I've worked as a computer repair guy for many years, and I've yet to see this problem. I get this on my main monitor, acer 23 inch, random times playing a video on YouTube via Chrome (ironically ones about 7970 tweaks and benchmarks). My 2nd monitor is a 42inch TV on the wall that is also plugged into the card, but everything is fine on that one. I could still move applications to that screen and use it like nothing has ever happened.
-drivers are up to date
I have a brand new sapphire 7970 'OC with Boost' and I LOVE it. Besides this problem, it's a great card. I've overclocked the card to a small 1100 core/1500 mem/1175 vddc/Board power li 20, and it ran stable with heaven/furmark/bf3/crysis3 all on ultra (again, an awesome card).
My main question is: What is it called when your monitor does that? If I had a better search term for that issue I could find a solution on my own. Feel free to give any solutions and/or reasons why it does that. I feel like I just lost the video card lottery and should leave my card at stock.
-side note: The only other instability I've had with this card was that sometimes my horloger clock app that runs on my TV monitor crashes sometimes while running a game, which minimizes my game. Is having my 42inch tv plugged into my card a bad thing? Should I plug it into my motherboard? Should I put in an old 6850 and use that to run my tv monitor?
Side question #451: My card came stock at 1200 VDDC, is that normal?
-drivers are up to date
I have a brand new sapphire 7970 'OC with Boost' and I LOVE it. Besides this problem, it's a great card. I've overclocked the card to a small 1100 core/1500 mem/1175 vddc/Board power li 20, and it ran stable with heaven/furmark/bf3/crysis3 all on ultra (again, an awesome card).
My main question is: What is it called when your monitor does that? If I had a better search term for that issue I could find a solution on my own. Feel free to give any solutions and/or reasons why it does that. I feel like I just lost the video card lottery and should leave my card at stock.
-side note: The only other instability I've had with this card was that sometimes my horloger clock app that runs on my TV monitor crashes sometimes while running a game, which minimizes my game. Is having my 42inch tv plugged into my card a bad thing? Should I plug it into my motherboard? Should I put in an old 6850 and use that to run my tv monitor?
Side question #451: My card came stock at 1200 VDDC, is that normal?