7970 Severe degradation

In little under a month my 7970m has seemingly all but died, after 4 crashes in 2 days (none since 2-weeks ago) my card has had an increasingly difficult time running games. Whereas before I was not really seeing any utilization problems now it plagues me in almost any game I play, BF3 ranges from 20-60% and Skyrim hovers at 50%. The only variable that has remained constant since I received the laptop have been my temperatures, which have stayed the same hovering in the mid 70's.

I don't know what else to say other than a big "......", I'm unable to return the product now since it's well past the 30-day return...........I feel like I have been severely ripped off.The sad part is I was such a big defender of AMD, they could really have won this series by a landslide but instead chose to "take the money and run" so to speak.

This will definitely be my last AMD product and given Sager's poor response to the issues I don't believe I will be buying from them anymore either.

 

if its just a little under a month why are u well over the 30day return at the same time?

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Could this be posted in the survey thread?

 

It was working pretty well for the first month, though I hadn't really put it through a whole lot of testing as I was using it mostly for work school, mostly just benchmarks and a few hours of BF3 here there. I suppose maybe it's my fault for assuming I had a working product though



Also, if a mod wants they can move this post to the survey thread

 

plz post by urself this issue in the survey post, thx in advance.

 

lucky me i have a 90 day warranty on my card. also, the minute i got it i did a week of nonstop stress testing and three days of intense gaming (network session with buddies of mine). so far so good!

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Does the 30 days really mean anything? If you have a dud card, you should be able to change it.

 

I actually managed to break my GTX680M and using the warranty of it right now But man it takes long.

 

You can get it fixed under warranty if the card is faulty, you just can't get a refund - that's all the 30 day period is.

 

What did you do to it?

 

Agreed. Just request an RMA from your reseller/vendor.

 

I think he kept messing with overvolted VBIOS' on it..

 

OCed to death

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hackness got a bad GTX 680M , he said the issue was a bad solder job on some part

 

Yes confirmed by the seller due to bad solder job, seller told me the fixing at clevo should be done this week so next week I should be receiving it back.

 

What drivers are you using?? are you sure it is not something you did? I a few problems when I was messing with the drivers. The GPU utilization dropped extremely when I installed the modded drivers. I then formatted and installed the stock drivers and now it works fine. Yes the GPU utilization does fluctuate a bit in the 80-90 region in Crysis but I think that is due to the drivers. Have you tried completely re installing all ur drivers?

 

Everything is stock, I tend not to mess with stuff on laptops since OCing anything on them is not conducive to their longevity. Perhaps I am just noticing it now that I am actually playing games a lot more than I was when I first received it. I don't believe the card is faulty outside of not having any official drivers, it's probably that I am just realizing the extent of the enduro issue in some places.

 

I played Witcher II on 1920x1080 with Ultra. I turned off Ubersampling and depth of field and got 30-40 fps. The game play was very comfortable. But then I messed up trying different drivers and the performance dropped greatly. I started getting 15-20 fps and I got pissed. Tried everything but nothing worked. The drivers are too sensitive I think. SO I formatted my system, installed all the stock drivers from the CD though express install. I did not want to do anything manually. And then voila!!! Crysis works good at 1920x1080 very high with Vsync Off. Playing Assassins Creed Brotherhood which is a cake walk with 60 fps solid with everything maxed out. Also just installed Max Payne 3 which with everything maxed out except MSAA. MSAA severely degrades performance. SO I would suggest you to back up your data and go for a full format and stock express drivers install. Then try out Witcher II. That in my opinion is the most taxing game. I havent tried BF3 but I started Skyrim and got 60 fps after overclocking previously. Havent tried if after the full format.

 

It seems that the general rule of thumb for computer is highly applicable here: If it's working, don't fix it.

Man, the drivers on those AMD cards sure are volatile..