- Aug 27, 2013
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I bit the bullet 2 days ago and bough a 7970 to replace my old nvidia card. Its a very nice card to look at, and did substantially well on benchmarks, but i owned the card for less than 24 hours and realized the mess i had dug myself into.
To start things out the graphics card did not even want to set my desktop to 1080p. It created a black border around the screen which can be fixed in the options but everytime I restarted windows, it reverted back. Even games run through steam do the same thing.
Secondly I had serious in-game issues that consisted of ghosting and horrible lag and it felt like the card was struggling but the benchmark videos i did earlier did show it seems to be working.
I thought it was caused maybe by nvidia old remnants lying around in my hard drive and after 2 hours of cleaning and testing still the same crap. So I figured screw it ill do a fresh install of windows since I have my games stored on an alternate drive.
Another few hours go by, Ive downloaded the latest drivers from the Amd website and im getting the EXACT same result.
I then go to see if it can play one of my old school classics (Total Annihilation) I love and it gave me an error on start up. It was at that point I just had to put it back in the bag and return it.
Today I purchased a brand new 680 (Seller RMA'd a MSI 580 and received a MSI 680 which he put in his system instead and has been waiting to sell it) for $300. Mounting and driver installation took all of 15 minutes and I was back to a properly working desktop again. Played a couple of games that the 7970 was having issues in and everything went fine. Even overclocked it so its basically a 770 now
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Moral of the story,
stick with what you know and are familiar with. Whether it be AMD or Nvidia, enjoy gaming to its fullest with whatever works for you.
To start things out the graphics card did not even want to set my desktop to 1080p. It created a black border around the screen which can be fixed in the options but everytime I restarted windows, it reverted back. Even games run through steam do the same thing.
Secondly I had serious in-game issues that consisted of ghosting and horrible lag and it felt like the card was struggling but the benchmark videos i did earlier did show it seems to be working.
I thought it was caused maybe by nvidia old remnants lying around in my hard drive and after 2 hours of cleaning and testing still the same crap. So I figured screw it ill do a fresh install of windows since I have my games stored on an alternate drive.
Another few hours go by, Ive downloaded the latest drivers from the Amd website and im getting the EXACT same result.
I then go to see if it can play one of my old school classics (Total Annihilation) I love and it gave me an error on start up. It was at that point I just had to put it back in the bag and return it.
Today I purchased a brand new 680 (Seller RMA'd a MSI 580 and received a MSI 680 which he put in his system instead and has been waiting to sell it) for $300. Mounting and driver installation took all of 15 minutes and I was back to a properly working desktop again. Played a couple of games that the 7970 was having issues in and everything went fine. Even overclocked it so its basically a 770 now
.Moral of the story,
stick with what you know and are familiar with. Whether it be AMD or Nvidia, enjoy gaming to its fullest with whatever works for you.
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