I got the card just before christmas I didn't buy it(put half toward it) and they're at least a 2 hour drive away atm. Then I hadn't really got to test it much since because I had a lot of work. But I've been getting really anxious about returning this because I've heard how poor sapphire's RMA is in the UK, with waits up to 60 days and am worried about being too late to return it to amazon who it was bought from.
At first I noticed the z-fighting on the mountains in Skyrim and other 7970 owners seemed to get them but my skyrim had fuzzy foliage, general flashing textures and lines inside of shadows. I tried a few recommended settings in CCC and changing of prefernce.ini etc but couldn't get anything to work. Then I started noticing it in games that it wasn't occuring on before. Crysis 2, Planetside 2, and Crysis.
It's hard to tell exactly from the video as youtube seems to have lowered the quality but it was quite bad.
[Crysis 2 flickering landscape] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xvrNVUAWrQ
[Skyrim various] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5T2pTN-CKk
[Skyrim artifacts] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqe3NliYAA
[Planetside flickering foliage/shadows] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EePcXkBORNo
[Heaven DX11 Benchmark flickering/torn shadows etc] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a5V2ekQgQs
The HDMI port seems a little dodgy too. With the slightest of a wiggle my fills up with red bars across it.
There were also grey bars that popped up occasionally. I thought it was to do with the HDMI cable being knocked my the mouses but I wasn't sure.
Then last of all there's quite a audible coil whine which I read up on, at least until you can get the game ambience to go over it.
Here's my specs:
GPU: sapphire amd hd 7970 vapor-x ghz edition(stock) CPU: I5 3570K at 3.4ghz(stock) Ram: 8gb kingston hyper x 1866 HDD: 2x 1tb seagate 7200rpm PSU: 650w Antec Truepower Mobo: Msi z77a-g43 Case: Zalman z-11 plus OS: Win8 pro 64bit
On the current beta 12.11 drivers as I tried to fix the skyrim issue, but everything else still seemed fine until now for no apparent reason.
So any ideas, should I return my HD 7970? Has anyone had experience returning graphics cards to amazon.co.uk?
Thanks a lot.
**Edit**
Was trying to downgrade my drivers with driversweeper but must of deleted something important as it BSOD on startup, had to system restore to last night.
At first I noticed the z-fighting on the mountains in Skyrim and other 7970 owners seemed to get them but my skyrim had fuzzy foliage, general flashing textures and lines inside of shadows. I tried a few recommended settings in CCC and changing of prefernce.ini etc but couldn't get anything to work. Then I started noticing it in games that it wasn't occuring on before. Crysis 2, Planetside 2, and Crysis.
It's hard to tell exactly from the video as youtube seems to have lowered the quality but it was quite bad.
[Crysis 2 flickering landscape] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xvrNVUAWrQ
[Skyrim various] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5T2pTN-CKk
[Skyrim artifacts] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSqe3NliYAA
[Planetside flickering foliage/shadows] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EePcXkBORNo
[Heaven DX11 Benchmark flickering/torn shadows etc] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a5V2ekQgQs
The HDMI port seems a little dodgy too. With the slightest of a wiggle my fills up with red bars across it.
There were also grey bars that popped up occasionally. I thought it was to do with the HDMI cable being knocked my the mouses but I wasn't sure.
Then last of all there's quite a audible coil whine which I read up on, at least until you can get the game ambience to go over it.
Here's my specs:
GPU: sapphire amd hd 7970 vapor-x ghz edition(stock) CPU: I5 3570K at 3.4ghz(stock) Ram: 8gb kingston hyper x 1866 HDD: 2x 1tb seagate 7200rpm PSU: 650w Antec Truepower Mobo: Msi z77a-g43 Case: Zalman z-11 plus OS: Win8 pro 64bit
On the current beta 12.11 drivers as I tried to fix the skyrim issue, but everything else still seemed fine until now for no apparent reason.
So any ideas, should I return my HD 7970? Has anyone had experience returning graphics cards to amazon.co.uk?
Thanks a lot.
**Edit**
Was trying to downgrade my drivers with driversweeper but must of deleted something important as it BSOD on startup, had to system restore to last night.