship stuff out of date. sometimes you dont even get your stuff. So forget use Chrome or Fox

You forgot the GL, reported.

 

[RavenSEAL]

10 bucks says that got into an overclocking drag race with Vin Diesel.
"First one to 3GHz wins" xD
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Ahhh, but it was funny though! :awe:

 

[Arachnotronic]

The card made a "whine" that WASN'T the fan whenever I ran 3D apps. Also, some older OpenGL games (RTCW, Quake 3) would artifact like crazy at stock.

I REALLY hope the 'egg can get me a replacement. If I just get a refund, then...well, crap, I'm out of a card and stuck using this 5450 for a while. There's nothing else out worth dropping $550 on atm, and I explicitly sold my 580 to get this 7970...*grumble*

Well, hey. Time to revisit me some DOOM!

 

[nanaki333]

you running the latest BIOS? my mobo wouldn't work properly until i updated my BIOS. unfortunately, after i updated my BIOS, i wasn't able to reinstall windows on a raid array. windows setup didn't detect any drives, even if i loaded raid drivers.

but yeah... the card would boot up and go to windows, but i got random freezes, and the second 7970 was only displaying every other reboot. after the BIOS update, i haven't had a problem. try it in your other A8 machine? just a thought

 

[-Slacker-]

The card made a "whine" that WASN'T the fan whenever I ran 3D apps. Also, some older OpenGL games (RTCW, Quake 3) would artifact like crazy at stock.

I REALLY hope the 'egg can get me a replacement. If I just get a refund, then...well, crap, I'm out of a card and stuck using this 5450 for a while. There's nothing else out worth dropping $550 on atm, and I explicitly sold my 580 to get this 7970...*grumble*

Well, hey. Time to revisit me some DOOM!

I don't see why they wouldn't replace your video card, unless they can somehow obtain proof that you've been ^$%#ing with it, which is unlikely.

 

[Arkadrel]

Im thinking its Coil Whine/noise.

The induction coils on your graphics card may also be causing your noise problem. These units, consisting of coils of tightly wrapped wire, may vibrate slightly under heavy load and produce a whining noise. Normally, the sound they make is too quiet to hear over other noise in the case, but loose wiring or components may enhance the vibration and make the noise loud enough to be annoying. Coil whine is not necessarily a symptom of an impending hardware failure, but if a new card is producing unexplained noises, take the opportunity to return it for replacement or repair, just to be safe.

^ you might just have gotten the unlucky 1 out of 1,000,000, where the component wasnt attacted perfectly or, the component had a small fault. The hardware could run for years and still fuction fine... however if the noise is annouying (most likely why your here on the forums) you should RMA the card.

These coils, which may act as inductors or transformers, have a certain resonant frequency when coupled with the rest of the electric circuit, as well as a resonance at which it will tend to physically vibrate.

As the wire that makes up the coil passes a variable current, a small amount of electrical oscillation occurs, creating a small magnetic field. Normally this magnetic field simply works to establish the inductance of the coil. However, this magnetic field can also cause the coil itself to physically vibrate. As the coil vibrates physically, it moves through a variable magnetic field, and feeds its resonance back into the system. This can produce signal interference in the circuit and an audible hum as the coil vibrates.

 

[Arachnotronic]

I mean, all the 7970s are out of stock, so that's why I don't think I'll be able to get a replacement...

 

[blackened23]

I mean, all the 7970s are out of stock, so that's why I don't think I'll be able to get a replacement...

I think I saw a few in stock at amazon.com + tigerdirect, which you can get free shipping via amazon prime.

This could work if you're still in the return/refund window.

 

[Phynaz]

nm

 

[Despoiler]

Coil whine isn't really defect. My Gigabyte mobo whines when starting bit miners on both cards and ever so slightly when not under load. Under load it is quiet. My Asus Crosshair would coil whine on boot, but the issue appeared and disappeared about every other BIOS version they released.

 

[nitromullet]

I RMA'ed mine. It was flickering on the desktop for no apparent reason. Newegg waived the restocking fee per my request, so I went ahead and took a refund instead of a replacement.

Not really sure what I'm going to do at this point. Maybe wait for the 7950 or pick an EVGA GTX 560Ti 448 Core Classified for $300 and hope NVIDIA launches something within 90 days so I can step-up. Or perhaps pick up something used, and see how this generation shakes out a bit and some of the customer cooler cards to show up.

 

[mak360]

My brother ordered a GTX580 and i just got him to cancel the order and wait for the HD7950 or HD7970.

Myself, i probably go with HD7950 under water (Building new system soon), Want to see what Trinity brings before i commit to CPU though.

EDIT: Newegg, HD7970 In stock

PowerColor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131452http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131452
XFX http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150585
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131452