Bad 7950?

[perkynips]

So you tell me, is my 7950 bad... below is a list of *** gone wrong since I installed it at default settings.

- Random screen freezes to black screen with a system beep (if it recovers) AMD display driver stopped responding

- Random screen freezes to black screen - to system crash BSOD - Graphic display driver clock interval error

- Artifacting all over the place

- youtube videos at fullscreen appear green with barely top of the screen normal and blocky. If I rewind the video it goes away.

- *this part I know is an ATI thing* but when I hit play on youtube videos I get screen flickers....

- sometimes videos and gaming seems juddery like it has really bad refresh rates.

 

[georgew91]

have you another card to test in your build? and is the psu big enough? and what are the temps?

 

[nforce4max]

This is why I wait several months before adopting the latest generation. Just return this card for another or a refund. Sounds like a very unstable card and if your psu isn't good either that could be the cause.

 

[perkynips]

sorry system specs.

Intel Core i7 960 OC 4GHZ
Corsair Dominator Ram 12GB
AMD Radeon 7950 Gigabyte Version
150GB Gskill Pheonix SSD
1TB HDD
1 x OCZ StealthXStream OCZ700SXS 700W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply

It's not the PSU I went from a Radeon 5970 to the 7950 with no previous problems.

the 7950 uses less Watts then my 5970

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Id return it preferably for a refund.