In the last few months i started noticing that even watching videos at 720p seems to be a challenge at times for my radeon 7950, despite knowing 1080p was effortless in the past. In games occasionally i experienced a slowdown that was fixed on game restart.
Nothing i could identify as a gpu problem. Can't say i played many demanding titles.
3 days ago my computer suddenly showed me a black screen a couple times then decided to freeze. An issue that i believed i narrowed down to windows being stupid and me having to reinstall it.
I was struggling a lot with the reinstall because at times the screen just went black, i thought the usb might be problematic or bios settings or other components, but i started seeing new issues. Namely occasional visual artifacts like slightly off color few lines on screen on an even colored background, even before the windows logo had a chance to appear, sometimes even in bios. I even tried out another windows i had installed on a different hard drive for test and curiosity, and it seemed to work for like half an hour then i got hit by a black screen and a freeze. Next time i was getting screen tears, vertical lines, and big blue and black boxes, and the system froze before i could login, and stayed in this state. Of course windows wasn't installed on this system, but still an extreme reaction.
My system has a i5 3570 but for some reason if i try to use the igpu the bios gives me the processor error code. I ended up putting in my old gtx 750 and i saw no visual glitches, no crashes, and the windows installed as expected.
Funnily enough the igpu of an i3 3220 can run 720p videos without hiccups.
If my system proves to be stable, i will want to get a better video card, maybe 1650 super but i am open to recommendations. Not sure especially with new gen consoles coming out how much longevity that card has, but it could serve me until i earn some cash for a real system.
Is it really worth trying to make this radeon 7950 work? Did i miss something? I spent so much time, and frankly i was already thinking of replacing it.
Nothing i could identify as a gpu problem. Can't say i played many demanding titles.
3 days ago my computer suddenly showed me a black screen a couple times then decided to freeze. An issue that i believed i narrowed down to windows being stupid and me having to reinstall it.
I was struggling a lot with the reinstall because at times the screen just went black, i thought the usb might be problematic or bios settings or other components, but i started seeing new issues. Namely occasional visual artifacts like slightly off color few lines on screen on an even colored background, even before the windows logo had a chance to appear, sometimes even in bios. I even tried out another windows i had installed on a different hard drive for test and curiosity, and it seemed to work for like half an hour then i got hit by a black screen and a freeze. Next time i was getting screen tears, vertical lines, and big blue and black boxes, and the system froze before i could login, and stayed in this state. Of course windows wasn't installed on this system, but still an extreme reaction.
My system has a i5 3570 but for some reason if i try to use the igpu the bios gives me the processor error code. I ended up putting in my old gtx 750 and i saw no visual glitches, no crashes, and the windows installed as expected.
Funnily enough the igpu of an i3 3220 can run 720p videos without hiccups.
If my system proves to be stable, i will want to get a better video card, maybe 1650 super but i am open to recommendations. Not sure especially with new gen consoles coming out how much longevity that card has, but it could serve me until i earn some cash for a real system.
Is it really worth trying to make this radeon 7950 work? Did i miss something? I spent so much time, and frankly i was already thinking of replacing it.
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